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Tongling Shangfeng to enter Kyrgyzstan

13 August 2014, Published under Cement News

Tongling Shangfeng Cement, a subsidiary of Gansu Shangfeng Cement, has signed a letter of intent to acquire an equity stake in Zeth Cement of Kyrgyzstan. The Chinese-based company aims to join forces with investor Zhu Rongjun to develop a cement and clinker line with a capacity of 3000tpd. Tongling Shangfeng will have a 58 per cent stake in Zeth while Zhu will hold the remaining 42 per cent.

Pokot factory nearing construction phase, Kenya

07 August 2014, Published under Cement News

Construction is expected to start on the Pokot Cement Factory as the establishment of preliminary facilities gets underway. Governor of West Pokot, Simon Kachapin, said that the Indian investors behind the factory have been allowed to start setting up associated facilities such as housing for the workers who will construct the plant. The new 1.2Mta plant is being established by Cemtech Ltd, a subsidiary of the Sanghi Group of India. As part of the project, the group will also set up a 6...

Mongolia: Senj Sant receives EBRD loan

05 August 2014, Published under Cement News

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed a deal to loan Senj Sant US$65m for a new greenfield cement plant in southern Mongolia, about 450km from the capital Ulaanbaatar. The agreement, signed at a ceremony recently by EBRD First Vice President Phil Bennett, follows an earlier US$20m equity investment for a stake in Senj Sant agreed in May 2013. “This project represents yet another step towards the diversification of Mongolia’s economy,” Mr Bennett said at the...

McInnis Cement completes financing for Port-Daniel plant, Canada

04 August 2014, Published under Cement News

McInnis Cement has announced the completion of the financial structure for its cement plant in Gaspé, Canada. National Bank of Canada, as sole bookrunner of the bank syndicate, has confirmed the availability of a US$360m loan for the project. This amount is in addition to the US$500m in equity from private and public investors including the joint venture formed by the groupe Beaudier and La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, as well as the participation of Investissement Québec (IQ). ...

Talks held on proposed Russian Karachay-Cherkessia plant

29 July 2014, Published under Cement News

Rashid Temrezov, the head of Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, and Filaret Galchev, a member of the board of directors of Eurocement Group, are in talks for the construction of a cement factory in Karachay-Cherkessia.  The new plant is slated to have a capacity of 4Mta. (Source: Vestnik Kavkaza)

SCG: second-quarter earnings drop expected, outlook upbeat

17 July 2014, Published under Cement News

Siam Cement, Thailand’s largest industrial conglomerate and leading cement producer, is expected to report a 10.5 per cent drop in second-quarter earnings, according to KGI Securities. The decline is mainly attributed to falling regional demand for chemical products. KGI analyst Nat Panassutrakorn has revised down his full-year net profit forecast by 8.2 per cent to THB34.5bn (US$1.1bn), but is more upbeat about longer-term prospects. "Revival in local confidence, quick disbursement fr...

Diamond Cement’s new Congo works on track for 2Q15 start

14 July 2014, Published under Cement News

The construction of Diamond Cement’s plant in Mindouli in the Republic of Congo is now around 40 per cent complete and is on-track for completion in the second quarter of 2015.  The new works will have a cement production of 0.6Mta in the first stage, with the option to expand this to 1Mta. Once completed, Congo will have three cement works, including the 0.3Mta Sonnoc-based Loutété in Bouenza and Forspak’s 0.3Mta Dolisie Niari works. At Hinda, in the department of Kouiou, a further ce...

Mexico: Cementos Fortaleza plant to be inaugurated next week

04 July 2014, Published under Cement News

Mexichem, Elementia and Lafarge will inaugurate the first plant of Cementos Fortaleza on Tuesday, 8 July 2014. The event will be led by Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, and Carlos Slim Helú, head of Grupo Carso. The new works is located in Santiago de Anaya, Hidalgo, and is expected to produce 2Mta. Cementos Fortaleza is a strategic alliance between Elementia, which holds 53 per cent of shares, and Lafarge, which holds the balance.

Eurocement signs Uzbekistan supply contract

01 July 2014, Published under Cement News

Eurocement has signed a US$128m contract with China CAMC Engineering, a unit of Sinomach, for the supply of equipment, as well as design, installation, and training for a new cement plant in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan, the group said in a statement Monday. The plant will have a projected cement capacity of 2.4Mta and will be launched in 2016. It will be operated under Eurocement’s local Uzbek subsidiary, Akhangaran Cement. In May, Eurocement Group signed a US$500m equipment supply c...

GCR affirms ARM Cement's ratings, outlook Stable

30 June 2014, Published under Cement News

Global Credit Ratings (GCR) has today affirmed the national scale ratings assigned to ARM Cement Ltd of A(KE) and A1(KE) in the long term and short term respectively. The outlook is Stable. GCR said the Kenyan cement producer's well-entrenched position in the East African cement industry has been augmented by an aggressive roll-out of capacity in the past five years. With the completion of the Tanga plant in Tanzania later this year, ARM will secure clinker sufficiency in FY14/FY15, which...