Taiheiyo selected to Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index
Taiheiyo Cement was selected for the fourth consecutive year as a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia/Pacific Index (DJSI Asia Pacific) in 2017. The index is the ...
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Mitsubishi Materials withdraws from China market
Mitsubishi Cement plans to pull out of the Chinese cement market as tighter environmental regulations take their toll and the supply glut hurts the company’s profitability, acc...
Fiji: Japanese clinker arrives at Suva Port
Pacific Basin's bulk carrier Port Botany from Japan arrived in Suva Port in Fiji yesteday ahead of its job of unloading 26,000t of clinker. The vessel will discharge its clink...
Japan: finding new ways
Since the last decade of the 20th century, Japan has been stuck in a deflationary economic spiral, but now a fragile growth is emerging. While the country finds new ways to pro...
Going alternative in Japan
With Japanese cement demand falling over the past 20 years, Sumitomo Osaka Cement has constantly evolved its cement manufacturing processes. As a result, the company’s Ako inte...
Sumitomo Osaka Cement reports 4.4% rise in 1H net profit
Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co saw a 4.5 per cent YoY fall in revenues from JPY115.65bn (US$1.11bn) to JPY110.44bn in the first half ended 30 September 2016. While its pretax prof...
Sumitomo Osaka 1.4Mt coal consumption in 2015
Japanese cement manufacturer Sumitomo Osaka Cement reported that it had consumed 1.41Mt of coal for the fiscal year 2015 (year end 31 March 2016). This figure is a 2.7 per cent...
Tokyo Cement Ube Industries deal
Tokyo Cement Group (Lanka) Plc has signed a deal on 1 August with Japanese company Ube Industries Ltd, for the import of raw materials and technical support to produce cement. ...
Japan: Taiheiyo Cement to set up subsidiary for biomass plant
Taiheiyo Cement will spend JPY23.5bn (US$224m) to set up a biomass power plant at a cement production site in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, Japan. An electricity-wholesaling subsi...
Japan: Taiheiyo Cement plans 75MW biomass power plant
Japan's Taiheiyo Cement will construct a biomass-fired unit with 75MW in Ofuna Factory, Iwate prefecture. The new unit is understood to burn domestic and imported biomass fuel....