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Gharibwal Cement vows to continue the BMR project

27 November 2023, Published under Cement News

Gharibwal Cement Ltd in Pakistan has arranged a corporate briefing session on the FY22-23 and 1QFY23-24. To recall, the company posted a profit after tax of PKR1.232bn (US$4.311m) in FY22-23 vis-à-vis PKR1.355bn in FY21-22. BMR Projects – existing line Top officials outlined the company's balancing, modernisation and replacement (BMR) programme at its 2.11Mta plant in Jehlum, Punjab. A 10MW solar plant is under negotiation with various vendors and a letter of credit (LC) facility is in ha...

Oman Cement’s profits swell

22 November 2023, Published under Cement News

In the first nine months of 2023, Oman Cement Co (SAOG) ( Hauxin Cement Group ) earned profit after tax of OMR7.355m (US$19.1m), compared to OMR4.638m in the corresponding period of the previous year, marking growth of 59 per cent YoY. According to the company, it has continued its efforts to overcome the adverse impact of the rise in prices of some major cost elements, and extensive efforts have been made in this direction in the current period, with better cost management and sustained e...

IKN cooler close to commissioning at Malogoszcz plant

16 November 2023, Published under Cement News

Commissioning of the new IKN cooler at the Malogoszcz cement plant in Poland is about to start. After the start-up, this new modern clinker production line will replace the three existing lines and reduce the plant’s CO 2 emissions by 20per cent and energy consumption by 33 per cent. The Malogoszcz plant’s new clinker line will have a capacity of 3700tpd. Holcim 's US$100m modernisation project at the Polish plant includes a new, more efficient installation of alternative fuels. This ...

Dandot Cement is still under BMR

08 November 2023, Published under Cement News

For the quarter that ended 30 September 2023, Pakistan’s Dandot Cement Co Ltd incurred a loss of PKR69m (US$0.24m) as it remained under the modernisation phase and posted no revenue during the accounting period. No sales were reported. Dandot Cement Chairman, Muhammad Farooq Naseem, and CEO, Taha Muhammad Naseem, have optimistically reported that the company plans to come into production before the end of the calendar year 2023 with an emphasis on the balancing modernisation of replacem...

Domicem commissions new kiln, doubles capacity 

25 October 2023, Published under Cement News

Domicem , a subsidiary of Colacem SpA (Italy), commissioned a new kiln line at Sabana Grande de Palenque , San Cristóbal province, in the Dominican Republic, on 13 October 2023.  The US$120m expansion consisted of a 3500tpd kiln line and doubles cement capacity at the existing plant to 3.8Mta. The project, which was first announced in March 2021, was executed by by Sinoma CBMI Construction (China).  Domicem first entered the Dominican Republic in 2005 with the launch of its first...

Dandot Cement Co will start trial production soon

19 October 2023, Published under Cement News

Dandot Cement Co Ltd  ( 3 Star Group ), while providing an update about the Balancing Modernisation of Replacements (BMR) of 504,000t of its cement plant at Jehlum in Punjab, Pakistan, to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), expressed hope that the trial production is scheduled to commence soon after the equipment testing and commissioning phase. The company will resume its commercial operations in the current quarter. Upon completing the BMR programme, the company aims to achieve enhan...

H&M Construction Co to build GCC K3 Odessa expansion project

29 August 2023, Published under Cement News

H&M Construction Co, Inc has been selected by GCC to be the design-builder of its new K3 pyroprocessing expansion at the Odessa , Texas, USA facility. GCC, a leading producer of cement and concrete in the US and Mexico, recently announced that it will execute a capacity expansion at the Odessa plant, increasing its cement production capacity by over 1Mta and lowering the plant’s greenhouse gas intensity by 13 per cent. As part of the design-build scope, H&M will work closely with GC...

Dalmia's Umrangso modernisation to use KHD technology

12 July 2023, Published under Cement News

Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd  (DCBL) has awarded Humboldt Wedag India a contract for a new 9500tpd clinker line at its plant in Umrangso , Assam, in northeastern India. The project includes a range of best-available decarbonisation technologies, including roller press grinding technology for raw material preparation and a six-stage preheater with Pyroclon calciner, providing the best potential for waste heat recovery. The new line will be notable for its high utilisation of alternative fue...

Cemcor completes upgrade work

14 June 2023, Published under Cement News

Cemcor has completed the upgrade work on its Cookstown plant in Northern Ireland, UK. Following the company's acquisition of the plant, it committed GBP6m (US$7.54m/EUR6.98m) to replace the electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) with a state-of-the-art bag filter at the plant. Within 14 months from final design agreement in March 2022, the new bag filter was commissioned and operational by May 2023. This investment project is centred around the abatement filter, with the filter separated ...

Lucky to add a new clinker line of 1.82Mt in Iraq

19 May 2023, Published under Cement News

GM Finance and Company Secretary, Faisal Mahmood, of Lucky Cement Ltd  ( Yunus Brothers Group ) informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on 18 May that the company has made a 1.82Mta expansion plan with its joint venture partner in Samawah, Iraq, taking the total capacity under its clinker production company Najmah Al Samawah to 3.13Mta.  It will coincide with the increasing cement demands in Iraq. The management expects the plant to be completed in 18 months, as per PSX notice, after...