Cement News tagged under: new plant
India: Rashmi Group to invest USD24m in new plant06 April 2015, Published under Cement NewsRashmi Group (India) intends to invest INR1.5bn (USD24m) to increase cement capacity at its 0.2Mta Jhargram grinding plant in West Bengal. The company is increasing its investment into steel products at Kharagpur and aims to use slag produced from the steel plant for cement production at the nearby Jhargram plant. |
Proposed Lebanon plant to be relocated02 April 2015, Published under Cement NewsA cement factory that was set to be built in Zahle, Lebanon, will be relocated to another area, according to reports by the Daily Star (Lebanon). The planned cement factory, which has been met with widespread opposition for Zahle residents and officials over health and environmental concerns, will now be relocated after an agreement was reached with the head of the project, Pierre Fattouch, Archbishop of the Greek Catholic diocese of Zahle and Forzol Issam Darwish announced in a news co... |
Joint-venture agreement signed for new Nepalese plant18 March 2015, Published under Cement NewsChina’s Hongshi Holdings Group on Tuesday signed a joint-venture (JV) agreement with Shivam Holdings Nepal to set up a NPR30bn (US$297m) cement factory. Hongshi Holdings will invest NPR21bn (70 per cent) in the project while the Nepali partner will inject NPR9bn. The JV will be named Hongshi-Shivam Cement Private Limited. An agreement to this effect was signed by Vishwonath Goel, chairman of Shivam Holdings, and Xu Youyuan, executive vice-president of Hongshi Holdings, in Kathmandu on ... |
Dangote’s Zambian plant due to start operations by month-end13 March 2015, Published under Cement NewsDangote Cement’s Zambian cement plant is scheduled to start operations at the end of this month, group CEO, Aliko Dangote, has said. Speaking to journalists shortly after touring the plant, Mr Dangote explained that floods triggered by heavy rain and bureaucracy in acquiring a permit from the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) caused delays in the commissioning of the 1.5Mta cement plant. “There was a delay of getting a permit from ZEMA, which actually made us start production ... |
Making cement on the steppes11 March 2015, Published under Cement NewsHeidelbergCement’s new 0.8Mta Shetpe cement plant is situated in the western Kazakhstan steppe and surrounded by wilderness. The only inhabitants nearby are the 8000 people living in the village of Shetpe and the workers who reside in the camp’s 110 rooms. Officially inaugurated last year, the Shetpe plant is the first cement factory in the west of the central Asian country, where oil fields have been the main source of industrial activity for decades. Now the landscape has both a new cement... |
Jaipur plant proposals, India10 March 2015, Published under Cement NewsFive new cement plants will be set up in Jaipur, the largest city of the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, with a total production capacity of around 3Mta. The mines department has issued a letter of intent (LOI) to the firms and submitted the application for approval from the Union government. Three LOI have been given for blocks at Chittorgarh while two are issued for the blocks in Jaisalmer district. The proposal of all the five blocks have been sent to Geological Survey of India (GS... |
SCG Indonesia on course to launch operations in 3Q1505 March 2015, Published under Cement NewsSCG Indonesia, part of SCG Cement is set to launch operations of its first cement plant in Indonesia during the third quarter of the year. The US$356m cement plant, situated in Sukabumi, West Java, is slated to produce as much as 1.8Mta, SCG Indonesia country director Nantapong Chantrakul told reporters in Jakarta on Tuesday. The plant’s products, all of which will be sold locally, will enable SCG Indonesia’s cement operations to sustain itself without imported products from Thailand. “Mo... |
DG Khan eyes new Pakistan plant construction20 February 2015, Published under Cement NewsDG Khan plans to build a US$300m near Karachi as economic growth boosts cement demand in Pakistan. “There will be a shortage domestically in three years if there is 10 per cent growth in demand each year,” Inayat Ullah Niazi, CEO of DG Khan, told Bloomberg in an interview. The new plant near Hub, a city west of Karachi will produce about 2-2.5Mta of cement, Niazi said. Construction is slated for completion in late 2018. Some 40 per cent of the project will be financed through internal... |
Hoang Phat Vissai Group kicks off plant construction, Vietnam06 February 2015, Published under Cement NewsHoang Phat Vissai Group has started construction of Song Lam cement plant in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An. Located in Bai Son commune, the 18,000tpd works will be developed into two phases, the first of which will be completed within 18 months, according to chairman Nguyen Ngoc Oanh. Phase one will span the 2015-17 period and involve the construction of two production lines with a combined clinker capacity of 12,000tpd. The second phase involving 6000tpd of clinker will be develop... |
Qatari group expresses interest in Ethiopian plant construction22 January 2015, Published under Cement NewsA Qatari business group led by Sheikh Fahad Ahmed M T Al Thani has expressed an interest in constructing a cement plant in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, as part of a series of investments across various sectors in the African country. AllAfrica news reported that during a meeting with Ethiopia’s president Mulatu Teshome last week, Mr Al Thani said he had visited various investment sites and plans to launch four projects worth around US$500m including the cement plant. Mr Teshome stressed tha... |