Cement News tagged under: production
Brazil: future secured?11 May 2015, Published under Cement NewsThe expansion of Brazil’s cement production base continues unabated despite storm clouds gathering on the economic horizon. However, this Latin American giant still requires the construction of infrastructure and housing to support its national development and the future of the cement industry appears guaranteed. Cimento Portland Partipações (CPP) has plans for four new cement plants. Pictured is the São Luis works, completed in November 2014 by FLSmidth. CPP is now preparing the e... |
Advance in Argentine April cement consumption11 May 2015, Published under Cement NewsIn April 2015 Argentine market demand expanded by eight per cent MoM while compared to April 2014, the figure rose by 16.7 per cent to 1,045,369t, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. Domestic cement producers delivered 1,053,939t, including exports, representing a 7.5 per cent MoM and a 16.4 per cent YoY increase. |
Vietnam Jan-April output climbs 5.3% YoY06 May 2015, Published under Cement NewsVietnam produced 19.9Mt of cement in the first four months of this year, up 5.3 per cent from a year ago, including 5.9Mt in April, the government-run General Statistics Office said. In the first quarter, Vietnam generated 14Mt of cement, compared to the earlier estimated figure of 14.3Mt. The Ministry of Construction predicted Vietnam's sales of cement and clinker to rise 1.5-4 per cent YoY to between 72-74Mt in 2015, of which domestic sales will rise 4.5-6.5 per cent to 53-54Mt, while th... |
Dominican Republic: output rises in 1Q1529 April 2015, Published under Cement NewsCement production in the Dominican Republic increased 6-7 per cent in the first quarter of 2015 after a full-year 2014 rise of 13.4 per cent, according to the country’s cement association, Adocem. It attributes the rise to the infrastructural and residential sector, particularly private investment in low-cost housing, key road infrastructure and public works. In 2014 output came close to 5Mta, up 18 per cent when compared with a production of 4.4Mta in 2013. National cement production cap... |
Double-digit growth in Kenyan demand and output28 April 2015, Published under Cement NewsKenya’s National Bureau of Statistics Data shows cement production stood at 5.88Mt in 2014, up 16.27 per cent from the 5.05Mt recorded a year earlier. Cement consumption in 2014 stood at 5.19Mt from 4.26Mt in 2013, rising by 22 per cent YoY. East African Portland Cement Co managing director, Kephar Tande, said the growth in demand of cement will continue due to the ongoing infrastructural projects. “Infrastructural projects have played a big part in the growth in demand of cement and will c... |
Egypt prices stable on surplus supply28 April 2015, Published under Cement NewsProducers in Egypt have decided to keep cement prices stable for the fifth-consecutive month, Minister of Supply, Khaled Hanafy, announced on Sunday. The price stability is due to surplus supply, Daily News Egypt quoted Medhat Staphanos, head of cement companies at the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FDI) as saying. Output has increased following the introduction of coal, which has helped alleviate the uncertainty of fuel sources. However, producers are still waiting an uptick in demand.... |
TPCC targets 1.5Mta output in 201521 April 2015, Published under Cement NewsTanzania Portland Cement (TPCC), part of the HeidelbergCement Group, said that it its production targets will not be deterred by the ongoing “illegal importation” of cement into the east African country. The firm's managing director, Alfonso Rodriguez, said that the company will produce 1.5Mta this year, up from 1.4Mta in 2014. The increased capacity follows last year's commissioning of a new 0.8Mta mill. "We managed to produce approximately 1.4Mt last year but that was not what we had... |
Ahangarancement produces 400,500t of cement in 1Q, Uzbekistan20 April 2015, Published under Cement NewsAhangarancement JSC, part of the Eurocement Group, produced 400,500t of cement in the first quarter of 2015, according to data released by its parent company. In the reporting period, the plant produced 242,489t of clinker. Shipments over the Jan-March 2015 period reached 388,397t, exceeding the target figure by 11 per cent. |
Production accounting20 April 2015, Published under Cement NewsDr Clark muses on the complications of cement production accounting and the estimation of the physical inventory stocks of in-process materials. The monitoring and accounting for physical inventories is not without challenges February’s Cemtech Middle East and Africa in Dubai was again an informative event enjoyed by all participants. For the moderator it was a particularly busy time as a three-day technical workshop was delivered for 26 people from cement companies in Angola, I... |
Peru cement sales down 1%, exports up 50% in March17 April 2015, Published under Cement NewsPeru’s cement dispatches fell one per cent YoY to 806,000t in March as public spending was down and rains affected the construction industry, according to cement association Asocem. Regional and municipal governments saw their spending cut by 30 and 61 per cent, respectively. Output in the country’s cement plants increased two per cent to 861,000t when compared with March 2014. A 50 per cent rise in exports in the month helped producers to compensate for the lower domestic sales. Looking ... |