Saudi Arabia: Yamama Cement secures US$266m for new plant
Saudi Arabia's Yamama Cement Company has secured SAR1bn (US$266.6m) to partially fund the building of a new plant, it said on Monday. The three-year financing includes SAR75...
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United States: Drake Cement’s Paulden plant seeking to expand clinker production
Drake Cement has submitted an application to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to increase clinker production at its Paulden plant from 660,000tpa to 726,000tpa. ...
Nigeria: BUA Group to offer incentives to cement distributors
BUA Group, the conglomerate which owns the Cement Company of Northern Nigeria, is to offer incentives of NGN100m (US$0.3m) to cement distributors who exceed their sales targets...
Pakistan: Bestway Cement joins bidding for Dewan Cement assets
Bestway Cement Ltd has informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on 30 Dec that it is considering acquiring the northern plant and related assets of Dewan Cement Ltd in Pakistan. ...
Iran: gas outages halt production
Operations at cement plants in Iran have been disrupted by continuous gas outages every winter, according the the head of the Cement Employers Association (CEA), Mohammed Ataba...
Siam Cement predicts high demand for cement next year
Demand for cement in the Asean region is expected to rise further in 2017, according to Siam Cement Group (SCG) President and CEO, Roongrote Rangsiyopash. Rangsiyopash argue...
India: demonetisation stalls Indian cement recovery
Cement demand is unlikely to recover for another year due to demonetisation and an increase in prices for diesel and pet coke that has placed cost pressures on most cement make...
Vietnam slows down cement capacity development
The Vietnamese cement sector has 20Mta overcapacity and must now slow down the pace of investment into new cement production, the government has decided. Vietnam’s cement in...
Shree Cement Ltd to construct 5Mta plant in Bengal
Shree Cement is planning a 5Mta cement plant and a 20MW captive power plant at the villages of Parbatpur and Digha, Tehsil Raghunathpur, dist. Purulia, West Bengal. A railway s...
Ultratech to expand Chittorgarh limestone mine
UltraTech Cement, India, has proposed an expansion of the Aditya limestone mining project at Tehsil Chittorgarh and Nimbahera, district Chittorgarh, Rajasthan from 10Mta to 13....
Mechel, Russia, to supply 2-3Mt thermal coal to Tangshan Jidong
On December 21, Mechel 0A0, a major metals and resource company in Russia, announced it had inked a supply contract with Tangshan Jidong Cement Co., Ltd., China for thermal coa...
Nigeria: BUA Group to use local coal deposits at Sokoto
Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN), owned by the BUA Group, will use coal from local mines in Sokoto to generate power for its new 1.5Mta cement plant located in the nor...
Shri Ram Industries commissions kiln in Jammu and Kashimir
Shri Ram Industries has commissioned an integrated plant at Battal Ballian, district Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir. The factory consists of 150tpd clinker and 220tpd cement capac...
Pakistan: Kohat Cement interest in Dewan Cement
Kohat Cement Company Ltd has joined the race to acquire Dewan Cement’s North plant, a 1.134Mta facility located at Hattar industrial estate in northern Pakistan. The company ...
India: Prism Cement sees losses shrink for 1HFY17
Prism Cement has released its financial results for the first half of its trading year, which began on 1 April, revealing a loss of INR50.62m (US$0.75m) over the six-month peri...
Vietnam: Ha Tien 1 ordered to relocate
The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee has demanded Ha Tien 1 Cement cease operation of its Thu Duc cement grinding station and relocate the plant. The company earli...
Algeria: Prime Minister urges greater exports to Africa
Algeria's Prime Minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, inaugurated the 25th Algerian Production Fair (FPA) and visited a number of its pavilions stressed the need to diversify the nation...
Russia: Mechel to supply 2-3Mt coal to Tangshan Jidong
Russian metals and resource company, Mechel OAO, announced it has signed a contract for the supply of 2-3Mt of thermal coal to Tangshan Jidong Cement Co. The contract term, ...
Ireland: EPA to weigh in on Limerick plans
Limerick Council has engaged consultants with a view to making an unprecedented submission over Irish Cement’s EUR10m Mungret plans, which will see fossil fuels replaced by the...
Clinker imports to Angola decreased 13% in 2Q16
Clinker imports into Angola fell by 13.2 per cent in 2Q16 to 176,678t when compared with the same period in 2015, when the country imported 200,000t of clinker. Turkey imported...
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