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FLSmidth to supply new grinding mill to Sebryakovcement
13 August 2021Russia: Denmark-based FLSmidth has won a contract with Sebryakovcement for the supply of a grinding mill for its Sebrakovsky cement plant in Volgograd Oblast. The mill will have a capacity of 175t/hr. The supplier plans to commission the mill in 2023.
Kaluga Cement Plant to auction site
13 August 2021Russia: Kaluga Cement Plant has put its unfinished cement plant in Kaluga Oblast up for auction. AK & M News has reported that the auctioneer has valued the site at US$374,000, with a reserve of just US$243,000. The reason for the sale is the bankruptcy of Kaluga Cement Plant.
SLK Cement celebrates employees on Builders’ Day
11 August 2021Russia: SLK Cement has thanked its employees for their ‘conscientious work and professionalism’ through another challenging year on Builders’ Day, a public holiday for construction and cement sector workers, on 11 August 2021. AIF News has reported that the producer gave out 130 awards on the occasion. The governor and legislative assembly of Sverdlovsk Oblast joined the company in writing letters of gratitude to the workforce.
Russia: Sibirsky Cement has appointed Dmitry Kireev as the managing director of the Krasnoyarsk cement plant and Vladimir Afanasin as the managing director of the Angarskcement plant.
Kireev worked at Sibirsky Cement’s Topkinsky cement plant from 2001 until 2013, eventually becoming the director for equipment maintenance and repair. He was then appointed as the managing director of TimlyuiCement before becoming the head of the Angarskcement plant in 2016. He is a graduate of the Belgorod Technological Institute of Building Materials and the Kuzbass State Technical University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Moscow International Higher School of Business (MIRBIS).
Afanasin became the deputy chief engineer at the Topkinsky cement plant in 2007. He later worked at Krasnoyarsk cement plant until 2011 as the chief engineer, technical director and the production director. In 2011, he became the head of Angarskcement and then managed the Krasnoyarsk cement plant from 2016. Afanasin is a graduate of the Belgorod Technological Institute of Building Materials and holds an MBA from MIRBIS.
SLK Cement to open new terminal at Korkino plant
21 July 2021Russia: SLK Cement is preparing to open a new terminal at its integrated plant in Korkino plant in Chelyabinsk Oblast. The unit will have a cement capacity of 250t/hr for despatch by railway and road. The subsidiary of Italy-based Buzzi Unicem has invested around US$3.4m in the project.
SKL Cement wins oil well cement supply contract
14 July 2021Russia: Rosneft subsidiary Vostsibneftegaz contracted SLK Cement to supply over 8000t of oil well cement to its Yurubcheno-Tokhomsk oilfield in Krasnoyark region in late 2020. The subsidiary of Italy-based Buzzi Unicem provided PZT I-G-CC-1 type oil well cement and shipped it by rail and road. It says that the oilfield is among its target markets in Ural district, alongside the Tyumensk, Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamal-Nenets oilfields.
India: Ambuja Cements and ACC are planning to participate in parent company LafargeHolcim’s ‘Plants of Tomorrow’ programme. The initiative, which aims to make cement manufacturing more efficient through better plant optimisation, higher plant availability and a safer working environment, is part of LafargeHolcim’s ‘Building for Growth’ strategy, which was launched globally in mid-2019.
The four-year programme implemented by LafargeHolcim aims to create a global network of over 270 integrated cement plants and grinding stations in more than 50 countries by applying automation technologies and robotics, machine learning, predictive maintenance and digital twin technologies to the entire production processes. The ‘Plants of Tomorrow’ initiative is also being implemented in other key markets in Switzerland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, US, Canada and Russia.
“As an industry leader we are looking at 'Plants of Tomorrow’ as a big opportunity and responsibility to place India on the map of global cement manufacturing. This path-breaking project will lead to transformative outcomes not just in terms of operational and financial gains but also make cement manufacturing in the country environmentally sustainable and create a safe work environment for our colleagues across all our plants,” said Neeraj Akhoury, the chief executive officer (CEO) of India Holcim and managing director and CEO of Ambuja Cements.
Russia: Chrysotile producer Uralasbestcement has acquired a 54% stake in Belgorodasbestcement via its subsidiary Asbotsemizdelie. Belgorodasbestcement produces chrysotile or white asbestos cement products for domestic sale and export, according to the AK&M Information Agency.
Russia: Mikhailovsky Building Material Works (Mikhailovsky KSM), part of Smikom Group, has received conditional approval to acquire Eurocement. Interfax has reported that the Federal Antimonopoly Service made its approval on a number of conditions including the requirement that Mikhailovsky KSM submits to it a quarterly performance report. If prices rise by more than 5% in a month then the company will be required to explain why to the regulator. The producer will also be obliged to fulfil any existing contracts and preserve the technological capability of its production base.
Eurocement currently holds a 35% market share in Central district, the region where Mikhailovsky KSM produces its building materials.
Uzbekistan: Cyprus-based Lamanka Enterprises has acquired an 84% stake in Akhangarantsement. The value of the deal was US$52.5m, according to the Ria news agency. In early March 2021 Russia-based Eurocement put its 84% share in the Uzbek cement producer on sale. The company operates the second largest integrated plant in the country.