17 November 2015
Sagar Cements reports 3% rise in October 2015 production 17 November 2015
India: Sagar Cements cement production in October 2015 rose by 3% year-on-year to 96,247t and its cement sales rose by 7% to 99,918t.
China: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has unveiled a document to ask cement companies in north China to carry out peak-shifting production on a trial basis in the winter. The peak-shifting production will not only ease the 'haze weather,' but also enhance the cement market and reduce producers' costs, according to industry insiders.
Due to fierce market competition, cement enterprises in north China produce cement at full capacity in the winter to seize the opportunity when the energy supplies end and building operations start. However, in the summer, many enterprises are forced to produce at half of their installed capacity due to the glut of cement on the market. As the cement industry is a high energy-consumption industry, the overlap of cement production and energy supply in winter increases coal consumption and leads to haze weather in north China. If peak production were carried out in winter for four months, about 4.36Mt of coal and 177bnm3 of flue gas emissions would be cut in the whole northern area, which could help improve the local environment. The peak-shifting production could also help ease overcapacity.
After the peak-shifting, cement enterprises in north and northeast China will suspend production for four to five months in winter and the overcapacity rate in the domestic cement industry will fall to 16 – 21% from the current 51%, which would help enhance the industrial climate.
Shree Cement's net profit jumps by 18% 17 November 2015
India: Shree Cement's net profit rose by 18.3% year-on-year to US$19.5m in the quarter that ended on 30 September 2015 and its total income increased by 6.79% to US$265m.
Claudius Peters' ETA Cooler exceeds 13,000t/day in China 17 November 2015
China: The ETA Cooler, the concept for cooling clinker in the cement making process announced by Claudius Peters Projects GmbH in 2004, has reached a new capacity milestone with a more than 13,000t/day model going into production earlier in 2015 in China.
The ETA Cooler principle was introduced in 2004 with a 2000t/day installation at a Holcim cement plant in Switzerland. Over the last decade, Claudius Peters Projects has progressively offered the market increasingly higher capacity models. It has now reached 13,000t/day, currently the world's highest capacity cement line production. The company has said that even higher capacity is feasible.
Due to its design, no dust removal system is required with ETA Cooler and the relatively long stroke action means a low grate speed, which in turn means less wear and maintenance. As there are no obstructions to the clinker flow in this moving floor technology, high transport efficiency is also achieved, with uniform cooling, thus improving the quality of the clinker and in turn the quality of cement produced, according to Claudius Peters Projects. The ETA Cooler has a very low construction profile and modular design, allowing it to be retrofit to existing cement plants.
FLSmidth Airtech opens Turkey office 17 November 2015
Turkey: FLSmidth Airtech - Air Pollution Control, opened its new office in Istanbul on 13 November 2015. Customers, partners and suppliers from the industry participated in the reception. The office is regional and will service the Turkish market and neighboring countries such as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Middle East and North Africa. FLS Airtech has served the Turkish cement and steel industry with more than 200 reference state-of-the-art solutions in air pollution control.
Loesche mills ordered for Nova Cimangola SA cement plant in Angola 17 November 2015
Angola: Sinoma International has ordered Loesche's complete grinding series for the Nova Cimangola SA cement plant in Luanda, Angola. These will be the first Loesche vertical roller mills in the country.
The order includes one cement raw material mill of the type LM 48.4 with a capacity of 400t/hr and two cement mills of the type LM 46.2+2 C/S which are designed to have a capacity of 150t/hr each. Loesche's coal mill of the type LM 24.20 DC completes the order. Further equipment like rotary star feeders, metal detectors, the engineering for the cyclones, classifier motors and the control system are also in Loesche's scope of supply, as well as a two-year operation spare parts contract.
The coal mill and the cement raw material mill are scheduled to start operation in the middle of 2016. The cement mills will follow with a production start by the end of 2016.