28 June 2016
Bedeschi to build terminal for Sönmez Çimento 28 June 2016
Turkey: Bedeschi has been awarded a contract by Sönmez Çimento to help build a clinker and cement export terminal with a loading capacity up to 1000t/hr. The terminal will serve a new 1.7Mt/yr integrated cement plant being built by Sönmez Çimento in the Adana Yumurtalık Free Zone. A slewing, luffing and travelling type shiploader will be installed at the plant’s port terminal.
Oman: Raysut Cement Company’s new cement terminal at the Port of Duqm is likely to start operations in the third quarter of 2016, according to an official at the Port of Duqm Company. Reggy Vermeulen, the port’s CEO, told the Oman Tribune that the unit is currently at the pre-trial stage and the firm and various authorities, including Royal Oman Police, are testing equipment at the facility, including that used for fire-fighting. Once this process is over, trials will take place in the third quarter of 2016 and operations could start in the same quarter.
Japan: Taiheiyo Cement plans to build a 75MW biomass plant at its Ofunato cement plant in Iwate prefecture. The new unit will burn both domestic and imported biomass fuel. The new power plant will replace units damaged at the site during the earthquake in 2011. As such Iwate prefecture has decided there would be no requirement for a new environmental assessment.
Georgia: Construction has started on a new US$120m cement plant in Senaki, Samegrelo. The project, Black Sea Cement, is a joint venture between China’s Hualing Group and a Georgian construction company. The plant will have a clinker production capacity of 0.9Mt/yr and a cement production capacity of 1.5Mt/yr. It is expected to create over 500 jobs. Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili launched construction of the plant on 25 June 2016.