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Oman: Tanfeedh, the National Programme for Enhancing Economic Diversification, is calling for captive coal power stations to be used to support new cement plants that are being planned for the Duqm special economic zone. The programme wants two Ordinary Portland Cement plants and a white cement plant to be built in the zone to reduce imports, according to the Oman Daily Observer newspaper. It also wants investors to build one cement grinding plants in Duqm and one in Suhar. Tanfeedh says that the country used 9Mt of cement in 2015 but that only 44% came from local producers.
UK: Aggregate Industries has launched six new products in its Lafarge Cement range. The additions include Super White Cement and Sulfate Resistant Portland fly ash cement as well as Concrete Mix, Postmix and Mortar Mix blends, and Hydrated Lime. The new products join the LafargeHolcim subsidiary’s already established Lafarge General Purpose Cement range.
Adana Çimento places order for Loesche cement mill
20 April 2016Turkey: Adana Çimento has placed an order for a Loesche cement mill for its Adana cement plant in Turkey. The LM 46.4 vertical roller mill with a transmission power of 2750kW is used for grinding 200t/hour of raw material to white cement. The material will be ground to a fineness of 8% R 90µm. A period of nine months will be allowed for delivery so that the Loesche roller mill will be put into operation during the fourth quarter in 2016.
Previously, Adana Çimento ordered a Loesche mill of type LM 53.3+3 CS for grinding clinker and slag at its Iskenderun cement grinding plant in 2007. Adana Çimento is a subsidiary company of the Oyak Group.
‘White Cement Outlook 2020’ report published
16 December 2015World: A multi-client market report by OneStone Consulting S.L., of Barcelona, Spain was released on 15 December 2015.
According to the report, the global white cement market has seen a recovery after some years of slow growth. "The global annual growth rates are projected to increase from 2.5% in 2010 - 2015 to an average annual growth of 3.8% by 2020, with lowest growth in China," said research analyst Joe Harder. In 2015, global trade was improving. However, capacity utilisation rates of many producers remained low. New projects are in the pipeline, overcapacity issues will continue, prices continue to be under pressure and the global trade share is forecaste to decline.
The White Cement Outlook 2020 report analyses the global white cement industry. The data includes global and regional markets, market trends, the installed production base of all producers, regional market shares of the major producers, net trade and total trade, regional imports and exports, consumption by countries, market drivers, price trends, economies of scale and various benchmarks of the top producers, including Aalborg, Birla White, Çimsa, Federal White, JK White, RAK White and Sotacib. In the new report the latest data is available with data sets for 2015. The market report provides a five-year projection with an outlook of the market by 2020, including regional production and consumption, per capita consumption cement trade, cement capacities and a number of identified white cement projects.
US Cement white cement plant project moving ahead in Texas
23 November 2015US: The Brady City Council has voted to authorise two proposed sales tax rebate incentives for a US Cement proposed white cement plant and quarry that would be built in McCulloch, Texas.
The city sales tax rebate economic development incentive for the proposed plant would not exceed US$297,000 over nine years, or up to US$33,000/yr. The Brady Economic Development Corporation incentive would be a one-time payment of US$250,000, plus US$34,000 up to nine years, which would be a total package of US$556,000 over 10 years. The vote passed 4-1.
The council has authorised the city's Director of Community Services and EDC Director Peter Lamont to pursue negotiations with US Cement before it goes back to the city council for final approval. "I'm sure that there will be some back and forth on some of the qualifications," said Lamont. "Once we get all the language, terms and conditions and all the attorneys agree, it will be brought to the council for final approval."
Some of the qualifications are that US Cement generates a plant and quarry that improves the property value of its location by US$175m and provides 200 permanent, full-time jobs. There will have to be a 100ft buffer zone away from anything it doesn't own and the plant will have to purchase all of its natural gas from the city.
Those opposed to the cement plant are not against the plant itself, but where it will be located. There are 37 homes within 3000ft of the proposed plant and residents are worried about strobe lighting, blasting in the quarry, noise and dust pollution, truck traffic, emissions and a decrease in property values.
"We still have hope that Royal White Cement (the parent company of US Cement) will look for another piece of property," said Dale Matthews, an Austin-based attorney who is helping the opposition. "That there will be no approval of the incentive package if they insist on this location and find one that isn't disruptive to the people living here." Lamont said that finding another location will be up to US Cement and at present, there are no active offers of other properties on the table.
Grey and white cement sales down in Tunisia
07 August 2015Tunisia: According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Energy, grey cement production grew by 0.99% year-on-year to 4.75Mt in the first six months of 2015 from 4.7Mt in the first half of 2014. The amount sold locally fell by 6.29% 3.73Mt, compared to 3.98Mt in the first half 2014. Exports increased by 33.8% from 722,248t to 966,095t. In the first half of 2015, white cement production fell by 11.1% to 222,408t from 250,096t in the same period in 2014. Local sales of white cement fell by 6.69% to 96,551t from 103,476 in 2014.
White cement production down 11.5%
15 June 2015Tunisia: According to the African Manager website, white cement production in Tunisia fell by 11.5% to 141,000t in the first four months of 2015 compared with 160,000t in the same period in 2014. According to deputy director of construction materials industries at the Ministry of Industry Taoufik Khardani, white cement sales fell by 8.8% to 59,000t during the period, down from 64,500t in 2014. Some 87,400t of white cement was exported in the first four months of 2015 compared to 102,400t in 2014.
ACICO Cement launches new white cement line
01 April 2015Kuwait: ACICO Cement has launched new production lines for interlock tiles and white cement in response to the increasing local market demand.
ACICO Cement's CEO Ahmad Al-Khaled announced that the step came within the strategic plan that aims to place ACICO in the leading position among various construction materials manufacturers. "The new production lines came in response to the great need for these products in the local market, for both public and private projects," said Al-Khaled.
Al-Khaled said that white cement now accounts for 25% of the company's total production. "There is a demand from the government and private sides, especially from the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Housing," said Al-Khaled. "Despite the rise in diesel prices, which affected our transport costs by 60 – 70%, ACICO did not raise the prices of its products. We expect the government to continue subsidies on diesel," said Al-Khaled.
Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi officially opens new Italcementi Rezzato production line
05 November 2014Italy: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi officially switched on the new kiln at the Italcementi cement plant in Rezzato on 5 November 2013. The 1Mt/yr plant has undergone an extensive production and environmental upgrade that cost Euro150m.
"The new Rezzato plant is the best expression of the Group's strategy: industrial development combined with a firm commitment to innovation and environmental performance," said Italcementi CEO Carlo Pesenti.
He added that the Rezzato upgrade was part of the Pact for the Environment signed by Italcementi and the Ministry in July 2009, which set out an investment programme for the renewal of our industrial network and attainment of ambitious environmental targets. Other targets include Italgen, the Italcementi Group company that produces energy entirely from renewable sources. The Italcementi investment plan has also seen a technical upgrade at the Matera cement plant.
Products manufactured in Rezzato include white cement and the basic material for a new biodynamic cement to be used to construct the external structure of Palazzo Italia at Expo 2015. The Rezzato production facility currently employs 118 people and provides work for an additional 160 people in ancillary industries.
Brazil: Provale, a manufacturer of calcium carbonate, plans to enter the well and white cement markets. It is setting up a 190,000t/yr capacity cement grinding plant at Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Esprito Santo. Provale is currently waiting for environmental clearance to start ground breaking in a 50,000m2 area. US$4m of the project funding is coming from the US private equity company, Resource Capital Funds, which has bought a 22% stake in Provale. President Emilio Nemer Neto said that talks with a prospective partner in Europe for the acquisition of clinker are underway.