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Bangladesh: Asadul Haque Sufyani has been promoted to Chief Marketing Officer of Seven Circle (Bangladesh), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Shun Shing Group. Previously Sufyani had been working as the General Manager (Sales, Marketing & Distribution) of Seven Circle. He joined in Shun Shing Group in 2009.

Sufyani, aged 40, started his career in the Brand Management department of Sanofi-Aventis and later worked as a Senior Marketing Manager in Bengal Group and Head of Trade Marketing in Robi (formerly AKTEL). Sufyani graduated in Commerce from Delhi University, India and later gained his MBA from the Lincoln School of Management, University of Lincoln in the UK.

Bangladesh: HeidelbergCement Bangladesh has appointed Albert Scheuer as its chairman. Scheuer is a member of the managing board of HeidelbergCement Group with responsibility for Asia-Oceania and worldwide co-ordination of the Heidelberg Technology Centre. Before this, he was chief operating officer of HeidelbergCement's operation in China and served as managing director of HeidelbergCement Technology Centre in European Cement Plants of the group from 1998 to 2005.

Bangladesh: Lafarge Surma Cement (LSC) earns up to US$60m/yr from sales of clinker to other cement companies in the country. The Bangladesh-based subsidiary of Lafarge imports limestone from a quarry in Meghalaya, India via a 17km belt conveyor to its cement plant at Chhatak, Bangladesh. According to the Financial Express, the setup is the only cross-border industrial venture between India and Bangladesh.

Bangladesh: Loesche has been thanked by the Charity: Water non-government organisation for its donation towards a clean water project in the community of Lutarupara-Molliktola, Char region in Bangladesh. Thanks to the funding, the village has received a tube-well and now has access to clean water and sanitation.

Due to Loesche's donation in late 2011, 347 people in Lutarupara-Molliktola now have access to safe and clean drinking water. In December 2012 Loesche donated again to Charity: Water to help a community in Malawi that will be completed un 2014.

Charity: Water is a non-profit organisation that provides clean and safe drinking water in developing countries. In addition to helping communities access clear water the organisation trains beneficiaries on best sanitation and hygienic practices, safe water storage and water point management.

Bangladesh/India: India's Star Cement has started exporting clinker to Bangladesh by river. According to a report by the Times of India, the cement producer aims to export over 50,000t/month of clinker to Bangladesh by this route.

"Exporting clinker to Bangladesh by the river will give an edge to the company to encounter the stiff competition it is likely to face from manufacturers of Southeast Asian countries, all of whom cater to 99% clinker requirement of this country," said a Star Cement official.

In a pilot project in 2012 Star Cement had started clinker exports to Bangladesh by road. The company has deals with several leading cement producers in Bangladesh to meet their clinker requirements and is planning more.

Bangladesh: Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd signed an agreement with Madina Cement Industries Ltd at a ceremony organised at the company's headquarters. Under the terms of the deal, Lafarge Surma will supply its high quality clinker to Madina Cement from its integrated plant at Chhatak to produce 
'Powercrete.' This will be subject to strict quality controls by employees of Lafarge Surma to ensure world-class quality that Lafarge Surma promises to deliver to its customers.

Furthermore the production process will follow the highest safety standards. Lafarge will shortly launch Powercrete, with the aim of strengthening its market position in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh: Seven Circle Bangladesh, manufacturer of Seven Rings Cement, is going to establish a 1.3Mt/yr cement factory in Khulna by July 2013.

"We are expecting to enhance our production capacity to 4.4Mt/yr million tonnes by 2015 and the new factory in Khulna will help us a lot to achieve our business expansion target," said Seven Circle Bangladesh's general manager of marketing and sales Asadul Haque Sufyani. The company's current annual production capacity is 1.6Mt/yr

"Since 2008, we are exporting our product in 50kg bags to different states in India. We will be able to allocate more quantity of cement for export after starting production in our new lines. At present we are giving priority to our local buyers," added Sufyani, adding that the company was involved in numerous key building projects and highway developments in the capital Dhaka.

Bangladesh: The largest ever vertical roller mill in Bangladesh's cement industry, owned by Bashundhara Group (BG), was inaugurated on Monday 12 November 2012 at a ceremony in Khulna.

Mayor of Khulna, Talukdar Abdul Khaleque, along with managing director of Bashundhara Group Sayem Sobhan and other guests inaugurated the factory. The VRM was supplied by the German cement mill manufacturer Loesche GmbH.

While addressing the ceremony, mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque said that BG had opened a door of huge employment opportunities for the people of the region, especially in the Mongla Seaport area of Khulna Division.

The mayor added that other industrial entrepreneurs should come forward to start industrial production by following BG. He warned those yet to start industrial work at the plots allotted to them, that they would run the risk of having their space cancelled if they did not start industrial production in the near future.

Bangladesh: Hong-Kong based Shun Shing Group has announced that it intends to increase the capacity of its Bangladesh brand, Seven Rings Cement, to 4.4Mt/yr by 2015. Seven Circle Bangladesh (SCB), a subsidiary of Shun Shing Group, produces Seven Rings Cement.

SCB is also working on increasing its capacity at another plant in Khulna to 2.9Mt/yr by 2013. SCB was incorporated in Bangladesh in 2000, with an initial capacity of 0.5Mt/yr. Currently the company has a capacity of 1.6Mt/yr in the country.

Bangladesh: Six cement plants in Nowapara, in the western Jessore district of Bangladesh, have closed due to a combined crisis in operating capital, a lack of raw materials and a lack of government patronisation. The plants were part of a group of twelve established in 1997 in the Khulna Division of the country and it is now feared that the remaining six plants will be shut also. The group had a combined capacity of about 3.5t/day.

Questions had previously arisen regarding the quality of cement from the plants. According to local sources the owners of these plants were evading VAT by purchasing contraband clinker. In addition some manufacturers were using excessive amounts of fly ash, forcing them to sell their cement below the cost of production.

Subsequent to the closures local market share is being captured by King Brand, Akij, Scan and Elephant Brand cement.