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Bosnia & Herzegovina: Austria’s Asamer Baustoffe has made a bid for the remaining share of Fabrika Cementa Lukavac. At present it owns 99% of the cement producer. Fabrika Cementa Lukavac operates 0.8Mt/yr integrated plant at Lukavac.

Bosnia & Herzegovina: Tvornica Cementa Kakanj’s (TCK) sales revenue grew by 13.3% year-on-year to Euro48.5m in 2017 from Euro42.8m in 2016. Its sales volumes of cement rose by 12.3% to 0.49Mt from 0.43Mt. Its earnings before interest and taxation (EBIT) rose by 12.5% to Euro8.89m from Euro8.09m. It attributed the growth to continued growing market at home in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

General director Branimir Muidža said that the subsidiary of Germany’s HeidelbergCement started adding new cement silos to its plant in 2017 with completion scheduled for 2018. It has also started preparing its plants to use refuse-derived fuel (RDF).

Total consumption of cement in Bosnia & Herzegovina was estimated to be 1.2Mt in 2017, a rise of 6% from 2016. The boost was pinned on construction of a new road project.

Croatia: Zeljeznice, the Bosnia & Herzegovina railway federation, has signed a partnership with Croatia’s PPD Transport to transport gypsum to Nasicecement. The deal is to transport 20,000t of raw gypsum by the end of 2017 from supplier Rudnici Gipsa based in Donji Vakuf in Bosnia & Herzegovina, according to Klix media. Shipments were scheduled to start from the beginning of July 2017. No value for the contract has been disclosed.

Bosnia & Herzegovina: Fons Technology International (FTI) has replaced the existing clinker cooler of Fabrika Cementa Lukavac’s (FCL) cement plant in Tuzla. The new cooler has a capacity of 2100t/day. After commissioning by FTI the cooler has achieved the targeted process figures with a smooth mechanical operation. As part of the project FTI reused the existing cooler casing, existing refractory, four of the existing fans and the existing hammer crusher.