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Indonesia: Cement sales in Indonesia have hit a record high of 5.16Mt in September 2012, according to data from the country's largest cement producer PT Semen Gresik. The amount represents a 34.4% rise compared to the same month in 2011 when sales were 3.84Mt.

September 2012 sales were boosted by increased monthly sales on the main islands of Java and Sumatra. However sales on the island of Moluccas and Papua fell by 21.7% on a monthly basis. The strong September 2012 sales follow a dip in sales in August 2012 due to fewer working days during religious festivities. Domestic cement sales in Indonesia fluctuate with factors such as holidays and government project completion deadlines.

"We expect domestic volume growth of 12.6% in 2012 and 10.8% in 2013, helped by strong marketing sales," commented Teguh Hartanto, an analyst for Bahana Securities in Jakarta.

Germany: Dr Daniel Strohmeyer has become the new head of process technology at Loesche GmbH. Strohmeyer returns to Loesche in Duesseldorf where he worked previously as a sales manager.

The 40-year old will initiate and lead projects to further develop Loesche technology and find new applications for it in various industries. Strohmeyer will also lead his team in optimising mills and plant components, with a focus on the quality of the products produced with vertical roller mills, and on overall plant performance.

Italy: Italian police have impounded Italcementi's Colleferro plant south of Rome for allegedly breaching emission limits. The company has been given 10 days to finish updating its facilities to bring them in line with European Union regulations. Production will continue during this period.

Italcementi said that the process of updating the plant had already been underway and would continue under special administrators appointed to operate factory by an Italian court. Colleferro has a capacity of 1.5Mt/yr and employs about 200 workers.

Justice officials said that the seizure for violation of pollution regulations was ordered by a court in the nearby town of Velletri, based on a report by the regional environmental protection agency, Arpa. This is the second case so far in 2012 of an Italian court seizure of a major factory for environmental reasons. Europe's biggest steel plant Ilva, based in southern Italy, was ordered to shut down in September 2012 by a court due to toxic emissions.

India: Gebr. Pfeiffer SE has secured an order from Shree Cement to provide a MPS 5000 B vertical roller mill for its RAS works in Rajasthan. The order follows a similar order from earlier in 2012 for production line seven at the RAS works.

The mill will feature a 3400kW drive designed to grind 420t/hr of raw material to a product fineness of 2% R212µm. Petcoke which is used as fuel at the works, will be ground to a fineness of 1-2% R 90µm in an MPS 2800 BK coal mill, which will come equipped with a 720-kW drive and an integrated high-efficiency classifier of the type SLS-BK.

Core components of the mills and the gear units will be supplied from Europe by Gebr. Pfeiffer SE. Gebr. Pfeiffer (India), the Indian subsidiary of Gebr. Pfeiffer SE, will source components such as the housing of the mills and the classifiers, the foundation parts as well as the internal parts of the classifiers. Additionally, the Indian subsidiary will design the layout of the grinding plants at its Noida-based offices and will advise Shree Cement on equipment procurement.