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Indonesia: Yostinus Hulu, the chairman of the Association of North Nias Community (Himni) has urged the city administration of Gunungsitoli, Nias in North Sumatra to set up a government-backed company to cope with cement shortages. He said that cement supplies had been disrupted by infrastructure projects in the region, according to the Antara news agency. The city has faced frequent cement shortages.

Indonesia: Denmark’s FLSmidth is expected to secure a contract with Hongshi Holding Group to supply equipment for a new cement plant at Jember in East Java. Lu Jianlong, a manager at Hongshi's equipment supply department, told Inside International Industrials that the US$40m deal is due to be signed by the end of June 2018.

The project has a total investment of US$315m. Sinoma (Suzhou) Construction, a subsidiary of Sinoma International Engineering, is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the project. Atlas Copco and Kawasaki Heavy Industries will also be providing equipment for the plant. The project will include a 12MW waste heat power generation system.

Indonesia: Semen Indonesia’s net profit fell by 45% year-on-year to US$29.6m in the first quarter of 2018 from US$54m in the same period in 2017. It blamed the decline on fuel costs and rising debt payments, according to Reuters. Despite this, its sales revenue rose by 3.4% to US$476m from US$460m. Its cement sales volumes rose by 4% to 6.79Mt from 6.53Mt. The majority of this rise came from exports, which increased by 44.9% to 0.6Mt from 0.41Mt.

Indonesia: Cement sales rose by 8.4% year-on-year to 16.4Mt in the first quarter of 2018 from 15.1Mt in the same period in 2017. Particular rises were noted in Central Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan, according to data from the Indonesian Cement Association. Total exports of cement and clinker rose by 79.6% to 0.70Mt from 0.39Mt.

India/Indonesia: India Cements has purchased an 100% share of Raasi Minerals through its subsidiary Coromandel Minerals. The Singapore-based company owns a controlling stake in several coal mines in Indonesia. No value for the transaction has been disclosed.

Indonesia: Semen Grobogan has ordered two MVR 5000 C-4 mills for cement grinding and one MVR 5000 R-4 for raw material grinding from Germany’s Gebr. Pfeiffer. The package also includes an MPS 3350 BK mill for grinding lignite. The mills will be set up at Grobogan cement plant near Semarang in Central Java.

The cement mills, each featuring a drive power of 4000kW, will be capable of grinding 190t/hr of Ordinary Portland Cement at 3600 Blaine or PPC at 4000 Blaine. In addition, the mills will be suitable for grinding blast-furnace cements. The MVR 5000 R-4 with a drive power of 4300kW is guaranteed to achieve a capacity of 500t/hr of raw meal ground to a fineness of 12% R 90µm. The lignite to be processed has a high feed moisture (37%), which is typical for Indonesia. The inherent moisture content in the lignite is 14%. The MPS 3350 BK with a drive power of 800kW will dry the material to a surface moisture content of 1% while at the same time grinding it at 50t/hr to a fineness of 15-25 % R 90µm. The order also includes a spare parts package for two-year operation.

The order was placed by the Chinese general contractor Nanjing Kisen. Commissioning of the mills is scheduled for the first half of 2019.

China: Anhui Conch’s sales revenue grew by 35% year-on-year to US$11.9bn in 2017 from US$8.85bn in 2016. Its net profit nearly doubled to US$2.51bn from US$1.36bn. The cement producer said that it had, ‘seized the favourable opportunities arising from the state’s further deepening of supply-side structural reform and the promotion of off-peak season production.’

During the year Anhui Conch opened eight cement grinding plants including Quanjiao Conch Cement, Anhui Xuancheng Conch Cement and Nantong Conch Cement. Outside of China the company completed phase two of its Merak grinding plant in Indonesia and started cement production and completed construction of the North Sulawesi Conch plant in Indonesia and the Battambang Conch plant in Cambodia. The units in Indonesia and Cambodia are due to start production in 2018. A new plant, Luang Prabang Conch, is being built in Laos and preliminary work on projects at Volga Conch in Russia, Vientiane in Laos and Mandalay in Myanmar is underway. At the end of 2017 Anhui Conch says it has a clinker and cement production capacity of 246t/yr and 335Mt/yr respectively.

The cement producer also announced that its Baimashan Cement plant was intending to start operating a CO₂ collection and purification pilot project in the first half of 2018. The initiative is part of the group’s moves to implement the government’s low-carbon development strategy.

Indonesia: Indocement’s sales revenue fell by 6% year-on-year to US$1.01bn in 2017 from US$1.12bn in 2016. The subsidiary of Germany’s HeidelbergCement saw its operating income fall by nearly half to US$131m from US$255m. In HeidelbergCement’s annual report it said that, although cement and clinker sales grew by 5.5% in 2017, prices fell due to excess production capacity.

Indonesia: Indocement has inaugurated a 0.5Mt/yr at Palembang in South Sumatra. The terminal has two cement silos and a packaging plant, according to Warta Ekonomi magazine. The new unit will allow the cement producer to sell bulk cement and it is expected to increase its presence in Sumatra.

Indonesia: Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa, a subsidiary of HeidelbergCement, plans to open a new 1Mt/yr terminal at Palembang in South Sumatra in the first quarter of 2018. The unit is in the final stage of construction and scheduled for commissioning in March 2018, according to Kontan News. The new unit will allow the cement producer to sell bulk cement and it is expected to increase its presence in Sumatra.