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EMG to build US$300m cement plant in Egypt
14 June 2017Egypt: Islam Solaiman, the vice chairman of the Electro-Mechanical Design Group (EMG), says that the group plans to build a US$300m cement plant in Foukah, Marsa Matrouh. The plan follows the group securing cement licence prospectus documents and it has started preliminary studies, according to the Daily News Egypt newspaper. The plant will supply cement to the north-west Matrouh governate and it may export cement to Libya and other countries.
Mongolia: Prime Minister J Erdenebat has attended the inauguration ceremony of Mongolyn Alt Corporation’s (MAK) 1.1Mt/yr cement plant at Dalanjargalan. The new plant is forecast to create around 900 jobs and replace cement imports worth up to US$75m/yr, according to the Mongolian News Agency. The unit will produce a range of different strength Ordinary Portland Cements, sulphate resistant cement and water-resistant cement. Danish engineering contractor FLSmidth won a Euro86m contract to build the 3000t/day plant in 2012. In conjunction with the project a 1.9km railway was built from the Olon-Ovoot railway terminal and a 65km power transmission line was set up from Choir with a substation.
Fives wins dryer contract with Cementos del Norte
13 June 2017Honduras: France’s Fives has won a contract to supply a FCB Flash dryer for Cementos del Norte’s Bijao plant. The dryer will be installed on an existing ball mill that was supplied and installed by Fives FCB in 2001 for a production capacity of 90t/hr of pozzolanic cement. Since then the pozzolana content and moisture rate have increased. Once operational the grinding plant drying capacity will rise.
Grupo Gloria expands Cal & Cemento Sur lime plant
12 June 2017Peru: Grupo Gloria says that a US$80m upgrade project at its Cal & Cemento Sur lime plant at Caracoto-Juliaca near Puno is underway. Construction of a sixth line at the site scheduled for completion for the end of 2017, according to the Gestión newspaper. The new line will increase production by 1000t/day to 2000t/day. The investment follows a US$120m investment since 2012 that will see the plant’s production capacity rise to 1Mt/yr by the end of 2017 from 0.13Mt/yr in 2013.
Republic of Congo: Nigeria’s Dangote says it will deliver the first batch of 42.5 R grade cement from its new US$350m cement plant at Mfila near Brazzaville in July 2017. The plant was completed in May 2017 and it is currently undergoing test runs, according to the Vanguard newspaper. The 1.5Mt/yr plant will join others run by CIMAF, Sonocc and Forspal in the country.
Fiji: Pacific Cement has stopped cement production due to a breakdown at its plant. Acting Prime Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said that the cement producer stopped production in late May 2017, according to the Pacific News Agency Service. The government intends to allow people to import cement duty free, as long as it meets the AS3972 standard, in order to prevent a cement shortage.
Pacific Cement supplies about 80% of the market in Fiji and it operates the only integrated plant in the territory. The other local supplier in the market is Tengy Cement. Pacific Cement has also agreed to sell 24,000t of surplus clinker to Tengy Cement following government intervention.
US: HarbisonWalker International has broken ground on its new monolithic refractory plant at the Point Industrial Park in South Point, Lawrence County, Ohio. The US$30m plant was first announced in February 2017 and will be operational by early 2018. It will have a production capacity of 80,000t/yr.
Iraq: China North Industries Corporation (Norinco) has signed a US$445m deal with Jabal Bazian Co for General Trading to build a cement plant. The contract includes the plant's production line design, purchasing, construction management, operational work as well as assorted administration buildings, dormitories, dining halls and other facilities, according to the Global Times newspaper. The plant is scheduled for completion in the second half of 2019.
Ohorongo Cement preparing to build solar plant
08 June 2017Namibia: Ohorongo Cement has held a ground breaking ceremony for a 5MW solar plant at its Sargberg cement plant in North Otavi. The site is being developed and built by Germany’s SunEQ and its local partner Hungileni. The US$7.8m project is scheduled to start operation by the end of 2017.
“Electricity is of paramount importance to our operations and constitutes 25% of our production requirements. We are aware of the country’s precarious energy situation and hence took the decision to tap into the renewable energy resource which our country is endowed with,” said Hans-Wilhelm Schutte, Ohorongo Cement’s managing director.
Ohorongo Cement has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with SunEQ. Construction of the plant will start once SunEQ has obtained a generation license from the Electricity Control Board.
India: Orient Cement has signed a deal with Jaiprakash Associates to buy three cement plants from it for US$302m. The arrangement, which was originally announced in October 2016, includes a deal to buy a 74% stake in Bhilai Jaypee Cement for US$225m and the acquisition of the Nigrie cement grinding plant in Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh from Jaiprakash Power Ventures for US$77m, according to the Hindu newspaper. Bhilai Jaypee Cement, a joint venture between Jaiprakash Associates and the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), has a 2.2Mt/yr integrated Portland slag cement plant in Satna Madhya, Madhya Pradesh and a grinding plant in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh.
The transaction will be funded by Orient Cement through a mix of internal accruals, debt and equity funding. The acquisitions will increase Orient Cement’s production capacity to 10.2Mt/yr from 8Mt/yr and it will grant it access to the central and eastern regions of the country.