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Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has opened a cement production line at a new 1Mt/yr cement plant in Gazakh. The project is a joint investment between Akkord Industrial Construction Investment Corporation and the International Bank of Azerbaijan. Construction began at the plant in 2010.

Construction of the plant has been planned in two stages, starting with the commissioning of cement first followed by gypsum production. Construction work on the cement production line was completed in March 2013. The plant has a planned clinker production capacity of 2500t/day.

South Africa: Sephaku Holdings has reported that it is on schedule to commence production of cement at its associate company, Sephaku Cement, in the first two quarters of 2014. Sephaku Cement is a subsidiary of Nigerian multinational cement producer Dangote Cement. In its nine-month financial report to 31 March 2013 Sephaku reported that construction of the US$320m Delmas grinding plant and the Aganang clinker and cement plant were both at an advanced stage of development at end of 2012.

The Delmas cement milling plant in Mpumalanga will receive approximately 55% of the clinker produced at Aganang for further processing and is on track for completion in the final quarter of 2013, with production due to start in January 2014. The Delmas plant will have annual cement production capacity of 1.4Mt/yr. The Aganang plant in North West Province will commence production in the second quarter of 2014 with the capacity to produce 1.9Mt/yr of clinker and 1.2Mt/yr of cement when fully commissioned.

Uzbekistan: A new cement plant build in the Jizakh region of Uzbekistan plans to install its mill by early 2013. The plant will have a production capacity of 0.35Mt/yr of white cement and 0.76Mt/yr of grey OPC.

The project was initiated in July 2012 when Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) and Turkey's Dal Teknik Makina signed a contract worth US$114m. Finance came from a US$74.2m loan from the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of Uzbekistan and AMMC contributed of US$40m. In June 2013 Dal Teknik Makina placed an order with Gebr. Pfeiffer SE for a Pfeiffer MPS 3350 B vertical roller mill.

India: Shree Cement started clinker production at its Bangur City, Ras unit in Pali District in state of Rajasthan on 20 June 2013. The plant has a production capacity of 6000t/day. Shree Cement has eight cement plants in Rajasthan and one grinding unit in Uttrakhand, with a production capacity of 9Mt/yr.

China: Sumitomo Osaka Cement intends to increase cement production by 80% in China's Yunnan Province by 2016. The Japanese cement producer has been making cement in Yunnan Province since 2007 in partnership with a local steelmaker and a Hong Kong construction materials company. That operation involves four plants, each run by a separate joint-venture firm.

With infrastructure investment still active in Yunnan, the plan is to build two more cement plants with a combined production capacity of 6.4Mt/yr. This will make the operation the province's largest, with a capacity of 14.6Mt/yr.

The first new plant will be built in December 2014 and the second in 2016. Sumitomo Osaka Cement will invest around US$42m for its share of the project.

Philippines: Cemex Philippines has announced that it will undertake a US$60m expansion at its APO Cement Plant in Cebu to increase its production capacity by 1.5Mt/yr. The plant currently has a production capacity of 2.9Mt/yr. It wants to keep pace with the rapid growth of the Philippines market. It is also expanding its Antipolo plant, which currently has a mixture of dry and wet process kilns.

Cemex Philippines has supplied cement to numerous road paving projects in the country, which is rapidly developing. Its president Pedro Palomino said, "All industries, all sectors of an economy, rely on a country's infrastructure to support their economic activities. Factors such as reliable transportation and communication networks ensure smooth business operations, that products and services are delivered efficiently, on time and at competitive costs."

Vietnam: Xuan Thanh Investment and Development JSC, the investor behind the Thach My cement plant in the central province of Quang Nam, has said that the plant is on track to produce its first products in mid-December 2013.

The investor has completed about 95% of the project's construction and will hand it to the contractor on 15 July 2013, according to a government announcement.

The Thanh My cement plant covers 57.36 hectares in Nam Giang district. The plant has a total investment cost of US$192m and a designed capacity of 1.7Mt/yr of cement in its first phase. Construction began in July 2010 but it was delayed.

Once in operation, the plant will employ about 1000 local people.

China: Top global cement producer Lafarge said on 5 June 2013 that it will continue to invest in China, despite overcapacity issues that have plagued the cement industry for years. Bruno Lafont, chairman and chief executive officer of Lafarge, said the company will invest in China using a 'value-growth' model.

Lafont said that Lafarge is likely to invest more in research, production and creating new partnerships in China. He said that the company will prioritise its existing position in Southwest China, although it may expand to other parts of the country. Lafarge expects to earn income of US$32.6m in China by 2015, according to Chen Mei, vice president of Lafarge Shui On Cement.

Lafarge has mainly operated in less developed regions in southwest China since it entered the Chinese market in 1994. Lafont said that China's overcapacity issues have appeared in other growing markets before, adding that inefficient and unsustainable players will eventually be phased out.

Just 69.4% of China's cement industry's capacity was used in 2012, according to a survey conducted by the China Enterprise Confederation.

India: The Danish cement plant supplier FLSmidth has reported that it has received an order worth around US$35.5m from the Indian cement manufacturer Orient Cement Limited for the supply of main equipment for a greenfield cement plant to be located in the state of Karnataka in southern India. The plant will have a capacity of 6000t/day. The order will be booked by the Cement division and contribute beneficially to FLSmidth's earnings until the end of 2014.

The order covers engineering and supply of main equipment from limestone crusher to packing plant. Included in the scope of supply are key components for raw material crushing equipment, limestone, coal and additive stores, raw material grinding system using roller press technology, vertical mill for coal grinding, ILC pyro processing system with Cross-Bar Cooler, two vertical mills for cement grinding as well as packing and loading system for trucks and rail wagons.

"Orient Cement is a well-known customer to FLSmidth. In 2007, we supplied the company with a pyro-processing system with a capacity of 4000t/day for a brownfield project. This new order from Orient Cement is based on a close and successful customer relationship and is furthermore a good example of FLSmidth's leading position in the Indian cement market," said Group Executive Vice President Per Mejnert Kristensen.

DR Congo: Pakistan-based cement producer Lucky Cement has announced plans to begin construction of a US$240m plant in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in June 2013. Lucky Cement has a 50-50 agreement with the Rawji Group, a banking company, to start production via a company called Nyumba Ya Akiba (NYA), according to Reuters.

"Now's the time to reconstruct a country that was destroyed by civil war," said Sajid Feroze, NYA's chief financial officer.

The proposed factory, to be located around 250km from the capital Kinshasa, is due to come online in late 2015 and will produce 1.2Mt/yr, more than double the current total production in Congo. The country currently consumes just 15kg/capita/yr. Neighbouring Angola uses 300kg/capita/yr and the global average is 400kg/capita/yr said Feroze.

Earlier in May 2013, South African cement firm PPC announced it would build a US$200m cement plant in Congo.