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Iraq: Sinoma (Suzhou) Construction Co has placed an order for an MPS 5000 B vertical roller mill for raw material grinding from Germany's Gebr. Pfeiffer. The grinding plant will be set in GRD Cement Plant Company Tainall's 5000t/day cement plant located near the town of Sulaimaniah in northern Iraq. The MPS vertical roller mill on order is designed for a capacity of 450t/hour at a product fineness of 12 % R 90µm.

Tajikistan: The Tajikistan government has announced that the Tajikistan Aluminum Company (TALCO) will build a 3Mt/yr cement plant costing over US$600m in a joint venture with China National Building Material Company (CNBM). The new plant will be built in Khatlon province in the south of the country. The plant is expected to be operational by the end of 2013 and the project will create 5000 new jobs.

Russia: The Danish cement plant manufacturer FLSmidth has won a contract worth approximately Euro27m from the Russian company Kaluga Cement Plant LLC to supply additional equipment for its cement plant currently under construction in the Kaluga province, 300km southwest of Moscow. The contract is an extension of the contract that FLSmidth won in 2011 from Kaluga for the supply of a complete cement plant.

"The award of this order to FLSmidth underlines the strength of our good relations with the customer and the value of our long-standing local presence in Russia," said Group CEO Jørgen Huno Rasmussen. "The order is also a good example of the general signs of a positive development in the cement market."

Colombia: Swiss construction materials company Holcim has announced plans to double its cement production capacity in Colombia by investing US$600m in a new 2Mt/yr cement plant, according to an official statement.

Holcim, which currently produces around 2.1Mt/yr of cement in Colombia at its Nobsa plant, is conducting a feasibility study for the new facility. The construction phase is expected to create 1000 direct and indirect jobs.

"We're evaluating the departments of Bolívar and Antioquia as possible locations but we've yet to make a decision," said country manager, Miguel Ángel Rubalcava.

The new plant announcement comes as the Colombia government embarks on an

ambitious investment programme to develop its infrastructure. Among the plan's goals are a fourfold increase in the country's four-lane highways by 2018.

Infrastructure investments in the country are expected to reach US$10bn by 2014, compared to US$3bn in 2012.

Vietnam: Chen Liang-chuan, the Taiwanese founder of Taipei-based Lucky Cement, has had his US$160m Ninh Binh Cement plant in Vietnam thrown into doubt by the Vietnamese government changing its mind on a decision to award the plant limestone mining rights.

Liang-chuan has invested in the 4Mt/yr project since 2008 after being awarded the right by the local government to mine a 72-hectare limestone field for 49 years. The project was approved by Nguyen and related ministries. However, just as the plant's two new production lines were set to begin trial runs, the local Ninh Binh government rejected the request to begin exploiting the field, because it had designated the field part of the Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex. It plans to apply to UNESCO in September 2013 to have the complex recognised as a world heritage site.

Sources at Lucky Cement said that Vietnamese authorities were trying to find another limestone mine to replace the original field, but they were worried that a new mine location would entail additional transportation costs.

Germany: Italcementi has awarded KHD a contract to upgrade and redevelop its Brescia Rezzato plant in Italy. The upgraded plant, situated in the environmentally sensitive Lake Garda region, will have to adhere to strict environmental requirements.

Italcementi has selected KHD's Clean Technology for the upgrade. It includes a KHD COMFLEX^® SC 18 – 3250 system for raw material grinding, a Two-Pier PYRORAPID^® Kiln 3000t/day 4.4m x 52m, a PFC PYRFLOOR^® clinker cooler 635 AW and a Low NO_X 5 stage Preheater 7950 PR.

KHD will also supply additional environmental equipment including selective catalytic reduction systems, a gas conditioning tower, selective non catalytic reduction systems, as well as special filter systems to reduce SO_X. KHD will install much of the equipment whilst the existing kiln continues to operate.

The Rezzato plant, built in 1964, was designed by former Italcementi chairman Giampiero Pesenti, father of current Italcementi CEO Carlo Pesenti, during his tenure as an engineer. The project is scheduled to be finished in 2014, in time for Italcementi's 150th anniversary.

Zimbabwe: PPC (Pretoria Portland Cement) plans to spend at least US$200m on a new cement plant in Mashonaland Central Province in Zimbabwe, according to Zak Limbada, the managing director of its Zimbabwe subsidiary Portland Holdings Limited (PHL). The proposed plant will have a capacity of 1Mt/yr.

"We are busy drilling to identify the raw materials in the Rushinga area and some north eastern parts of the country," said Limbada.

PPC currently has a capacity of 1Mt/yr in Zimbabwe. Larfage and Sino Cement produce 400,000t/yr and 250,000t/yr respectively in the country. In November 2012 PPC announced that PHL has been awarded an indigenisation certificate by the government of Zimbabwe.

Indonesia: Cement producer PT Semen Bosowa Maros has officially begun construction on a new US$310m clinker plant in South Sulawesi. The new plant, will be called Kiln Plant Line 2, and the entire site will have a production capacity of 5.2Mt/yr. The existing plant at the site has a capacity of 2.5Mt/yr. The plant is expected to be complete before the end of 2014.

"As of now, our cement production is 3.2Mt/yr, only about 6% of the national demand," said Bosowa Corporation chief executive officer Erwin Aksa. Higher clinker production is expected to help the company meet the country's growing cement demands.

Bosowa Corporation producers 2.2Mt at its Semen Bosowa Maros plant and 1Mt at its Batam-based PT Semen Bosowa Indonesia plant. The group is expected to have a production capacity of around 10Mt/yr in 2015. By then Indonesia's domestic demand is estimated to be 53Mt/yr.

Clinker produced by Kiln Plant Line 2 will be delivered to Bosowa's grinding plants. Semen Bosowa Maros is now developing new grinding plants in Banyuwangi in East Java, Cilegon in Banten, Sorong in West Papua and Amurang in North Sulawesi.

The Banyuwangi grinding plant will have a production capacity of 1.8Mt/yr with an investment of US$103m. It is scheduled to open before the end of 2013. The Cilegon grinding plant will have a production capacity of 1.8Mt/yr with an investment of US$103m. It is scheduled to open in 2014.

Oman: Plans to build a cement plant in Oman's northern city of Al Duqm are progressing, with the promoters starting to identify limestone mines in the area. The project, which will have a production capacity of 3-4Mt/yr, is aimed at enhancing the availability of cement in the country to meet additional demand arising from major government-supported infrastructure projects and other construction activities.

Sources said that the Duqm cement project will be promoted by a well established 100% Omani firm, which will carry out exports through Duqm port. "It is going to be a very big project. The cement plant will be set up in coordination with the port," said a source.

Presently, the two cement producers in the country, Raysut Cement and Oman Cement, have a combined capacity of 4.7Mt/yr. However, if the capacity of Raysut's Ras Al Khaimah, UAE-based Pioneer Cement Industries is included, the total installed capacity is much higher at 6.4Mt/yr. An important advantage for the proposed cement plant is the rich deposits of limestone in the region.

In a recent forecast Raysut predicted that the construction industry in Oman would grow to US$5bn by 2016 at an average rate of 6%/yr. It supported this assertion with the news that a number of formerly suspended programmes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been reinstated. However, the group added that cement supplies in Oman remain under 'significant' pressure from imports from UAE. It is estimated that UAE has an overcapacity of cement of around 65%. Raysut also expects that demand in Yemen and east Africa will aid the company.

Brazil: Steel manufacturer CSN has announced plans to set up four cement assets in Minas Gerais state. The company wants to grow its current cement production capacity of 2.4Mt/yr to 5.4Mt/yr with an investment of US$491m.

CSN has proposed setting up three cement plants and a second clinker unit, adding to one at Arcos that began operations on May 2011. Currently the clinker unit at Arcos supplies 2500t/day the company's plant at Volta Redonda in Rio de Janeiro. The second clinker unit would expand this to 6500t/day, making it the largest clinker production site in Latin America.

Other cement companies investing in Minas Gerais state include Cimentos Liz's US$147m expansion to its capacity at plants in Vespasiano and Lagoa Santa. Holcim is growing the capacity of its plant in Barroso from 1.3Mt/yr to 3.5Mt.yr. Both Holcim and Cimentos Liz are receiving funding from the state development bank BDMG.