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Russia: Eurocement's Akhangarancement plant produced 164,000t of cement and 127,205t of clinker in August 2015, 2.5% and 12.2% year-on-year rises respectively. The plant shipped 164,863t of cement to in August 2015, a 1.2% year-on-year rise.

The most popular types of cement in August 2015 were PC 400-D20 (Portland cement of grade 400 with active mineral additives accounting for more than 5 - 20%, SPC 400 (Slag Portland cement of grade 400 with active mineral additives accounting for 20 - 80%), PC 400-KD20 (Portland cement of grade 400 with composite additives accounting for 10 - 20%). The share of these types of cement was 91.8%, up from 75.1% in August 2014.

Russia: Igor Nikolenko has been appointed the new General Director of CJSC Kavkazcement, part of Eurocement. A Eurocement statement stated that the new appointment was highly qualified with a 'deep knowledge of Eurocement group's business processes and long experience in the field of construction materials.'

Igor Nikolenko was born in Belgorod in 1965. Having graduated from Belgorod Technological Institute of Building Materials in Mechanical Engineering in 1990, he came to work in the Belgorod cement plant. He worked as a Deputy General Director and Technical Director of Balcem, a General Director at Savinskiy cement plant and Deputy General Director and Technical Director of Eurocement Ukraine. Most recently he was the head of Mikhailovcement plant from 2012 until 2015.

Russia: Sengileevsky Cement Plant has begun sending cement by barge. The company sent its first batch of 1700t of cement to a distribution centre in Cheboksary during the last week of August 2015.

"Our company is developing further opportunities to ship, not only cement in bulk, but also bagged cement by water transport," said Mikhail Skorokhod, President of Eurocement.

The Sengileevsky Cement Plant is situated on the bank of the Volga River, making it easy to transport cement to the Ulyanovsk region and surrounding areas, as well as further afield. Shipping by barge is relatively low cost, which should help to stabilise cement prices.

Russia: Germany's Beumer will exhibit its range of space-saving, fully-automatic palletising robots at CeMAT Russia, which runs from 22 to 25 September 2015 in Moscow. Its new stretch hood model range, which has been optimised for greater efficiency, is part of Beumer's enhanced product offering.

Russia: Igor Nikolenko has been appointed as the new general director of EuroCement's CJSC Kavkazcement. Igor Nikolenko was born in Belgorod in 1965. He graduated from Belgorod Technological Institute of Building Materials in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 and then worked in the Belgorod cement plant.

Kavkazcement is one of the largest cement plants in southern Russia with a production capacity of 3.1Mt/yr. The raw material base is limestone from the Ust-Dzhegutinsky mine and clay from Karachay-Cherkessia. The company became part of EuroCement in 2004.

Russia/China: Anhui Conch Cement plans to build a 2Mt/yr capacity cement plant in Ulyanovsk, Volga for Euro274m.

Russia: Under instructions from the Rosprirodnadzor environmental watchdog, Lipetskcement has started to install electrostatic precipitators to prevent the pollution of air with cement dust. The precipitators are mounted on the third production line's kiln. Cement dust emissions were registered at the plant during the start-up and commissioning of the plant. As such, it received new instructions to strengthen environmental controls with laboratory measurements of air quality.

Russia: HeidelbergCement has won the right to develop a 37.5km² plot at the Novo-Shikhanskaya area in Volga. According to the Geolnerud Central Research Institute, the limestone resources for the cement industry in the area amount to 168Mt. The contract costs Euro14,284 with an initial payment of Euro11,644. The license in valid for 25 years.

Russia: BaselCement produced 1Mt of cement and clinker in the first half of 2015, 4% more than in the same period of 2014, according to Interfax.

"Significant growth in production was achieved at Serebryansk Cement Plant. The enterprise produced almost 650,000t of cement in the first half of 2015. Shipments to the construction market in Moscow and Moscow region rose by 15% year-on-year. The plant's share of the Moscow region's cement market rose to 9%," said BaselCement in a press release.

Achinsk Cement shipped 64,000t of cement to customers in the Siberian Federal District in the first half of 2015, double the amount in the same period of 2014. "This was the result of the Euro2.56m investment project aimed at increasing capacity to produce the given grades," said BaselCement. The Siberian enterprise also increased shipments of commercial clinker by more than 150% on higher demand. Its share of the construction materials market in the Siberian FD was about 10%.

Russia: Eurocement Group has launched a 1.3Mt/yr dry-process cement plant in the Ulyanovsk Region's town of Sengiley. The plant will produce cement using a dry process at an investment cost of US$282m. Local press stated that the plant will create about 500 direct jobs and 1000 further indirect jobs.