Displaying items by tag: Sinoma International Engineering

China: Sinoma (CNBM) International Engineering’s value of new projects grew by 9% year-on-year to US$5.3bn in 2020. Most of these projects came from growth in its construction business segment. However, new project value from its equipment manufacturing business fell by 5% to US$629m. By region, domestic new project value decreased by 3% to US$2.1bn but overseas new project value rose by 19% to US$3.2bn. The engineering company and member of CNBM group also reported that its US$480m project to build a 5000t/day clinker production line in Zambia for Central African Cement remains in the financing stage. The project was originally announced in late 2018.

Senegal: Aumund Group says that it is supplying conveying equipment to a new production line that will be built at Ciments du Sahel’s Kirene plant. The order package includes 23 bucket elevators, seven pan conveyors, eleven drag chain conveyors, two Samson material feeders, four Centrex silo discharge machines and 19 silo discharge gates. The machines will operate in all stages of the production process, from raw materials discharge to conveying between the clinker silo and the cement mill, and in the packing plant. Supply will be made in several tranches between March and June 2021. Commissioning is planned for the first quarter of 2022.

China-based Sinoma International Engineering and its subsidiary CBMI Construction are the main contractors for the project. Aumund France and Aumund China, with support from Aumund Foerdertechnik, are the main divisions of Aumund working on the upgrade.

Argentina: 40 employees of China Nation Building Materials (CNBM) subsidiary Sinoma International Engineering have arrived at the site of Loma Negra’s upcoming L’Amalí cement plant in Olavarría. El Popular Medios News has reported that the engineers will complete work on the plant in time for commissioning in March 2021. The engineers caused a stir at the Ezeiza International Airport as they were dressed in protective clothing and masks unlike many other local travellers.

China: China National Building Materials has submitted a letter of intent of cooperation to its subsidiary Sinoma International Engineering, in which it proposes the sale of several engineering businesses to the latter. ET Net News has reported that the assets in question are under negotiation, but may include Beijing Triumph Building Materials, Nanjing Triumph International Engineering and Sinoma Mining Construction.

Vietnam: China-based Sinoma International Engineering has announced its receipt of a provisional acceptance certificate (PAC) from the owner of the 1.8Mt/yr Tonglin cement plant, signifying the handover of the finished plant. The parties originally signed the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the plant in August 2009.

Senegal: Sinoma subsidiaries Sinoma International Engineering and Sinoma Construction have signed a contract with Les Ciments Du Sahel for the upgrade of its 3.0Mt/yr Kirene cement plant in Dakar Region. The Euro245m contract stipulates that a new 6000t/day capacity cement production line will replace the plant’s old third line. Sinoma says that the new line will grind its first batch of cement from clinker in February 2022 and produce its own cement and clinker from October 2022. The group said, “We believe that the contract ought to present no significant challenge for the company.”

Democratic Republic of Congo: China-based Sinoma International Engineering has announced the construction of a 1.0Mt/yr-capacity integrated cement plant in Lubudi Territory, Lualaba Province. Dow Jones Newswire has reported that the cost of the plant, which includes a lime production line, will be US$236m.

China: Sinoma International’s income remained stable in 2019 at US$4.56bn. The number of new orders rose slightly to 142. By region, revenue from domestic markets grew by 57% year-on-year to US$2.02bn but overseas revenue fell by 21% to US$2.54bn. The equipment manufacturer and supplier said that a major project to build a 5000t/day clinker production line for Central African Cement in Zambia was still in the financing stage. The project has a value of US$480m.

Ethiopia: A new bag-packing unit at Dangote Cement Ethiopia’s Mugher plant in Oromia is unable to start operation due to a lack of raw materials. The US$20m polypropylene bag plant was completed in April 2018 but it is restricted by government controls on foreign currency that are limiting its import of input materials, according to the Reporter newspaper. The unit can produce up to 120 million bags per year.

The cement producer has also suspended plans to build a second 2.5Mt/yr production line at the plant. An agreement was signed with China’s Sinoma International for the project but it has since been abandoned due to a shortage of foreign currency, a lack of electrical power and general security issues. Deep Kamara, the country manager of Dangote Cement Ethiopia, was killed in an gun attack in mid-2018. No one has been arrested in relation to the murder.

China: Sinoma International Engineering has won a prize in the National Quality Engineering Awards organised by the China Construction Enterprise Management Association for its work on the Biskria Cement plant in Algeria. Sinoma supplied a second production line for the plant. It was commissioned in 2018.