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US: Turkey’s Çimsa has launched a new subsidiary in the US at the World of Concrete event in Las Vegas. The company has set up the Cimsa Americas Cement Manufacturing and Sales Corporation to target its products at the US market. It also promoted white cement products at the fair including its Super White, Crafta, Recipro and Resisto brands.

Turkey: A shiploader that Bedeschi has supplied to Sönmez Çimento is being commissioned. The slewing, luffing and travelling type shiploader has a loading capacity up to 1000t/hr. It will serve Sönmez Çimento’s integrated plant in the Adana Yumurtalık Free Zone. It follows a previous port installation by Bedeschi at Yesilovacik.

Turkey: YD Madencilik, a subsidiary of Agoaglu, has signed a contract with Claudius Peters for the delivery of three new silos. The silos will be operated by YD Madencilik in Düzce, Turkey. Commissioning is scheduled for 2018.

The scope of supply comprises a multi storage tricell silo MS-IC/EC for cement, a cement storage duocell silo MS-IC/EC as well as a raw meal MC silo. Both cement silos have a volume of nearly 16,800m³ with an inner diameter of 24m and a filling height of 75m. The raw meal silo has a volume of nearly 16,700m³ and an inner diameter of 20m.

Turkey: Soma Cimento has ordered a 4000t/day clinker production line from KHD for its plant at Soma near Manisa. The contract includes engineering, equipment supply, and supervision of erection and commissioning, including KHD’s Simulex plant simulation system, which will simulate the operation of the plant. Commissioning of the plant is scheduled for the spring of 2018.

The core components of KHD’s new line are: a five-stage KHD Preheater with Pyroclon-R LowNO_x AF calciner, equipped with Pyrotop compact mixing chamber, tertiary air duct and Pyrobox calciner firing system; a Pyrorapid two-tire rotary kiln, with a diameter of 4.6m; a Pyro-jet kiln burner; and a Pyrofloor clinker cooler equipped with a Pyrocrusher System.

This project will be the third commissioning of KHD’s Low-NOx calciner with Pyroloop Technology in Turkey. It will be KHD’s 51st kiln line in Turkey. No value for the order has bee disclosed.

Turkey: Germany’s Aunde has ordered four vertical roller mills from Loesche for a new cement plant being built in Soma. The order includes one 350t/hr raw material mill, one 30t/hr coal or 27t/hr petcoke mill and two 150t/hr clinker or granulated blast furnace slag mills. The scope of delivery also includes additional components such as water injection, cyclones, slide gates and rotary feeders as well as a spare parts package for the next two years.

Italy: Cementir’s acquisition of Compagnie des Ciments Belges has propped up its sales revenue, volume and operating profit for the first half of 2017. Its sales revenue rose by 31.3% year-on-year to Euro631m in the first half of 2017 from Euro481m in the same period in 2016. However, on a like-for-like basis its sales revenue fell by 1.5%. Its earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose by 68.5% to Euro85.1m from Euro72m but fell by 4.9% on a like-for like basis. Its sales volumes of cement rose by 34% to 6.37Mt from 4.75Mt but fell by 2.4% on a like-for-like basis. The group blamed its poor like-for-like performance on falling revenue in Turkey and Malaysia despite good results in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, China and Italy.

“Results in the first half 2017 were up thanks to the effect of the acquisitions concluded in the second half 2016, which added Euro16.6m to EBITDA, despite adverse changes in exchange rates. On a like-for-like basis, the improvement in EBITDA in Egypt, Italy, China and Norway partially compensated lower earnings in Turkey and, to a lesser extent, in Denmark and Malaysia, as well as the depreciation of foreign currencies against the Euro – mainly the Egyptian Pound and the Turkish Lira,” said Francesco Caltagirone Jr, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Turkey: Brazil’s Votorantim is set to inaugurate a Euro140m upgrade project at its Sivas cement plant. The project has been part of the cement producer’s strategy to increase its revenue outside of Brazil, according to the Valor Economico newspaper. The upgrade has seen the plant’s cement production capacity rise to 1.8Mt/yr from 0.6Mt/yr. Prior to the investment the plant accounted for around 19% of Votorantim’s 3Mt/yr production in Turkey and once fully operational it will account for 42%. The plant will supply the market with CEM I and CEM II products.

Company president Walter Dissinger said that international sales account for 40% of group revenue. However it is hoped that this will recede to 30% once the Brazilian market starts to recover. The company is also building an upgrade at its Charlevoix plant in the US.

Israel: Danny Tal, the Trade Levies Commissioner at the Ministry of Economy and Industry, is investigating a claim that cement from Turkey and Greece is being dumped in the local market. The Melet Har Tuv Company originally made the claim to the ministry, according to the Globes business newspaper. In its claim Melet Har Tuv alleged that cement normally sold in Greece was being solid for about 85% of the value in Israel.

"The complainant has reasonably proved that it manufactures in Israel goods that are similar to the imported goods regarding the raw materials, manufacturing processes, physical attributes, marketing channels, the use and the treatment by consumers,” said Tal.

The country’s biggest cement producer Nesher supported the claim in April 2017 and this helped initiate the investigation. Data provided by Har Tuv to the Trade Levies Commissioner suggest that the market share the local cement companies have fallen following the increase of imports. Nesher’s market share fell to 65% from 75% and Melet Har Tuv’s share fell to 5.8% from 10%. It is alleged that LafargeHolcim is the main company ‘flooding’ the local market.

Brazil: Votorantim’s net revenue from its cement business fell by 14% year-on-year to US$731m in first quarter of 2017 from US$848m in the same period in 2016. The cement and steel producer blamed the continuing decline on an 8% drop in cement consumption which triggered lower sales volumes and prices. Negative currency exchange effects also contributed to the situation as the country continued to suffer from the on going political crisis and the resulting negative effects on the local economy. The company’s adjusted earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for its cement division decreased by 49% to US$60.9m from US$119m.

Outside of Brazil the group started up a 1.2Mt/yr expansion project in Turkey in April 2017. In North America its good performance driven by strong demand and cost optimisation helped to offset the group’s overall performance. In China the group sold ‘non-core’ assets worth Euro30m in May 2017.

Turkey: KHD has been awarded the contract to upgrade Nuh Çimento’s existing ball mill grinding unit in Hereke-Kocaeli located in Marmara. With this upgrade, the plant will increase the grinding capacity from 212t/hr to 408t/hr at 4000cm³/g according to Blaine. This will be the largest upgrade project to date for KHD. Commissioning is scheduled for the start of 2018.

NUH Cimento’s plant contains one of the largest ball mills in the world with a diameter of 5.8m, a length of 17.84m and a 10.4MW drive unit. The mill has been used for around nine years at the site. For the upgrade, KHD will install two new identical Comflex grinding systems next to each other, which can be operated independently, in addition to the existing ball mill system. The new compact system will allow for a significant reduction in the installation height of the Complex system.

The contract includes: two Comflex SC16-3250 clinker grinding units; two roller press RPM 16-170/180 with Rolcox system for control and monitoring; two VS 620 type cascade separators as static classifiers; two Sepmaster SKS-VC 3250 type efficiency separators as dynamic classifiers; two HKSK 190/265 system fans; and a two years spare parts package including one spare roller.