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Uzbekistan: Turkey’s DAL Teknik Makina has ordered a MVR 5000 R-4 cement grinding mill from Gebr. Pfeiffer for a project in the Surxondaryo region. The mill will have a 3700kW drive and it will be able to grind 400t/hr of cement. Feed material with a moisture level of up to 7% will be ground to a fineness of 12% R 0.090mm. The mill will be ready for shipping later in 2017. The project is the second mill that DAL Teknik Makina has ordered from Gebr. Pfeiffer.

Tajikistan: Cement producers exported around one third of the country’s cement production in the first quarter of 2017. Cement production in January to March 2017 rose by 12% year-on-year to 426,000t of cement, according to the Asia Plus news agency. The country exported 120,400t of cement to Afghanistan, 10,000t to Uzbekistan and 2700t to Kyrgyzstan in the period.

The country has 13 cement plants with a total production capacity of 4.7Mt/yr. Tajik-Chinese joint ventures Huaxin Gayur Cement, Chzhungtsai Mohir Cement and Huaxin Gayur Sughd Cement accounted for 38%, 28% and 16.6% of the local production in the first quarter of the year.

Uzbekistan: Uzqurilishmateriallari, with the Government of Uzbekistan, and Eurocement Group have signed a memorandum of cooperation in connection to joint projects including the construction of a cement plant. Filaret Galchev, Eurocement’s chairman of the board of directors, and Elyor Ganiev, the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade, signed the agreement, according to Uz Daily. The deal includes cooperation towards building a 2.4Mt/yr cement plant with Eurocement’s local subsidiary Akhangarancement and plans for refractory and insulation materials projects. Altogether the investment is around US$220m. The agreement also includes cooperation in producing new ‘export-orientated’ building materials.

Uzbekistan: China’s Anhui Conch has met with representatives of the Umar Corporation to discuss building a 2Mt/yr cement plant in Samarkand. Delegates from Anhui Conch visited proposed sites to build the unit in late March 2017, according to the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper. Representatives from Umar plan to visit China in April 2017 to complete the negotiations. The expansion plans by the Chinese cement producer are part of its country’s government-sponsored plans to expand its industries internationally.

Uzbekistan: Russia’s Eurocement has signed an agreement with Uzqurilishmateriallari to build a 2.4Mt/yr cement plant. It is scheduled for completion by 2020. The new plant will be Eurocement’s second plant in the country and it will increase its total cement production capacity to over 4Mt/yr. Eurocement already owns a 84% stake in Uzbekistan’s second largest cement producer Akhangaracement after purchasing a 76% stake in it from Switzerland’s Zeromax in 2006.

Uzbekistan: Ahangarancement JSC has increased its cement production by 5.2% year-on-year to 1.86Mt in 2016 from 1.78Mt in 2015. Clinker production grew by 4.9% to 1.34Mt from 1.28Mt, according to the Trend News Agency. In total, the Eurocement-owned cement producer’s sales of cement rose by 4.8% to 1.86Mt. Cement and clinker production rose by 4.1% and 3.4% respectively in 2015.

Tajikistan: Tajikistan began to export cement to Uzbekistan in 2016, according to the Ministry of Industry of Tajikistan. 162,000t of cement were sent to the neighbouring country in the first nine months of the year. Cement has also been sold to Afghanistan. Previously Tajikistan exported cement only to Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan with the majority going to the former. Cement production in Tajikistan has increased by 37% year-on-year to 1.51Mt in the first nine months of 2016.

Uzbekistan: Ahangarancement has increased its cement production by 6% year-on-year to 1.42Mt in the first nine months of 2016. Clinker production grew by 3.8% to 1.02Mt and cement sales volumes grew by 6.1% to 1.42Mt, according to the Trend News Agency. Ahangarancement, based at Ahagaran in Tashkent, is the second largest cement producer in the country. It is owned outright by Russia’s Eurocement.

Uzbekistan/Jamaica: Schade Lagertechnik has announced details of orders its has received from the cement industry from Kyzylkumzement in Uzbekistan and from Caribbean Cement in Jamaica.

In July 2016 Scaahde won a contract to supply two bridge type reclaimers and a stacker to Kyzylkumzement in Uzbekistan. The two reclaimers, each with a capacity of 1000t/hr and a rail span of 30m, and the 1200t/hr stacker will be delivered in the autumn of 2017 so that the plant can be commissioned in early 2018. The project is being supported with the aid of World Bank financing.

The order is part of the modernisation and improvement of cement plants that was called for two years ago by the Uzbek construction materials collective, Uzstroymateriali. This investment programme comprises nine projects for modernisation and reconstruction of plant at three of the largest cement works in the country, Kyzylkumzement in Nawoi, Akhangaranzement in the Tashkent region and Bekabadzement also in the Tashkent region. The investment volume at Kyzylkumzement alone is in the order of US$40m. Currently there are six cement plants in Uzbekistan with a total installed capacity of around 8Mt/yr.

Schade will also supply a full-portal reclaimer for limestone, with a capacity of 700t/hour and a rail span of 42m, to Caribbean Cement in Jamaica in the autumn of 2017. The project phase leading up to this order had been going on for almost 20 years. Rather than investing in a new machine, the initial plan was to convert an existing one. In the end the management decided that the purchase of a new machine would be more economical than incorporating all the required modifications into the existing machine.

Schade Lagertechnik produces equipment for bulk material stockyards and blending bed technology. It is part of the Aumund Group.

Uzbekistan: The Titan Cement plant in the Karauzyak region of Karakalpakstan has been completed and has started operation. The plant has a production capacity of 0.2Mt/yr and 200 new jobs will be created. The commissioning was announced at a socio-economic development meeting for the Republic of Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic within Uzbekistan.