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Vietnam: Vietnam’s cement sales are predicted to reach 95Mt by 2020 says Nguyen Quang Cung, chairman of the Vietnam Cement Association (VNCA). The total will include 80Mt/yr of domestic sales and 15Mt/yr of clinker and cement exports, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnam’s domestic cement sales are predicted to rise by 5 - 5.5Mt/yr to hit 80Mt by 2020. The country’s cement and clinker exports will stay at 15Mt/yr, Cung added, noting that Vietnam will be able to satisfy the demand. He also predicted that the country’s cement sales will reach 77Mt in 2016, including of 60Mt of domestic sales and 15.5 – 17Mt of exports.

The Ministry of Construction previously forecast that Vietnam’s sales of cement and clinker would rise 4 - 7% year-on-year to 75 – 77Mt in 2016 despite on-going economic problems.

Vietnam/Germany: Loesche GmbH has won an order for a new cement grinding plant in Ha Nam. The customer is Xuan Thanh Cement Joint Stock Company, a private company group (est. 1976) in Vietnam with more than 30,000 employees. In December 2015, Xuan Thanh Cement decided to invest in a new cement line from FLSmidth. Germany's Loesche GmbH, however, was chosen for the delivery of the cement mills.

After Loesche had already supplied a vertical roller mill for the first cement line in the same plant, Xuan Thanh JSC placed the order for the construction of the new grinding plants with two cement mills with Loesche once again.

During the signing ceremony, Mr Nguyen Xuan Thuy, General Director of Xuan Thanh Cement JSC, thanked Dr Thomas Loesche on behalf of the Xuanh Thanh Group. The contracting partners discussed future developments and confirmed their interest in continuing to work together on a long term basis.
The challenge of this project for Loesche lies in the integration of the new grinding plants into a cement line which is presently under construction.

The key elements of the scope of supply are two cement mills type LM 56.3+3 CS. In addition to the two cement mills, Loesche is also supplying further plant components, from the fresh material supply, the product filter and the mill fan to the finished material transport to the product silos. Loesche Automatisierungstechnik GmbH will be the supplier for the electric part and the automation of the grinding plants. Two hot gas generators type LF 20 L are designed to provide the product moisture guaranteed in case of kiln standstill. An extensive engineering package provided by Loesche will conclude the scope of supply.

Xuan Thanh cement plant will thus be fitted with state-of-the-art equipment for low energy consumption and for reduction of emission values to European standards. The lead time for the entire package is eleven months. Commissioning is forecasted for the second quarter of 2017.

Vietnam: Siam City Cement has signed an agreement to buy LafargeHolcim’s entire 65% stake in LafargeHolcim Vietnam for US$890m. LafargeHolcim Vietnam operates one integrated cement plant and four cement grinding plants with a grinding capacity of 6.3Mt/yr. The company is also a leading ready-mix concrete producer that operates seven plants in southern Vietnam. The sale is subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals, as well as to a right of first refusal of LafargeHolcim’s joint venture partner, and is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2016.

Vietnam: The Vietnam National Cement Association (VNCA) has proposed that the Ministries of Planning and Investment, Finance, and Construction reduce import duties on aluminium cement to improve the competiveness of local refractory producers. At present the country charges a tax of 32 – 37% on imports of the input material used to manufacture refractory concrete and refractory bricks. However, imports of refractory bricks are only charged 6%, according to the Viet Nam News newspaper.

The VNCA suggested the government cut duties on aluminium cement imports to support local firms and reduce the country’s dependence on foreign partners, such as China. Vietnam imports refractory concrete and refractory bricks from China, India, South Korea and Germany.

Vietnam: Bedeschi has sign a contract for the supply of all the raw material crushing, transporting and storage machines at the Tan Thang cement plant Nhe An province. The new plant will have a cement production capacity of 2Mt/yr.

The order includes:

• One crusher for limestone with a capacity up to 850t/hr,
• A limestone circular storage with a stacking capacity of 850t/hr and a reclaiming capacity of 350t/hr,
• One clay crushing group with an apron feeder and a Bedeschi double roller crusher, suitable to crush sticky and moist material, with a capacity of 300t/hour; a stacking and reclaiming system for raw material additives (clay, iron ore, silica) made up of a luffing stacker with a capacity of 300t/hour and a bucket reclaimer with a capacity of 200t/hr,
• A stacking and reclaiming system for coal with a luffing and travelling stacker with a capacity of 200t/hr,
• A side type scraper reclaimer with a capacity 100t/hr.

The supply includes all connecting belt conveyors, including one long conveyor that connects the quarry to the cement plant, and all the dedusting filters for the conveyors. No value has been released for the order.

Vietnam: The Ministry of Construction is planning to sell its stake in Vicem through an initial public offering in the fourth quarter of 2016. The cement producer has said previously that the state is planning to reduce its holding to 51%. Investors from Indonesia and Thailand have expressed interest in acquiring stakes in Vicem, according to the Dau Tu newspaper.

Vicem, previously known as the Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation, has stakes in 31 companies, mostly cement producers and distributors. Its gross profit reportedly doubled last year to US$105.2m in 2015. It currently controls 34% of the market in Vietnam.

Vietnam: FLSmidth has signed an engineering and procurement contract worth Euro34m with the Tan Thang Cement Joint Stock Company for the supply of main equipment to new cement plant in the Nghe An province. The order includes all the main equipment from the raw mill grinding to the clinker silo, as well as a coal mill installation, civil design, commissioning and training. Once completed, the cement plant will have a capacity of 5000t/day.

"This order is the second significant order to FLSmidth in Vietnam within the past year and was won against two other international competitors due to FLSmidth's strong track record in Vietnam and the use of the most efficient equipment. Vietnam has, for many years, been an important market to FLSmidth and, after a number of years with limited growth within the cement industry, the market is starting to pick up again," said Group Executive Vice President of the Cement Division Per Mejnert Kristensen.

The order will be booked by the company’s Cement Division and contribute beneficially to FLSmidth's earnings until late 2017.

Vietnam: Vietnam Construction Material Company (VCM) has inaugurated a cement plant for its StartCemt brand in Dong Nai. VCM also operates a 5000t/day integrated cement plant at Van Hoa, Quang Binh and three cement grinding plants in the south of the country. VCM currently sells over 200,000t/month of clinker and 40,000t/month of StarCemt cement.The StarCemt brand was established on 1 May 2015.

Vietnam: Long Son Company has ordered a cement grinding mill from Loesche for its Dong Son Bim Son cement plant. The order is part of a contract with Sinoma-NCDRI. The contract includes a type LM 56.4 Loesche mill with a performance of 520t/hour. It will grind cement to a fineness of 12% R DIN 0.09mm. The gearbox of this mill has a power output of 3600kW.

Vietnam: Loesche has signed a contract with Sinoma-NCDRI for three mills to be supplied for Thanh Thang Cement in Bong Lang, Ha Na. A type LM 60.6 Loesche mill with a performance of 520t/hour as a reliable unit has been ordered to grind cement to a fineness of 12% R DIN 0.09mm. The gearbox of this mill has a power output of 4600kW. Two separate type LM 53.3+3 CS Loesche mills with a performance of 200t/hour will be in use to grind clinker to 3400 Blaine. The gearboxes of these two mills each have a power of 4,600 kW.

The scope of delivery for this order also includes rotary feeders, water injection, metal detectors and sealing air fans. All three mills are to be put into operation by October 2016.