Displaying items by tag: delay

Venezuela: Production at FMC Venezolana’s Pertigalete plant has dropped to 30% while repair work is being unertaken on its line 6. The production line was orignally shut down in February 2018 for upgrades to its filters, according to the El Tiempo newspaper. However the maintenance work has been delayed while the plant waits for a crane. At present only line 7 is operational at the site.

Kazakhstan: The opening of the Rudny Cement plant has been delayed to 2018. The regional government said that the US$44m project is in the final stage of completion, according to Interfax. The 0.5Mt/yr plant has been postponed several times since 2010 due to a lack of finance. The most recent plan was to start production by the end of 2017.

Saudi Arabia: The Arabian Cement Company (ACC) says that the construction of new cement mills at its Rabigh plant has been delayed to the third quarter of 2018 from the fourth quarter of 2017. The delay has been blamed on, “…the contractor's failure to comply with the timetable.” The second-phase of the project, to build a new clinker production line, is under review. The cement mill order was placed with China National Building Material (CNBM) in 2015.

Egypt: Misr Beni Suef Cement has delayed the installation of a coal mill at its Beni Suef plant to the third quarter of 2017. Farouk Mostafa, managing director of the company, said that the delay has been caused by a shortage of US Dollars needed to pay to import the mill and its spare parts and general currency variations with the Egyptian Pound that has raised prices, according to Daily News Egypt. The mill was originally planned for December 2016.

Saudi Arabia: Tabuk Cement says that its second clinker production line is expected to be commercially operational in the second quarter of 2017. The revised opening date is a delay from the original announced date of the third quarter of 2016. The cement producer has blamed the delay on ‘irregular non-compliance with the required capacity and specification’ of the second line. It added that the company will not incur additional costs due to the hold-up.