UK: Aggregate Industries has released a range of admixture-driven waterproofing solutions, blended with a custom mixes of BASF’s MasterLife WP 799, called WatertightTM concrete.
Aggregate industries has described the high performance integrated waterproofing systems as ‘insensitive to weather, groundwater and sprinkler systems.’
Malaysia: Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS)’s cement division has reported a net profit of US$19.5m in the six months to 30 June 2019, down by 37.1% from US$31.0m in the same period of 2018. The company’s total first half revenue rose by 8.9% to US$194m from US$178m in 2018.
In its financial statement, CMS blamed the cement profit slump on rising clinker import prices and the cost of fuel for its coal-fired cement plants. CEO Datuk Isaac Lugun has expressed hope for the group’s longer-term prospects due to its competitive power pricing and strong global presence.
US: Nano Graphene has launched a concrete admixture. OG Concrete Admix improves concrete’s water resistance by a factor of four and more than doubles the strength, while significantly reducing cracking.
In GrapheneCA’s promotional material, it mentions a lowered carbon footprint amongst the benefits of its admixture for concrete producers, with less cement being required in the production of concrete using OG Concrete Admix.
Vietnam: Vietnam’s August 2019 cement output has been estimated at 7.9Mt, up by 8.7% from August 2018. This would give an eight-month figure of 63.1Mt, up by 7.6% year-on-year. Data from government’s General Statistics Office placed the country’s 2018 output at 90.2Mt, a figure likely to be exceeded by early December 2019.
In the first half of 2019, Vietnam exported 31.3% of its cement, supplying 68% of China’s imports of cement and clinker over that period. Global Cement has previously reported that Vietnamese companies were seven of the top ten importers of cement to the Philippines from 2013 to 2018.
