Global Cement News

Peru: UNACEM has ordered a clinker cooler for its Condorcorcha cement plant from Turkey’s Fons Technology International, part of Dal Engineering Group. The cement producer will replace its existing cooler with a new FTI clinker cooler. The FTI cooler is designed so that it can reuse the existing cooler casing and refractory. It has also ordered a three-roller crusher for its 1500t/day clinker production line. Installation is scheduled for September 2019. No value for the order has been disclosed.

Liberia: President George Manneh Weah has written to the Liberian Senate to agree investment and incentive agreements between the government and Starr Cement. The cement producer intends to build a 0.6Mt/yr grinding plant, according to the New Dawn newspaper. The project will cost US$41m. The proposed plant will supply cement locally and to other countries in the Mano River Union, including Ivory Coast, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Nigeria: Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology, has inaugurated a pozzolana cement plant at Bokkos in Plateau state. The plant is currently being commissioned, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. The 5000t/yr grinding unit is intended to produce low cost cement. It consists of six sections: materials handling; grinding; nodulisation; calcination; milling; metering; and bagging. The plant is being run in conjunction with the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBBRI).

Australia: Adelaide Brighton has signed a deal with Oz Minerals to continue supplying cement to the Oz Minerals Prominent Hill Operation. It will last five years with options to extend. In addition to the supply of cement, Adelaide Brighton will also supply aggregate and sand from its Sellicks Hill Quarry and its Price sand operation, as well as auxiliary logistics services.

Bangladesh: Premier Cement’s profits in 2018 have been reduced due to rising raw material costs. Its net profit fell by 21% year-on-year to US$5.24m in 2018 from US$6.37m in 2017. Its revenue rose by 8% to US$119m from US$110m. Kazi Md. Shafiqur Rahman, the company secretary of Premier Cement Mills, also blamed market competition for the fall in profit.