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New solar park for Holcim Magyarorszag 13 May 2025
Hungary: ID Energy Group inaugurated a 28.5MW solar park at Holcim Magyarorszag's cement plant in Kiralyegyhaza on 12 May 2025. The new facility will supply around 30% of the plant’s electricity needs and was built under a power purchase agreement, according to MTI news.
India: Shree Cement has secured mining rights for a limestone quarry spanning 912 hectares. The reserve has a capacity of 211Mt and is situated in Jaisalmer District, Rajasthan.
Iraq: Kurdistan Region prime minister Masrour Barzani will inaugurate the Dabin cement plant and power station in Erbil Governorate today, 12 May 2025, according to Kurdistan24 news. The foundation stone was laid nearly two years ago, on 22 June 2023.
The project spans 212,000m² and was built by China Power Investment Corporation. It includes a 6300t/day capacity cement plant and a 52MW power station, intended to both support the energy needs of the plant and feed into the broader grid to alleviate strain on regional electricity supplies. A limestone quarry 1km away from the plant supplies the limestone for production, where geological surveys have reportedly confirmed reserves of 150Mt, sufficient to sustain operations for at least 50 years.
Raw material is transported to the plant using a 1400t/hr capacity industrial crusher. The processed material is stored in four 10,000t silos, each 18m in diameter and 56m tall.
Iraq: IVI Holding has signed a US$240m engineering, procurement and construction contract with Sinoma Overseas to build a new 6000t/day cement plant in Al-Muthanna Province.
The agreement was signed in Dubai on 9 May 2025 by IVI Holding chair Hussein Shamara and Sinoma Overseas chair Linhe Zhu.
The project forms part of the Iraqi government’s US$1.17bn industrial programme for Muthanna announced in April 2025.
Bolivia: Empresa Pública de Cementos Bolivia (ECEBOL) will begin exporting 12,500t/month of clinker to Mexico from June or July 2025, following the finalisation of a supply contract in late May 2025, according to Ahora El Pueblo newspaper.
Technical manager Aldo Olivera said that the deal will be Ecebol’s first clinker export contract, and that negotiations have been underway for several months. Oliviera said that the company hoped to achieve between US$7m - 8m over the course of the contract.