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China: FLSmidth, Sino Environment Engineering Development (SEPTEC) and China Resources Cement (CRC) have signed a partnership to provide pyroprocessing co-processing systems to cement plants. FLSmidth will be responsible for the design, engineering and integration of the integrated waste burning solution, with SEPETC acting as a general contractor.
The agreement follows a project at CRC's Hongshuihe cement plant that took municipal and industrial waste from the city of Binyang in Guangxi. FLSmidth installed a Hotdisc system that could process 300t/day of waste to support the cement plant’s cement production capacity of 3200t/day.
"China's energy intensive industries, such as cement production, are coming under pressure from the government that wants to rebalance the economy towards a less energy-hungry mode of growth, curb pollution and reduce carbon emissions. CRC plans to initiate several similar municipal solid waste co-processing projects for other cement producers with FLSmidth and SEPETC as partners," said FLSmidth China Country Manager, Cyril Leung.
In China's latest five-year plan, the government encourages more cement producers to co-process municipal solid waste in the cement industry, with an aim of getting 15 - 20% of the cement kilns in the country to be co-processing waste by 2020. In 2017, China will introduce a national carbon-trading scheme in 2017.
Carthage Cement grows domestic market as exports slump 20 October 2016
Tunisia: Carthage Cement’s turnover grew by 17% to US$66.2m in the nine months to 30 September 2016, compared to US$55.8m a year earlier. Locally, the firm’s sales reached US$42.3m, a rise of 21% from US$34.9m in the same period of 2015. This growth helped Carthage Cement bring its market share up to 19% in Tunisia, compared to 15.5% a year earlier. This bucked the trend in the sector, which contracted by 3.3% year-on-year between the review periods.
In terms of exports, sales fell by 2% to US$8.4m from January to September 2016, against US$8.5m in the first nine months of 2015. The third quarter of 2016 saw a higher decrease year-on-year, of 16%. The firm said it was due to a lower demand from Algeria in particular.
Huaxin Cement presents mixed results in third quarter of 2016 20 October 2016
China: Huaxin Cement’s net profit has risen by 29% to US$23.9m in the third quarter of 2016 from US$18.5m in the same period in 2015. However, its sales revenue fell by 7.3% to US$1.36bn from US$1.47bn.
JSW Cement launches Concreel HD brand cement 20 October 2016
India: JSW Cement has launched a new product called Concreel HD in the south of India. It is marketed as an environmentally-friendly product with improved chemical resistance and superior cohesion. It is targeted at strength bearing applications such as beams, columns, slabs and foundations due to its high early and long-term strength as well as its quick setting time.
Arawak Cement to reduce workforce 20 October 2016
Barbados: Arawak Cement has formally offered its staff voluntary separation packages as part of its financial and operational restructuring programme that started in October 2015. In September 2016 the company said that it would offer voluntary separation packages because the first phase of the restructuring had not yielded the results necessary to attain profitability and competitiveness, according to the Barbados Today newspaper. It blamed this on ‘unfavourable’ economic conditions, significant excess cement capacity in the region and highly competitive price sensitive markets. It also cited energy and labour costs as a factor in its decision.