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Sagar Cements reports 7% rise in September 2015 production 09 October 2015
India: Sagar Cements produced 122,642t in September 2015, up by 7% from 114,693t in September 2014. Cement sales grew by 6% to 115,225t in September 2015 from 108,611t in September 2014.
UK: A pair of peregrine falcons nesting in a disused building at the former Westbury Lafarge Cement plant in Wiltshire will be protected even if the buildings are demolished, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
Owners of the site, Tarmac (now part of CRH), recently submitted a Prior Notification to Wiltshire Council to have the area demolished so that it could be used for other purposes. "We've worked with Tarmac nationally and we're working with them on this to ensure that the birds are not dramatically affected by any development work at the site," said Phil Sheldrake, a conservation officer from the RSPB. "They don't have a nest in the chimney, but they are nesting in another building on the site for the first time this year and have been roosting on the chimney. We have to make sure that if the buildings are demolished we can provide an alternative for them, such as a nest box that could be placed close to the site until a new building is built." Peregrine falcons are strictly protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act after their numbers went into steep decline in the 1980s.
Carlos Slim names two new representatives on Cementos Portland Valderrivas board
Written by Global Cement staff
09 October 2015
Spain: Mexico's Carlos Slim has appointed Carlos Jarque and Juan Rodriguez Torres as proprietary directors of Cementos Portland Valderrivas. After the appointments, Carlos Slim controls more than half of the board of directors of Cementos Portland Valderrivas, with Gerrardo Kuri as CEO. Spanish builder FCC has three representatives on the board of Cementos Portland Valderrivas, namely Esther Koplowitz, Alicia Alcocer and Carmen Alcocer Koplowitz. FCC is the second biggest shareholder in Cementos Portland Valderrivas.
FLSmidth appoints representative in Iran 08 October 2015
Iran/Denmark: Denmark's FLSmidth has selected Iranian Ehdas San'at Company as its representative for the implementation of projects and services in Iran.
Managing Director of Ehdas San'at Morteza Hashempour and the Director of FLSmidth, Thomas Schulz, have signed a scientific, technical and economic cooperation memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the cement industry in Tehran. Ehdas San'at has agreed to a close cooperation with FLSmidth in the field of producing related equipment and constructing new projects, as well as the optimisation and reconstruction of existing cement plant.
Following the recent agreement between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) group of powers in Vienna on 14 June 2015, Iran has been inundated with offers from foreign companies. Top Iranian officials have repeatedly said that they accept offers only from foreign applicants that make investments in Iran and share technological know-how with the country.
Earlier in September 2015, Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Alireza Daemi said that companies from several European and Arab countries have declared deep interest in broadening ties with Iran in the water and power industries. "Companies from Austria, Germany, France, Italy, as well as some Arab countries, have voiced readiness to finance projects in various sectors in Iran," said Daemi. "We seek to increase productivity and efficiency in the domestic power sector by exchanging technological experience and knowledge with foreigners."
New Zealand: Two cement ship unloaders, a ship unloader and two conveyor belt systems purchased by Holcim are being shipped to New Zealand from the Netherlands on a heavy lift ship called the Happy Dragon.
One of the cement ship unloaders along with a ship unloader, which have a combined weight of 240t, will arrive in Timaru in early November 2015 and will be used by Holcim at its new dome at the Timaru Port. The other unloader and conveyor belts are bound for Holcim's Auckland dome.
Holcim's Capital Projects Manager Ken Cowie said that Holcim was excited to have the cargo in transit in the North Atlantic. "This signals the arrival on site of all the major equipment for the terminal and brings us closer to commissioning the operations later this year."
The cement ship unloaders were built by Van Aalst Bulk Handling in Hazerswoude. The largest of them is 33m long, 15.5m wide and 18m high. A logistics company brought the unloaders 20km east of Rotterdam, where they were placed on a pontoon by a floating crane and floated down to be loaded onto a ship.