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Cameroon: Dangote Cement's cement plant in Cameroon is set to enter production in January 2015, according to project chief, Baba Abduhallï. The plant was built on the banks of the Wouri River. It has already received its first raw material shipments from a quarry in the city of Tombel, which Dangote Cement Cameroon has approval to use for five years.
Initially, Dangote Cement Cameroon plans to produce 1.5Mt/yr of cement, raising national production to around 3.6Mt/yr, including 500,000t/yr from the Moroccan company, CIMAF and 1.6Mt/yr for Cimencam, Lafarge's subsidiary.
Ghorahi Cement halts production 13 January 2015
Nepal: On 13 January 2015, Ghorahai Cement Industry (GCI) stopped production due to a protest by its tipper operators. The tippers, which supply raw materials to the cement plant, have remained off the roads for the past nine days, putting pressure on Ghorahai to increase transportation charge.
"We have not been able to produce cement for the past nine days as tipper operators are not supplying raw materials to the factory," said a company official. Ghorahi Cement, which is located in Laxmipur, Dang Deokhuri District, produces Sagarmatha brand cement.
Tipper operators have asked the cement industry to increase transportation charge by US$1.49/t to US$6.48/t. They said that the cement plant has not revised its transportation charges for the past 18 months. Tipper operators launched protests after the industry refused to raise the transportation charge.
"We had been demanding revision in transportation charges for a long time," said Bharatnath Yogi, senior vice president of the Tipper Operators Committee of Dang. "We were forced launch the strike after the industry showed reluctance to address our demand."
Showing solidarity to the tipper operators' protest, truck operators have also stopped supplying cement and clinker manufactured by the industry to the market. Due to the protest, finished cement products remain in the plant's warehouses. According to a Ghorahi Cement official, 32,000t of clinker produced by the cement industry has remained unsold.
"Tipper operators have been pushing for a hike in transportation charges at a time when the price of petroleum products is coming down. This is not logical," said the Ghorahi Cement official.
Sangharsh Morcha MLA fights for cement plant to re-open 12 January 2015
India: Navjawan Sangharsh Morcha MLA and former minister Bhanu Pratap Sahi have urged the Jharkhand Government to initiate steps to re-open the Japla cement plant in Palamau, which was closed several years ago. Sahi said that the Government should also take steps to re-open the Bhavnathpur power plant. He added that the Government should outline funds in the main budget in March 2015 for its development, including water availability.
Prism Cement plans a limestone mining project and cement plant in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh 12 January 2015
India: Prism Cement is planning a 4.4Mt/yr capacity limestone mining project at the village of Kotapadu and Kalvatala in Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh. 6.63km2 of land has been acquired. The project will come also include a 3Mt/yr capacity clinker plant and a 48MW coal-fired power plant. The project is waiting for the new industrial policy to be established by the State Government.
Cement worker's body discovered in Bristol silo collapse 12 January 2015
US: After more than three days of searching, on 11 January 2015 firefighters found the body of a worker who was missing after a full cement silo collapsed in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania. The missing worker was identified as Anthony Gabriele (48) of Tullytown. The collapse happened at the Riverside Cement distribution facility in the Riverside Industrial Complex on 8 January 2015. An investigation into the collapse is still ongoing.