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Laos: The Lao government has halted coal exports to protect cement and other key national industries, according to the Lao Ministry of Energy and Mines. The country has six cement plants, which import a large volume of high-price coal, the ministry reported.
According to local cement producers the price of locally produced cement is currently higher than that in Thailand. This poses a challenge for the industry when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community is established in 2015. Hence they are supporting a legal means to secure an adequate supply of coal mined inside the country.
China: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China saw cement production fall by 14.4% year-on-year to 12.8Mt in the first half of 2014, the local administration of building materials has revealed. Cement sales dropped by 13% to 12.6Mt during the same period.
Meanwhile, the region produced 13.5Mt of clinker in the first half of 2014, a rise of 10.5%. At the end of June 2014 clinker inventories totalled 9.04Mt, an increase of 75.5%.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosnian cement factory Tvornica Cementa Kakanj (TCK) plans to invest Euro10.2m in the 2013 - 2018 period towards environmental upgrades. In 2014 TCK plans to invest Euro2.55m on modernising its cement mills and dust collecting system. The company is majority-owned by Dutch-based CEEM Investment, a subsidiary of HeidelbergCement.
Jamaica: The Caribbean Cement Company and the Venezuelan government are close to a supply agreement for approximately 340,000t of clinker. The deal is valued at about US$29m, according to the Jamaican government. The clinker will be used by Venezuela as part of an initiative to build two million homes over a seven-year span to address a housing shortage.
Tajikistan aims to double cement production in 2014 16 July 2014
Tajikistan: Tajikistan generated 496,600t of cement in the first six months of 2014, according to the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies. Tajikistan reportedly generated 385,000t of cement in 2013. The country is now intending to double its annual production of cement in 2014.
In September 2013, the Yovon cement plant (Huaxin Gayur Cement Co Ltd) started operation. It has reportedly produced 362,800t of cement in January - June 2014. This was over 70% of the overall volume of cement produced in Tajikistan in the first half of 2014.
Other cement plants in the country include the Tajikistan - China joint venture, Yovon cement, with a cement production capacity of 1Mt/yr. OJSC Tojikcement (Dushanbe cement plant) produced 101,600t of cement in the first half of 2014.