Mexico: Holcim Mexico says that it supplied a record 70,000m³ of concrete to the Dos Bocas oil refinery in September 2020, bringing the total volume supplied since major infrastructure work began at the site in March 2020 to 300,000m³. El Norte News has reported that the company is supplying the project from three sites with a total capacity of 4000m³/day: the Paraíso, Refinería and Dos Bocas concrete plants. Holcim Mexico noted that, of the 215 employees involved in the project, 50% are women.

Chief executive officer (CEO) Jaime Hill Tinoco said, “Dos Bocas is one of the most important infrastructure works in the history of LafargeHolcim and Holcim Mexico.” Upon completion in late 2022, the company expects to have delivered 2.14Mm³ of concrete to the project.

Australia/Indonesia: Semen Indonesia subsidiary Semen Padang says that it has dispatched a 25,000t batch of cement for Australia. Bisnis News Sumatra has reported that company is targeting total shipments of 1.58Mt to the country in 2020.

Senior manager of export sales Fifit Abriyanto said, “We are building connections with new customers. We already exported 35,000t of clinker to Bangladesh in September 2020.”

India: Dalmia Cement has imported 3830t of fly ash from a National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) power plant in Uttar Pradesh for use at its 0.8Mt/yr-capacity integrated Calcom cement plant in Assam. United News of India has reported that the supplementary cementitious material (SCM) travelled over 1000km.

62.9GW-total capacity NTPC produces 65Mt/yr of fly ash, some of which is used by ACC at its cement plants in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab.

Argentina: The Instituto del Cemento Portland Argentino (ICPA) has announced that a series of ten talks, entitled Vision 2030 – a Decade of Action, will take place in late October 2020. It says that the presentations, “will provide a space for reflection on 10 key topics on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda.” 

The event is also a celebration of ICPA’s 80th anniversary.