Global Cement News

Russia: Sibirskiy Cement subsidiary TimluyCement produced 0.3Mt of cement in the eight months to 31 August 2019, representing a year-on-year increase of 50% from 0.2Mt in 2018. The company explained this in terms of an 11% capacity increase in Buryatia and the opening of supply chains through Amur and Khabarovsk precipitating total exports of over 33,000t to the Far East.

Tajikistan: Tajik producers produced 3.1Mt of cement in the nine months to 30 September 2019, up by 9.7% from 2.8Mt in the corresponding period of 2018. Cement producers exported a total of 1.2Mt to a value of US$54.1m. Around 0.7Mt went to Uzbekistan and 0.4Mt to Afghanistan, with most of the remaining produce going to other neighbouring countries.

Paraguay: Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC) has signed an agreement with the Ministerio de Urbanismo, Vivienda y Hábitat (MUVH), the government body responsible for commissioning residential home construction, for preferential cement prices for companies to which the latter awards building contracts. INC president Ernesto Benítez Petters said “Cooperation with the MUVH will strengthen the consumption of cement produced in Paraguay by ensuring it a price and the provision of demand from this type of project.”

Malaysia: Following 12 months of graduated succession plan implementation, Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS) is ready for the retirement of Group Executive Director Ahmad Alwee Alsree Datuk Syed. CMS chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Bin Abdul Manaf accepted Datuk Syed’s retirement with an outpour of thanks for his ‘immeasurable contributions over 15 years of loyal and faithful service.’ All of Datuk Syed’s roles have now passed to successors within the company, with Isaac Lugun Dato taking over as group managing director.

Argentina: Holcim Argentina opened a technical training centre on 17 October 2019 at its 1.2Mt/yr Campana grinding plant. The Holcim Technical Academy will provide specialist training to managers and supervisors from Holcim’s Campana, Córdoba, Jujuy and Mendoza plants, with courses on quality, processes, maintenance and quarries.