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Colombian competition body fines Cementos Argos, Cemex and Holcim US$68m

13 December 2017

Colombia: The Superintendent of Industry and Commerce (SIC) has fined Cementos Argos, Cemex and Holcim and six senior managers US$68m for fixing the price of Ordinary Portland Cement. The fine covers behaviour by the companies between January 2010 and December 2012. SIC’s investigation discovered that collusion between the cement producers artificially increased the price of cement by 30% despite inflation being 9% during the period.

Cementos Argos responded to the sanction by saying that it rejected the fine and decision by SIC. Following an earlier statement in October 2017 it once again criticised SIC’s methods. According to Reuters, both Holcim and Cemex disagreed with the finding and they said they would take legal action against it.

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Demolition starts of Akranes cement plant

13 December 2017

Iceland: Iceland Cement has started demolishing its cement plant at Akranes. The 9 hectare site in the town will be used for housing and other projects, according to the Iceland Review magazine. FLSmidth originally built the plant and it was in operation since 1958 before it stopping manufacturing cement in 2012 when the company switched to imports from Norcem. Germany’s HeidelbergCement is the majority owner of the company.

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Sherpa lawyers accuse Lafarge of paying Euro13m to armed groups in Syria

13 December 2017

France: Lawyers on behalf of the human rights group Sherpa have accused Lafarge of paying nearly Euro13m to armed groups including Islamic State between 2011 and 2015 in order to keep a cement plant operating during the Syrian civil war. They made the statement at a new conference about a preliminary inquiry into the affair, according to Reuters. The lawyers said that a large portion of the money went directly or indirectly to Islamic State and that the payments continued after Lafarge's Jalabiya cement plant was closed in September 2014. They used a figure taken from an internal report by Baker and McKenzie that was commissioned for LafargeHolcim.

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Uzbekistan to sell cement through exchanges in 2018

13 December 2017

Uzbekistan: The government has ruled that cement producers must sell cement only through exchange auctions from 1 January 2018. Cement not sold through first trades can then be re-exhibited within one month before it will be allowed to be sold for export under direct contract, according to the Trend News Agency. A ban on the resale of the products purchased on the exchange is cancelled.

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Carthage Cement wins clinker export contract

13 December 2017

Tunisia: Carthage Cement has secured a contract to export 350,000t of clinker to sub-Saharan Africa in 2018. The deal will enable the cement producer to enter this market for the first time. Neither the name of the other company nor the exact destination has been disclosed.

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Gebr. Pfeiffer supplies modular grinding plant for Cementos Fortaleza plant in Costa Rica

13 December 2017

Costa Rica: Gebr. Pfeiffer is in the process of supplying a Ready2Grind modular grinding plant to Cementos Fortaleza’s new 300,000t/yr plant at Salinas Esparza in Puntarenas. The project is a joint venture between Mexico’s Cementos Fortaleza and fibre cement producer Plycem. Production is scheduled to begin in the first quarter 2018.

The project scope includes: a clinker mill feed system with four hoppers; a MVR 2500 C-4 roller clinker mill with classifier and ancillaries; process filters, hot gas generator and fan; electrical controls and drives; cement transport and three storage silos; packing plant and bulk loading systems; and monitoring and coordination of erection as well as commissioning of the grinding plant.

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Cherat Packaging and Mondi hit half-billion cement bag milestone

13 December 2017

Pakistan: Cherat Packaging, a producer and supplier of packaging to the cement industry, and Austria’s Mondi have made over half-a-billion cement bags since 2002. The local bag manufacturer has a bag production capacity of 600m/yr. It holds country-specific exclusive rights to use Mondi’s brown sack kraft paper to produce cement bags and has bought only Mondi paper for its use in the last 15 years.

“The bags had to be suitable for rough handling and fast, dust-free filling, and we wanted to deliver further benefits, such as material and cost savings. Mondi’s Advantage Select paper was the perfect choice. The 80/85gsm variant has revolutionised paper bag sales in Asia as it has provided us as well as our customers with high quality, low cost solutions. It has allowed us to use two plies instead of three and to dispense with perforation, which has significantly reduced paper consumption and dust at our clients’ premises. The bags are lighter, yet stronger than the previous three-ply versions,” said Amer Faruque, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Cherat Packaging.

The company’s paper division has exclusive rights from Mondi for procurement of sack kraft paper in Pakistan and supplies two-ply 80/75gsm 50kg bag to Cherat Cement, a sister subsidiary within the Ghulam Faruque Group. In October 2017 Cherat Packaging commissioned a Windmuller & Holscher universal paper sack line.

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