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China: Anhui Conch and its subsidiaries have responded to increased rainfall and raised water levels in the Yangtze River in Jiangnan Province since June 2020 by building a “solid line of defence against floods.” The Group says that with the help of the Central Committee of the Communist Part of China it has planned and implemented flood monitoring, strategic precautions and local flood control using earth and sandbags. Anhui Conch subsidiary Chizhou Conch mines limestone for cement production in the area. It said, “Chizhou Conch will continue to pay close attention to all the work of flood prevention and flood preparation, ensure the safety of the flood season, and help the company achieve its annual production and operation goals and tasks smoothly.”
Huaxin Tibet plants win Green Factory certification
16 July 2020China: The Tibet Autonomous Region Department of Economics and Information has awarded Huaxin Cement subsidiary Huaxin Tibet’s Shigatse Company Tibet Company cement plants with regional Green Factory status. The plants are among eight businesses across the autonomous region selected for their dedication to green development. The company says that it attaches “great importance to the protection of plateau ecology, the scientific development of mineral resources and the promotion of mine reclamation and greening.”
The Tibet Company circulates used cooling water from cement production into irrigation systems for mine reclamation. The Shigatse Company “strengthened the greening of mines and plant areas according to local conditions, and insisted on special environmental protection training for front-line employees and middle-level leaders,” improving environmental awareness across its operations, according to Huaxin Tibet.
Mozambique: Dugong Cimentos says that construction of its new 1.8Mt/yr integrated cement plant in Matutuíne District, Maputo Province, is 90% complete. The Noticias newspaper has reported that the plant cost US$330m and was paid for by private Chinese investors. It will permanently employ 500 people, including 400 Mozambicans, when operational. The plant will consume 400,000t/yr of coal and produce cement as well as clinker for grinding at other Mozambique plants that currently import it.
China: Henan Province has announced a planned rise in water and energy tariffs for cement producers that fail to meet current emissions standards and clean transportation requirements. Reuters News has reported that companies subject to the measures will pay US$0.07 – US$0.14/m3 more for water and up to US$0.01/kWh more for electricity. Henan enacted ‘ultra-low’ emissions limits of 10Mg/Nm3 of dust, 50Mg/Nm3 of NOx and 100Mg/Nm3 of SO2 in 2018. Cement plants in the province produce 105Mt/yr of cement.
Young Investment Group Industry Company Limited and China Gezhouba Group form joint venture to establish cement plant
09 July 2020Myanmar: Young Investment Group Industry Company Limited (YIGICL) has entered into a joint venture with China-based China Gezhouba Group Cement (CGGC) and China Gezhouba Group Overseas Investment (CGGOI) with the aim of establishing an integrated cement plant in Mandalay, Mandalay region. The joint venture, which is held 30:70 by YIGICIL and the Chinese partners respectively, will also set up a limestone mine.
China: Dongwu Cement has appointed Liu Dong as chairman and Wu Junxian as chief executive officer (CEO) following the resignations of Xie Yingxia and Jin Chungen for personal and retirement reasons respectively.
Liu, aged 51 years, has been an executive director of Dongwu Cement since mid-2019. Since leaving university he worked as a diplomat for the Chinese government and the United Nations. From 2005 he has held a number of senior positions at companies including Orient Holdings Group, Huilitong Industry, Sunshine Oilsands, Orient International Resources Group, Global Mining and Sino-Sindh Resources. He holds over ten years’ experience in capital market and investor relationship sectors in Hong Kong and has a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
Wu, aged 39 years, is an executive director of Dongwu Cement and the general manager of Suzhou Dongwu Cement. He joined the group in 2009, and has held various positions in Suzhou Dongwu such as assistant to general manager and deputy general manager. He became general manager of Suzhou Dongwu in 2013. Previously, Wu worked for Orient Holdings and Shanghai Keli Communications Technology. He holds a bachelor degree in management administration from Nanjing Audit University.
China/India: UltraTech Cement has agreed to sell its majority stake in Shandong Binani Rongan Cement for around US$120m. As part of the deal its subsidiaries Krishna Holdings and Nathdwara Cement will both divest their shareholdings in the company. UltraTech Cement picked up the 3Mt/yr plant in 2018 as part of its acquisition of Binani Cement in 2018. The buyer has not been named.
Tanzania: Huaxin Cement subsidiary African Tanzanian Maweni Limestone has ignited the kiln and begun trial production of clinker at its newly upgraded 0.75Mt/yr Maweni Limestone clinker plant. Huaxin Cement acquired the subsidiary in May 2020 and begun upgrading the kiln line on 1 June 2020, in spite of the fact that only 14 Huaxin Cement management team colleagues remained in the country due to the company withdrawing staff to China prior to the coronavirus lockdown.
Huaxin Cement says that it will not upgrade the plant’s grinding unit “for various reasons.” The company said, “subject to the epidemic prevention and control situation, the company will send an excellent management team to implement advanced cement process technology and management. We are committed to turning Maweni Limestone into a benchmark industrial enterprise in Tanzania and promoting the local cement industry to achieve quality.”
JSW Group cuts Chinese imports
03 July 2020India: JSW Group says that it will cease US$400m/yr worth of imports of Chinese equipment and materials due to Chinese military activities on the Sino-Indian border in Kashmir. Managing director Parth Jindal said, “The unprovoked attack by the Chinese on Indian soil, on our brave jawaans has been a huge wakeup call and a clarion call for action.”
Huaxin Cement ignites kiln in Uzbekistan
30 June 2020Uzbekistan: China-based Huaxin Cement has successfully ignited the kiln at its 2Mt/yr Jizzakh cement plant in Jizzakh Oblast. 200 employees attended the plant’ opening ceremony, which was streamed by video link to Huaxin Cement’s global headquarters in Wuhan Province. Huaxin Cement president Li Yeqing said, “Everyone has done a very good job, demonstrating the company's strength and personnel capabilities.” Trial operation had been due to begin in April 2020, but was delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak.