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China: Russia’s Mechel says it has prolonged a coal supply contract with Jidong Cement until the end of 2019. The mining and steel company will supply 2Mt/yr of thermal coal mined at the company’s Elga and Yakutugol mines in South Yakutia. Monthly supplies will vary from 100,000 to 150,000t of coal products. Prices will be adjusted on a monthly basis following negotiations and on the basis of index rates.

“This is a third major contract signed by Mechel and Jidong Cement. I am sure that our ties will continue to develop in a constructive manner in the future. It is also important to note that Jidong Cement is a key customer of Elga’s thermal coal in Asia. In 2017 we supplied our Chinese partners with 1.9Mt and another 1.4Mt in 2018. In 2019 we plan to export thermal coal from Elga in comparable volumes,” said Mechel Mining Management’s chief executive officer (CEO) Pavel Shtark.

China: Anhui Conch’s Wuhu Conch subsidiary has installed bag filters on its Line 3 production line. Dust emissions are stable at 7 – 8mg/m³. The cement producer said that this was in full compliance with national emissions standards.

India: UltraTech Cement has renamed its Binani Cement subsidiary UltraTech Nathdwara Cement. The leading Indian cement producer finally acquired Binani Cement in late November 2018 when the Supreme Court supported the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT) approval of its bid for Binani Cement following a legal fight with a consortium led by Dalmia Bharat group.

Binani Cement’s production assets include a 4.85Mt/yr integrated plant at Nathdwara and a 1.4Mt/yr grinding plant at Neem ka Thana, both in Rajasthan. The company also operates plants in China and the UAE. UltraTech Cement’s acquisition will increase its production capacity in the north of the country to around 24Mt/yr, increase its access to limestone reserves and offer it synergies in logistics and procurement.

Uzbekistan: Local company Jo'ydam Tamir Qurilish and three Chinese partners have started building a 1.2Mt/yr cement plant at Bulakbasinsky in the Andijan district. Shangfeng, Tunli and Beijing Triumph International Engineering are the Chinese companies in the project dubbed ‘Shangfeng-Bridge of Friendship.’ The total cost of the project is around US$420m and the first stage of construction is planned for completion by 2020. A later expansion at a cost of US$215m is planned from 2020 to 2023.

Guinea: LafargeHolcim Guinée has ordered a modular grinding plant from China’s CBMI. The deal was signed in late November 2018 and was launched in early December 2018. The project will be based at Dubréka, north of Conakry. For CBMI it is the first modular grinding plant it has officially sold.

Australia: Research by the Global Carbon Budget (GCB) forecasts that CO₂ emissions will grow by 2.7% year-on-year to a 37.1 ± 2 Gt CO₂ in 2018. This follows a rise of 1.6% to 36.2Gt after a three-year hiatus with stable global emissions. The 2018 forecast is based on preliminary data for the first 6 – 9 months indicate a renewed growth in fossil CO₂ emissions based on national emission projections for China, the US, the European Union (EU) and India and projections of gross domestic product corrected for recent changes in the carbon intensity of the economy for the rest of the world.

In 2017 the GCB estimates that cement sector constituted 4% of global fossil CO₂ emissions, a rise of 1.2% from 2016. Emissions are expected to grow by 4% in China in 2018, in part due to a 1% rise in cement production. In the EU emissions are projected to fall by 0.7% with stable cement sector emissions. In India emissions are forecast to increase by 6.3% with a 13.4% rise in cement sector emissions.

Fossil CO₂ emissions are based on energy statistics and cement production data. The research makes its estimate of emissions from the cement industry using a method adapted from a paper published by Robbie M Andrew of Norway’s CICERO Center for International Climate Research in 2017.

Germany: Gerold Keune has resigned as the chairman of the management board of KHD. He cited personal reasons. His resignation takes immediate effect. 

He will be succeeded by Yizhen ‘Mario’ Zhu. He will hold the post until the end of December 2019. In addition, Tao Xing has been appointed as an additional member of the management board. Zhu already served on KHD’s Management Board from 2011 to 2017. Xing served as member of KHD’s Supervisory Board in 2015 and as member of the Management Board in 2016.

Uzbekistan: Construction has started on a 2.4Mt/yr cement plant in the Kattakurgan district of Samarkand. The project has an investment of US$420m, according to the Uzbekistan National News Agency. The first stage of construction will spend US$200m towards building a 1.2Mt/yr plant by 2020. This is expected to create 300 jobs. Then the plant will expand its production capacity from 2020 to 2023. The plant will produce both grey and white Ordinary Portland Cement. China’s Gansu Hengya Cement is investing in the project.

China: Anhui Conch IT Engineering has struck a deal to supply equipment and software design services to Anhui Conch’s plants as part of a smart factory project. The contract has a value of US$12.5m with previously related work over eth last year having an additional value of around US$11m. The work is intended to support the company’s aggregate project construction and enhance its production lines.

Uzbekistan: Representatives of Uzpromstroybank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (UCBC) have met to discuss investment projects in the country to boost local industrial capacity. Proposals included expanding the production capacity of Kuvasoycement’s Kuvasay plant and the construction of a new cement plant, Yaypancement, according to the Trend News Agency.