Displaying items by tag: Ciments de Bizerte

Tunisia: Ciments de Bizerte is planning to upgrade the cement grinding capacity by 20% at its plant in Bizerte. Other anticipated upgrades include the installation of a new 10,000t cement silo and the contruction of a captive wind farm, according to the L'Economiste Maghrébin magazine.

Tunisia: Ciments de Bizerte has restarted exports of clinker and cement after a hiatus of ten years. A shipment of 25,000t of clinker disembarked from the cement producer’s port to Cameroon in early April 2018, according to La Presse de Tunisie newspaper. The local cement industry has an overcapcty of 1Mt/yr.

Tunisia: Ciments de Bizerte’s cement and lime deliveries rose by 3% year-on-year to 0.63Mt in 2017 from 0.61Mt in 2016. Overall the cement producer’s turnover increased by 3.74%, according to African Manager. It reported a total turnover of US$25m in 2016. Upgrade work to the plant’s wharf is expected to increase exports in 2018 as well as receives petcoke supplies.

Tunisia: Ciments de Bizerte has nearly doubled its loss to Euro5.7m in the first half of 2017 compared to Euro3m in the same period in 2016. The cement producer’s revenue fell by 8.4% year-on-year and its operating income fell to a loss of Euro2.5m from Euro1.9m, according to the L'Économiste maghrébin magazine. The company operates a single cement plant at Bizerte with a clinker production capacity of 0.9Mt/yr.

Tunisia: Ciments de Bizerte's sales increased by 2.3% year-on-year to US$160,937 in the third quarter of 2015. Clinker production grew by 47.5% to 55,050t during the quarter.

Domestic sales in the first nine months of 2015 grew by 21.8% to US$3.64m. Total sales grew by 4.25% to US$832,581 due to falling exports, which was mainly due to fluctuation of the Algerian market and the virtual absence of demand from the Libyan market.