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US: GCP Applied Technologies has launched two new cement additives: Opteva HE quality improvers and Tavero VM grinding aids. Opteva HE is intended to enhance early strength and is targeted at ‘challenging’ cements. Tavero VM is a grinding aid additive intended to help stabilise vertical roller mills during production by reducing water injection requirements and cement pre-hydration. It also improves cement performance by delivering higher strengths and shorter setting time. The company intends to expand its range of additives for cement production under the Opteva and Tavero brands.

India: Shri Naveen Patnaik, the Chief Minister of Odisha, has laid the foundation stone for a 1.2Mt/yr cement grinding plant that JSW Cement is building at Kalinganagar in Jajpur. The plant is scheduled to start operations in 2018, according to the Orissa Diary. Once the unit is commissioned the cement producer has plans to double its production capacity to 2.4Mt/yr.