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Tanzania: Industry, Trade and Investment minister Charles Mwijage says that senior officials from the Treasury and Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) are finalising talks with China’s Sinoma and Hengya Cement about building a US$1bn cement plant in the Mkinga District, Tanga Region. The discussions are focusing on incentives to be offered to the investors and the location of a jetty, according to the Citizen newspaper. The plant will have an initial cement production capacity of 2.5Mt/yr with an eventual target of 7Mt/yr following further investment. Future plans also include generating 1200MW of electricity at the site. The overall cost of the expanded project is forecast to be US$2bn.
PPC plans Western Cape ‘mega-plant’
29 November 2017South Africa: PPC is planning a ‘mega-plant’ in the Western Cape Province. Johan Claassen, PPC’s interim chief executive, stated that it was looking to replace its Reibeeck plant with a ‘semi-brownfield’ facility that used around 25% of the current plant’s equipment. The company has long planned to expand its Western Cape capacity but domestic demand has not yet been high enough to justify the investment. There has been overcapacity in the market as well as imports from other regions, both of which have depressed cement prices.
Claassen said that the plant would cost around US$200/t of installed capacity, without mentioning the intended capacity. He said that financing was already in place. He added that PPC had been able to increase its selling prices by 2% in the six months to 30 September 2017 and that, even with slow growth, South Africa would need the additional capacity supplied by the new plant by 2020.
Claassen said that a formal announcement would be likely in early 2018.
Two more Algerian plants
27 November 2017Algeria: Already an exporter of cement, Algeria is set to gain two further cement plants by 2020. The CEO of GICA Group, Rabah Guessoum, has indicated that his group has already begun construction of a 1Mt/yr plant in Béchar and a 2Mt/yr plant at Sigus, Oum El Bouaghi.
By 2020 the group will reach a cement production capacity of around 20Mt/yr. Regarding exports, Guessoum noted that with the satisfaction of domestic demand, the surplus will be exported to other African countries, in accordance with the guidelines of the public authorities. He said, "Currently we are in discussion with international operators to form possible partnerships to place our products internationally."
Eagle starts construction of Cebu plant
24 November 2017Philippines: Eagle Cement has started construction of a US$246m cement plant in Malabuyoc, Cebu, as part of a wider expansion drive. The 2Mt/yr plant will have dedicated terminals for domestic transit of cement and export. It will take Eagle Cement’s capacity to 9.1Mt/yr once it and an expansion at the company’s Bulacan plant are completed. Cebu will come online in 2020, with the Bulacan expansion completed in 2018.
"We are expanding more to new markets such as Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao,” said Eagle’s President and CEO Paul Ang. “By 2018, our third line in Bulacan will be fully functional to serve those areas, with the most efficient and energy saving manufacturing technology.”
Rudny Cement plant delayed to 2018
10 November 2017Kazakhstan: The opening of the Rudny Cement plant has been delayed to 2018. The regional government said that the US$44m project is in the final stage of completion, according to Interfax. The 0.5Mt/yr plant has been postponed several times since 2010 due to a lack of finance. The most recent plan was to start production by the end of 2017.
Beijing Triumph International Engineering to build US$160m cement plant in Uzbekistan
03 November 2017Uzbekistan: Beijing Triumph International Engineering, a subsidiary of China National Building Material’s (CNBM), has signed a US$160m deal with Eurocement’s subsidiary Akhangarancement to build a new 3Mt/yr cement plant. The contract was signed during Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's official visit to the Central Asian country, according to InterFax. The project will be completed by 2020. Eurocement chairman Filaret Galchev and Uzstroymaterialy chief executive officer (CEO) Botir Zaripov signed the agreement on project implementation during Medvedev's visit.
Akhangarancement operates a 2.2Mt/yr cement plant. It holds a 30% share of the Uzbek market. The plant also exports to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. Eurocement purchased a 75.5% stake of Akhangarancement in August 2006 and bought the remaining share in 2013. It originally signed a US$128m contract with China CAMC Engineering, a division of Sinomach, in 2014 for construction of a plant that was supposed to open in 2016. However, construction was subsequently cancelled.
Africa: FLSmidth says that a contract for a cement plant valued at more than Euro100m in an unspecified location in North Africa is now effective. The change in the project’s status follows the completion of carious conditions, including the receipt of a down payment for the work.
The order is in part a result of the partnership between FLSmidth and Beijing Triumph International Engineering Company, a company under the China National Building Material Group Corporation (CNBM Group), which will be responsible for the construction of the cement plant. The plant will mainly supply cement to the North African market. Once completed, the cement plant will have a capacity of 12,000t/day. The includes engineering, equipment supply, construction supervision, commissioning and training.
Bolivian mining group calls for new cement plant
01 November 2017Bolivia: The mining industry chamber in Tarija wants governor Adrian Oliva to build a new cement plant in Mendez province. The proposal follows confirmation by the National Geology and Mining Technician Service (Sernageomin) of ‘large’ limestone deposits, according to the El País newspaper. Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento (Soboce) currently operates a 0.2Mt/yr plant at El Puente in the same region.
Cempor fights legal action from UNACEM over Lima plant project
31 October 2017Peru: UNACEM has filed a lawsuit alleging environmental violations against Cempor. Cempor, a joint venture between Chile’s Cementos Bío Bío and Brazil’s Votorantim, plans to build a cement plant in Lima, according to the La Tercera newspaper. The legal move is the latest action in a long running battle between the cement producers over the project. Cempor has responded by alleging to National Institute for the Defence of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) that UNACEM’s conduct is contrary to the functioning of a free market.
Cementos Bío Bío and Votorantim originally formed Cempor in 2010 with each company holding a 29.5% stake. The other owners include IPSA and the World Cement Group with a 20.5% stake each. At this time Cempor planned to build a 07Mt/yr cement plant near Lima.
New Eurocement plant for Kaliningrad
24 October 2017Russia: Russian construction materials producer Eurocement Group plans to build a cement plant in the Danor industrial area in the exclave of Kaliningrad. The intention is to reduce the region’s dependence on outside supplies, according to a local government statement. The sum of the investment will be calculated in December 2017.