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Moreno to oversee Sonson plant construction
06 September 2017Colombia: Organizacion Corona has announced that its President Carlos Enrique Moreno will be replaced by Jaime Alberto Angel from October 2017 as head of the Corona Industrial division. Angel will oversee the construction of a US$400m cement plant in the Sonson Municipality of Antioquia, which the group is building as a joint venture project with Spain’s Cementos Molins. The 1.35Mt/yr plant is expected to come online in early 2019.
Moreno said that the decision to split the company’s management was due to the construction of the cement plant. Angel will also look after Corona’s bathrooms and kitchens, materials and paints, energy and industrial supplies and tableware divisions.
Star Cement to invest US$156m on expansion plans
05 September 2017India: Star Cement plans to invest US$156m towards building a new clinker grinding plant and expanding the clinker production line of its existing plant at Lumshnong in Meghalaya. The cement producer plans to build a new 1.5 – 2Mt/yr grinding plant for US$47m at Siliguri in West Bengal, according to the Hindu newspaper. It also intends to spend US$109m on doubling clinker production to 5Mt/yr at the plant in Siliguri by 2020. The investment will be funded internally and by loans.
Nepalese investment body signs deals with Hongshi-Shivam Cement
04 September 2017Nepal: The Investment Board of Nepal (IBN) has signed a project investment agreement worth US$359m with China’s Hongshi-Shivam Cement in connection with a cement plant being built at Nawalparasi. The agreement is the first of its kind signed by the IBN with a private sector company and it will last 15 years, according to the Kathmandu Post newspaper. The investment deal is the biggest made by a foreign company in the country’s manufacturing sector.
Hongshi-Shivam Cement is a joint venture between Nepal’s Shivam Holdings, which also produces Shivam brand of cement, and Hong Kong Red Lion Cement No 3, a subsidiary of China’s Hongshi Group. The Chinese company owns a 70% stake in the joint venture. Commercial production of cement is planned to start at the plant in 2018.
Lion cement brand to launch in Cameroon in October 2017
04 September 2017Cameroon: Egin (Entreprise générale industrielle) plans to launch Lion brand cement in October 2017. The company signed an investment agreement with the government’s Investment Promotion Agency (API) in late Augut 2017, according to local press. Around US$15m has been invested in a production unit based in Douala. The site is expcted to employ 30 workers.
Taiheiyo Cement to build fly ash washing plant at its Oita plant
01 September 2017Japan: Taiheiyo Cement plans to establish a fly ash washing plant at its Oita cement plant. It will collect fly ash generated by local government wastedisposal facilities and use this as a raw material to produce cement. In 2016 Taiheiyo Cement entered into a three-way agreement for the promotion of a recycling-based society with the local governments of Oita and Tsukumi and took part in talks concerning the recycling of waste materials generated within Oita Prefecture. Bottom ash generated by waste disposal facilities has been used at the Oita plant since 2007.
BUA plant commissioning increases Nigeria’s capacity further
31 August 2017Nigeria: The Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo commissioned the 3Mt/yr second kiln line at the BUA Obu Cement plant at Okpella, Edo State on 30 August 2017. He had earlier performed the ground-breaking ceremony at the start of the construction phase of the line. Once the line is fully commissioned in early 2018, it will bring the plant’s capacity to 6Mt/yr.
"This project is a big boost to the Nigerian economy and it will provide employment opportunity for both the skilled and unskilled youths of this state and the country at large," said Osinbajo, adding that the plant's capacity would consolidate Nigeria's self-sufficiency in cement and be a big boost to the nation's export capacity
PPC highlights import risk to Colleen Bawn plant
29 August 2017Zimbabwe: PPC Zimbabwe has hinted that it may be looking to shut down its Colleen Bawn Cement plant in Gwanda, citing pressure from cheaper imported clinker as well as smuggled cement coming over the border. If it decides to close the plant, the move would represent a significant blow for PPC Zimbabwe and PPC’s wider activities outside of its native South Africa.
The management has appealed to the government for protection, stating that, unless measures are put in place to curb cheap imports, the firm risks losing its investment at Colleen Bawn. It estimates that a wider community of around 4000 rely indirectly on the plant for their livelihoods. The plant has been in operation for more than 70 years.
Country managing director Mr Kelibone Masiyane said, “The cost of production is very high in Zimbabwe when compared to the rest of the region. Our competitors are importing clinker at cheaper cost and they are jumping the production process. The biggest challenge here at Colleen Bawn is that we incur huge costs producing clinker and because of this there is a risk of closure of the plant and opting to import clinker as well.”
However, Masiyane expressed confidence that the engagements PPC Zimbabwe was having with the government would result in ‘fruitful’ interventions that would protect the firm and avert negative effects. He said that the company’s major cost driver was electricity costs, which are much higher than in neighbouring countries.
In response Deputy Minister Mabuwa said that the government appreciated the strategic economic role of the cement manufacturing sector and would address the plight of PPC. She concurred that, while cement was removed from the open general import license, continued clinker imports were having a negative effect on the value chain.
Soma Cimento orders clinker production line from KHD
25 August 2017Turkey: Soma Cimento has ordered a 4000t/day clinker production line from KHD for its plant at Soma near Manisa. The contract includes engineering, equipment supply, and supervision of erection and commissioning, including KHD’s Simulex plant simulation system, which will simulate the operation of the plant. Commissioning of the plant is scheduled for the spring of 2018.
The core components of KHD’s new line are: a five-stage KHD Preheater with Pyroclon-R LowNOx AF calciner, equipped with Pyrotop compact mixing chamber, tertiary air duct and Pyrobox calciner firing system; a Pyrorapid two-tire rotary kiln, with a diameter of 4.6m; a Pyro-jet kiln burner; and a Pyrofloor clinker cooler equipped with a Pyrocrusher System.
This project will be the third commissioning of KHD’s Low-NOx calciner with Pyroloop Technology in Turkey. It will be KHD’s 51st kiln line in Turkey. No value for the order has bee disclosed.
Cuba: The Cuban cement industry is operating at a 58% capacity utilisation rate, according to the CiberCuba website. The low rate has been blamed on logistic and electricity supply problems.
Work on Potosí cement plant starts
23 August 2017Bolivia: Imasa has started ground work has started on the US$300m Potosí cement plant near Chuitara following an inspection of the site. The 1.3Mt/yr plant is being built by Imasa, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions and Valoriza for Empresa Publica Productiva Cementos de Bolivia (ECEBOL), according to the El Potosí newspaper. Located at 4000m above sea level it will be one of the highest plants in the world when it becomes operational.