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White cement production down 11.5%
15 June 2015Tunisia: According to the African Manager website, white cement production in Tunisia fell by 11.5% to 141,000t in the first four months of 2015 compared with 160,000t in the same period in 2014. According to deputy director of construction materials industries at the Ministry of Industry Taoufik Khardani, white cement sales fell by 8.8% to 59,000t during the period, down from 64,500t in 2014. Some 87,400t of white cement was exported in the first four months of 2015 compared to 102,400t in 2014.
Directors shuffle in Tunisia
03 September 2014Tunisia: Jalel Ben Othmane has been appointed Director General of Ciments de Bizerte in replacement of Ibrahim Sanaa who in turn has been appointed Director General of the Carthage Cement.
Tunisia: Carthage Cement Company's turnover for the first six months of 2014 amounted to US$87.5m excluding VAT, up by 419% compared to the same period of 2013. Clinker sales totalled US$16.6m, while cement sales amounted to US$55.1m, including US$14.5m of exports. Sales of ready-mix concrete grew by 25% compared to the same period in 2013.
Geometrica supplies Carthage Cement with bulk storage structures
19 February 2014Tunisia: Geometrica has released details of bulk-storage structures built for Carthage Cement at its Djebel Ressas cement plant in 2013. The dome and space frame structure builder supplied three storage buildings for additives, coal and limestone. The additives and coal longitudinal buildings are 200m and 300m long respectively with a span of 50m. The limestone building is a 90m circular dome.
Carthage Cement contracted FLSmidth to supply machinery and engineering at the 5800t/day cement plant. Turkish contractor, EKON, was FLSmidth's partner for the civil works, including civil design, supply of structural steel and plate work, site preparation, plant erection. Construction at the plant started in late 2010 and was completed in 2013.
Carthage Cement to restart production at 2.2Mt/yr plant
09 September 2013Tunisia: Carthage Cement, the cement plant confiscated after the 2010 – 2011 Tunisian Revolution, has restarted its precalciner kiln ahead of a resumption of production. According to its Director General Riadh Ben Khalifa, the cement plant plans to sell at least 2.2Mt/yr.
Molins operating new plant in Tunisia
10 May 2012Tunisia: A new cement plant has begun production in the region of Rouissat Chbika in the governorate of Kairouan, Tunisia. It is a unit of the Tunisian-Spanish Company SOTACIB, a subsidiary of Spanish group Cementos Molins and has cost the company US$2890m. It has created 350 jobs and will produce 4000t/day once it is fully commissioned.