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Birla Corporation plans 3.9Mt/yr integrated cement plant
27 January 2020India: Birla Corporation has published plans for the construction of a 3.9Mt/yr-capacity integrated cement plant with a 40MW fossil fuel power plant and an 11MW waste heat recovery (WHR) plant at Mukutban, Maharashtra, which it says it will commission by March 2021. The Business Standard newspaper has reported that Birla Corporation, which is upgrading the clinker production capacity at its 2.5Mt/yr integrated Chanderia plant in Rajasthan to 3.0Mt/yr, will also upgrade its 0.6Mt/yr Kundarganj grinding plant in Uttar Pradesh to a capacity of 1.2Mt/yr. The planned projects will bring Birla Corporation to 20Mt/yr in installed capacity, making it India’s fifth-largest cement producer.
Cemenco commissions cement plant
16 January 2020Liberia: HeidelbergCement subsidiary Cemenco has commissioned a 0.3Mt/yr cement plant in Liberia following an investment of US$14m. The Daily Observer newspaper has reported that the plant is equipped with a 2000t silo, bulk truck unloading equipment and a bagging line, in addition to four Samson Eco Hoppers for dust-free delivery in the Port of Monrovia. Cemenco already operates a 0.8Mt/yr grinding plant on Bushroda Island in Monrovia.
Chettinad Cement Corp. Pvt. Ltd. orders Gebr. Pfeiffer mill
16 January 2020India: Gebr. Pfeiffer has announced that it has received an order for one MVR 6000 C-6 roller mill for Chettinad Cement Corp. Pvt. Ltd.’s upcoming 2.0Mt/yr Vishakapatnam granulated blast-furnace slag (GBFS) and slag cement
Grinding plant in Andhra Pradesh. Gebr. Pfeiffer said the mill will grind slag and cement to a fineness of between 3000 and 3800 blaine at a rate of between 235t/hr and 340t/hr. It says the mill improves plant availability by the active redundancy of the grinding rollers, enabling mill operation with reduced rollers in the event of maintenance work or a malfunction.
Togo: HeidelbergCement has announced plans to bring the capacity of its subsidiary Cimtogo’s grinding plant in Lomé up to 1.6Mt/yr from 0.6Mt/yr at an investment of Euro27.0m. Agencé Ecofin has reported that this will bring the German group’s total investment in Cimtogo to Euro225m since its acquisition in 2012.
Oman Cement Company issues tender for Duqm plant
03 January 2020Oman: Alsahawa Cement Company (ACC), the newly-founded Oman Cement Company (OCC) subsidiary, will operate the group’s upcoming Duqm cement plant, for which an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract tender has been issued. Bidding is due to close on 27 February 2020.
The new facility will include a coal-fired power plant and waste heat recovery (WHR) power plant. OCC Chief Executive Officer Salim Abdullah Al Hajiri described the commissioning of the 1.7Mt/yr integrated plant as a ‘reverse integration’ process, whereby the plant will initially grind clinker produced at other OCC cement plants beginning in September 2021 before upgrading to fully integrated cement production in March 2022.
Sinotrans transports cement from Angola to DRC
30 December 2019Angola: Chinese-based Sinotrans has exported 800t of cement on the 1344km railway journey from Cimenfort’s 0.4Mt/yr Lobito grinding plant to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Angola Press Agency has reported that the cement was ground from clinker produced in China. Cimenfort sales coordinator Francisco Idelfrides suggested that the cement company may look to expand its production capacity in 2020. He said it sold 0.3Mt of cement in eastern Angola and the DRC in 2019.
CRH to sell up in Brazil
27 December 2019Brazil: Ireland-based CRH has engaged the US-based bank Citigroup to seek buyers for its Brazilian business, which consists of the integrated 0.7Mt/yr Arcos plant and 0.6Mt/yr Cantaglo plant and the 1.0Mt/yr Santa Luzia grinding plant, according to the Brazilian Valor newspaper. CRH acquired the assets from Holcim and Lafarge at the time of the merger of the Swiss and French companies.
Odisha state government announces 27 projects
03 December 2019India: The government of the state of Odisha will invest US$1.25bn in infrastructure development, including construction of several industrial facilities. These will include a 1.0Mt/yr integrated plant owned by JSW Cement subsidiary Shiva Cement and a total of 4.0Mt/yr grinding capacity in new Shiva Cement and Shree Cement plants. The projects will source their cement from Odisha’s existing installed capacity of 7.3Mt/yr, consisting of 3.8Mt/yr integrated and 3.5Mt/yr grinding capacity at plants owned and operated by Dalmia Bharat’s OCC India, Toshali Cement, UltraTech Cement and Lafarge Holcim’s ACC Cement.
Iranian province invests in Iraqi cement plant
27 November 2019Iraq: Iran’s Khuzestan province plans to invest in a US$35m cement plant project in Al-Emareh. Deputy Governor General for Coordinating Economic Affairs Nourollah Hassanzadeh said it was a joint initiative with Iraq, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). The project was launched in the mid-2010s and is reported to be in its ‘final’ stages. The Iranian province borders Iraq and it hopes to increase its international investment profile.
Birla Corporation and RCCPL buy stake in AMPSolar Clean Power
20 November 2019India: Birla Corporation and its subsidiary RCCPL have acquired a 26% stake in AMPSolar Clean Power. The cement producer plans to buy solar power for its Raebareli cement grinding plants and its Kundanganj cement grinding plant.