Prices of spot delivered thermal coal cargoes into Turkey slipped Friday, following a lower-priced deal for US material and buyers willing to wait for cheaper prices, sources said. Platts assessed the weekly CIF Turkey 6,000 kcal/kg ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, US Deals
Domestic cement dispatches in Pakistan during February 2014 increased by 8.7% y/y compared with February 2013, totalling 2.135 million t – the highest figure ever recorded. A spokesperson for the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, cement
Suez Cement and Italcementi s first waste treatment plant in Egypt was inaugurated this week. The project uses 45,000t of household waste to produce 35,000t of alternative fuel annually. Given Egypt s on-going fuel concerns the project will ...
Tags: Cement, Fuel, Suez Cement, Italcementi
Muscat:Oman s cement companies are likely to benefit from a reduction in dumping by the neighbouring UAE producers and better demand for cement from within the country this year,said a top-level analyst. The Sultanate s two cement ...
Tags: Construction, Omani Cement, Cement
China has this week ordered 58 companies, ranging from steel, coke and cement producers, to cut excess production capacity by the end of the year, in the latest attempt to ease overcapacity in bloated sectors. This is the third batch of ...
Tags: Overcapacity, Metallurgy
Domestic cement sales in Indonesia fell 5.8% y/y to 3.3 million t in August 2013. Cement sales fell a more drastic 32% month-on-month, but it should be noted that a two-week holiday in August following Ramadan would have significantly ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Pascal Lesoinne, the chairman of the East African Cement Producers Association (EACPA), has denied that a cartel exists in the Tanzanian cement market. His comments arose at a press conference in Dar es Salaam following action by the ...
Tags: Construction, Cement
CeraTech Inc., the industry s leading producer of durable, high performance, carbon neutral cements for concrete announced an agreement to expand operations into the Middle East and Africa. CeraTech Inc. has entered into a license ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Air Liquide Group, the world's largest industrial gas producer by revenue, has launched the second phase of its investment program, called Tengfei II, in China this year. The program caters to the country's growing demand for oxygen, ...
Tags: Clean Energy Boom
FLSmidth has received orders from two Brazilian cement producers, comprising a new 3300tpd line and a OK-33 vertical roller mill. The new kiln line is for Companhia De Cimento Da Paraíba s Pitimbu Plant, in Brazil's Paraiba state. ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Major infrastructure projects and extensive plans to galvanise residential construction have fuelled demand for building materials in Saudi Arabia, prompting the government to intervene in the cement market for the second time in as many ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
Jose Maria Magrina, Chief Executive Officer of Arabian Cement Company (ACC) announced that the company has taken all the steps needed to substitute natural gas with coal and refused derived fuel (RDF) as energy sources in its plant. He ...
Tags: Fuel, Metallurgy, Mineral&Energy, Arabian Cement
Over the past 12 months, Mondi has worked with South African cement producers to encourage a switch from 3-ply to 2-ply bags. In cooperation with sack converter customers, Mondi has worked to demonstrate the advantages of high porous ...
Tags: South Africa, 2-Ply, Construction&Decoration
c, during which over $233,000 (OR: 90,000) was taken. In a brief statement to the Muscat Securities Market, the firm s chief executive officer Jamal Shamis Al Hooti said that burglars broke into the the firm s sales department and stole ...
Tags: Oman Cement, Cement
Vietnam: Cement producers in Vietnam lost at least US$80m in 2012 in a bid to undercut each other, according to Tran Van Huynh, Chairman of Vietnam Building Material Association. Huynh made the comment as he warned that producers face huge ...
Tags: Cement Producers, Cement