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In Japan by August, the accumulated cement production in calendar year 2023 declined by -12.6% to 30.976 Mt, after 35.447 Mt accumulated production by August 2022. In July there has been a short positive development, when the monthly production declined…
According to Federbeton, the Italian Cement and Concrete Industry Association, the cement production in Italy declined by -8.8% in 2022 to 18.797 Mta, after 20.621 Mta in 2021. However, these production data do not fit with the data by the…
Holcim Romania is investing over Euro 25m to increase the production capacity of its cement plant in Campulung by 20% from 1.3 Mta to about 1.6 Mta. The purpose of the new investment is to address the existing need for…
West International Holding, which is a subsidiary of China West Cement, invests in a 6000 tpd cement plant in Uganda. The investment cost for the project is US$ 300m, which will produce 2.2 Mta cement. The new plant will be…
After the huge 2-digit cement production decline in 2022, in the first 8 month of 2023, the cement production increased by +0.4%, YoY. However, in August 2023 with a volume of 197.25 Mt the cement production declined -2.0%, YoY.
Cemento País started clinker grinding at its stand-alone Tubaco cement grinding plant in Tubaco on the North Coast of Colombia. The project represents an investment of more than US$ 20m and has a production capacity of 0.475 Mta, approximately 15%…
In Peru, in the first 8 month of 2023, the cement production is with a volume of 7.468 Mt still -13.5% below the volume of 8.635 Mt in the same period in 2022, however since March 2023 the YoY decline…
Ash Grove Cement, a CRH Company, has announced plans to build a new cement mill at its cement plant in Durkee, Oregon. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024. The new cement mill will transform…
In Brazil, the cement dispatch in the first 8 month of 2023 is with 41.707 Mt still -1.3% below the cement dispatch in the same period in 2022, but after the -1.8% YoY decline in the first half, in August…
Orient Cement Limited has commissioned the 1st phase of a Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS) at its Chittapur 3.0 Mta cement plant in Karnataka, India. In this phase a AQC boiler along with a turbine and air cooled condenser is…