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Holcim Saint Genevieve will increase its cement capacity by 20% with installing a 5th cement grinding mill. The capacity expansion is because of an intended larger production of blended cements and other plant upgrades (ccf2up reported 21. Oct. 2023) The…
In 2023, Armenia’s cement consumption massively increased by 29.1% to 1.530 Mta, after 1.185 Mta in 2022. The per capita cement consumption (PCC) increased from 395 kg to 509 kg!
90% In 2023, Armenia’s cement production increased by 13.1% to 1.136 Mta, after 1.004 Mta in 2022. The cement capacity utilization increased from 80.3% to 90.8%, which will result into a capacity expansion in the near term.
Holcim is working on its Go4EcoPlanet CCS-Project at the Kujawy cement plant in Poland since some 1 ½ years and still needs a long time to go. The planned system will use the unique Cryocap™ FG technology by Air Liquide…
Heidelberg Materials signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for their CCS project at Padeswood cement in Flintshire, UK. This comes after the company choose already about a year ago Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ KM CDR solvent-based process for the…
In 2023 in Chile, the cement dispatch declined by -11.0% to 5.209 Mta, after 5.855 Mta in 2022. The dispatch even declined below the level of the COVID year in 2020. The cement capacity utilization declined from 67.3% in 2022…
In El Salvador, in the period from January to November 2023, the cement consumption increased by +1.6% YoY to 1.633 Mt. In November, the consumption increased by +27% YoY, which turned the accumulated consumption from minus -0.7% in October to…
Huaxin Cement commissioned the new 4000 tpd kiln line of Maweni Limestone Limited (MLL) in the Tanga Region of Tanzania. The construction of the project (Phase II) started on July 26, 2022 with a groundbreaking ceremony (photo). It is the…
The Adani Group signed a MoU with the Govt. of Telangana in India to invest Rs 1,400 crore to set up a 6.0 Mta cement plant in the next five years. This project, announced 2 weeks ago, would be put…
In Bolivia, in the period from January to November 2023, the cement consumption increased by +4.9% to 3.626 Mt, after 3.458 Mt in the same period in 2022. Interestingly, alone in November 2023 the consumption increased by +22.7% YoY to…