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In 2023, in the USA the cement dispatch declined by -3.0%, YoY, to 90.400 Mta, of which 88.0 Mta is Portland and blended cement and 2.4 Mta is masonry cement (preliminary). The cement dispatch does not include cement exports and…
Russia’s cement production continued its growth with an increase by +3.5% to 62.851 Mta in 2023 and 60.665 Mta in 2022. The cement capacity utilization of the plants under operation increased from 70.5% in 2022 to 73.1% in 2023.
Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC) and thyssenkrupp Polysius signed a memorandum of understanding to build an Oxyfuel calciner at TCC’s Hoping plant (photo) in Taiwan. The new calciner shall be integrated into the existing production, which comprises 3 kiln lines. The…
Nuvoco Vistas Corporation, which is part of the India’s Nirma Group, commissioned the 1.2 Mta Haryana cement grinding plant in Bhiwani, Northern India. The company started into the cement business in 2014 and has become India’s 5th largest cement group…
In the first half of FY 2023-24 (period from July to December 2023) the cement export revenue of the cement exporters in Bangladesh increased by almost 50% to 8.294 US$m. This comes after a YoY increase of 15.2% in the…
In 2023, Estonia’s cement production again declined significantly by -25.5% to 0.199 Mta, after 0.267 Mta in 2022 and 0.367 Mta in 2021. The cement capacity utilization declined from 29.7% in 2022 to only 22.1% in 2023.
The Ravenna Hub in Northeast Italy aims to become the pioneer CCS hub in the Mediterranean for the storage of captured CO2 in depleted gas reservoirs in the Adriatic off the coast of Ravenna. The hub will be operated by…
In Japan in the last two years, the cement exports nearly halved from 11.460 Mta 2021 to ‘only’ 6.478 Mta in 2023. Since 2021, in each year year there has been a 2-digit YoY decline, the massive minus of 32.3%…
In 2023, in Japan the annual cement production declined by -10.4% to 47.656 Mta, after 53.207 Mta in 2022 and 55.580 Mta in 2021. The cement capacity utilization declined from 78.2% in 2022 to 70.1% in 2023.
UltraTech Cement commissioned its new 2.6 Mta greenfield grinding unit at Rajpura in the Punjab State in India. The plant is one of the phase II projects, announced in June 2022, of 22.6 Mta new capacity projects in India. Alone,…