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Start-up company Brimstone has developed a new method to produce cement from carbon-free silicate rock, instead of calcining limestone. The company, which is located in Oakland, California, achieved an ASTA C150 quality certification and is now scaling up the production…
In the first 8 months of 2023, Vietnam’s cement and clinker exports have decreased by 4.2% in volume and 5.7% in value compared to the same period last year, reaching 21.25 Mt and US$ 923m, compared to the same period…
Intercem Engineering has been awarded a contract for a new cement grinding plant in West Africa. The scope of delivery includes a 300 t/h vertical roller mill (VRM) and all materials handling and storage, including clinker unloading, and storage as…
In Kyrgyzstan, after a cement production increase of +3.9%% in the 1.Q 2023, the production in the 2.Q 2023 increased by another +14.4%, YoY. Accordingly, in the 1.H 2023 the cement production increased by +8.8% to 1.380 Mt, after 1.268…
In Kazakhstan, after a huge cement production decline of -16.9% in the 1.Q 2023, the production in the 2.Q 2023 increased by +2.6, YoY. However, this still leads in the 1.H 2023 to a cement production decline by -4.7% to…
Domicem, which is part of Italian Colocem Spa, commissioned at Sabana Grande de Palenque a 3500 tpd kiln line and expanded their cement capacity in the Dominican Republic to 3.8 Mta. The new kiln line was built by Sinoma CBMI…
In Tajikistan the cement production in the 1.H 2023 increased by +4.1% to 2.094 Mt after 2.012 Mt the same period in 2022. The production especially increased in 2.Q by +14.7%, YoY, while in 1.Q there has been still a…
In the first half in 2023, the cement production in Belarus increased by +7.6% to 2.201 Mt, from 2.046 Mt the same period in 2022. However, in the 2nd quarter 2023 the production impressively increased by +38.5% to 1.474 Mt,…
Udaipur Cement Works Limited (UCWL), which is a subsidiary of JK Lakshmi Cement announced the commissioning of its 2nd clinkerisation unit. The line has a clinker capacity of 1.5 Mta as the first line at Udaipur in Rajasthan, India. At…
In Peru in the first 9 month of 2023 the cement production declined by -13.9% to 8.464 Mt after 9.825 Mt in the same period in 2022. However, the decline stabilized in the 3.Q 2023 with -12.4% YoY. Anyhow, a…