Contracts and projects

  • Cemex has announced plans to restart the Tepeaca expansion project, which will bring cement capacity to 7.6 million tpa by 2017.
  • Holcim Ecuador is modernising its Guayaquil plant with the help of a loan from Corporación Andina de Fomento.
  • United Cement Company of Nigeria (UNICEM) has ordered the largest Loesche mill to date, an LM 70.4+4.
  • KORFEZ ENG. has received a follow-up order for a compartment mill shell lining in Turkey, and a new order for a mill conversion project in South Africa.
  • The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide the Italcementi Group with a loan of around €20 million for a revamp project at the Shymkent cement plant in Kazakhstan.

    • Environment and conservation

  • Four of Lehigh Hanson’s cement plants have earned the EPA’s ENERGY STAR® certification for 2014, registering in the top 25% of cement plants nationwide for energy efficiency.
  • Cemex has partnered with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature to release the latest edition of its Cemex Nature Series ‘The IUCN Red List: 50 Years of Conservation’.
  • The David Ball Group’s Cemfree was recognised by Skanska for its green credentials, picking up the Award for Supply Chain Green Solutions at the construction company’s annual management conference.

World Cement’s December issue is now available!

The December issue of World Cement features a plant tour of Semen Indonesia’s Tuban 4, a Keynote on ‘Financial Steering of Energy-Intensive Companies Using Hedging’ by Vattenfall, as well as a regional report on the Turkish cement sector. In addition to all of this, the issue also comprises articles on gears, drives and lubrication, materials handling, refractories and quarry rehabilitation.

This week's not to be missed articles...

  • Italy’s Competition & Market Authority (AGCM) has awarded Italcementi its legality rating with three stars, the top class in the rating.
  • Britpave welcomes new report that has found that more than 976 000 new homes could be built on identified brownfield sites in the UK.

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