China’s Sinoma to build $85m cement factory in Chelyabinsk region

24 Aug 2010 Chinese cement manufacturer Sinoma International Engineering Co. Ltd.

 intends to invest $85m building a plant to produce cement in Chelyabinsk region, regional officials report. 
The plant, to be located in the region’s Varnensky district, is reportedly to create 250 local jobs.
The plant’s projected annual capacity is 500,000 tons of cement.
Production is scheduled to be launched in 2014.

 NEW PLANT FOR ANGOLA (US$430)million

According to reports, a new 1.6 million tpa cement plant will be built by a three-way joint venture of Angolan and international investors. The plant, to be named Palanca Cimentos, will be located in Lobito, in Angola’s Benguela province.

Angola’s Gema will hold a 40% stake in the US$430 million plant, with Escom (Portugal) and Camargo Corrêa (Brazil) each holding a 30% stake. Local news sources say a contract was signed yesterday, 26 July 2010, in Luanda with the National Private Investment Agency (ANIP), and the laying of the first stone is scheduled for tomorrow, 28 July 2010. Construction of the plant will begin within the next four months. Once complete, the plant will produce 1.8 million tpa of clinker and will create 550 direct jobs.

Cement was the most imported product to Angola in 2009, with 10.5 million t making up almost 21% of the country’s imports. No doubt that figure will have a number of investors looking at opportunities to establish new plants in the country, or exporting from neighbouring countries.

Camargo Corrêa has made no secrets of its expansion plans. Following its takeover bid for Cimpor earlier this year, when it bought a 33% stake in the Portuguese company, Camargo Corrêa Cimentos has announced investments of R$ 14 billion to position itself among the top ten cement producers in the world by 2014. It plans to expand facilities and increase acquisitions in Brazil and Africa.

Published on 27/07/2010

New Cement Plant ($200m) to be Built in Muthanna

Posted on 03 October 2010. Tags: cement, Muthana, Muthanna

A private-sector company is to invest £200m to build acement factory with a capacity of one million tons and a total cost of $200 million [240 billion Iraqi dinars] in Muthanna, a source from Muthanna’s Investment Commission said on Sunday.

“We have completed all legal measures for contracting and handing over the land for the construction of a cement plant by the al-Mabrouka [Al Mabroka] company, covering an area of 350 donums [87.5 hectares] in al-Fadwa village, 20 km southwest of Samawa,” Ali Hannoun told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Construction is understood to begin within days, and will be completed withing two and a half years.

This plant is in addition to the Chinese CNMB plant we reported on in August.

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 Lipetsk Mortgage Co to build a $445m cement Factory

State-run Lipetsk Mortgage Corporation has announced $445m plans to build a cement factory in the region.
The project is reportedly to be finaced witj loans from Chinese banks, organized by China National Machinery Import&Export Corporation.
Under plans, the plant is to be built on an 800-hectare site in the region’s Eletsk district.
The plant’s projected annual capacity is two million tons of cement.
Timeframes for the project have yet to be announced.

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EIIC to build US $408m cement factory in Abu Dhabi

 By Staff Writer/ Saturday, 22 December 2007 4:00 AM / http://www.arabianbusiness.com

Emirates International Investment Company (EIIC) is to establish a US $408 million (AED1.5billion) clinker-cement factory in Abu Dhabi.

Clinker is a solid material used to produce cement and mortar, and if stored properly, can be traded internationally in large quantities.

Construction of the factory will commence in January and will be built across three phases within three years. The factory is expected to be ready for production by the end of 2010.

   Portuguese group SLNI to build US$294 million cement factory in Angola

http://www.cementchina.net [2010-5-27]

 Portuguese group Sociedade Lusa de Negocios (SLNI) is to build a cement factory in Angola under the terms of a contract signed Monday in Luanda with the Angolan National Private Investment Agency (ANIP), Angolan news agency Angop reported.

The project know as SLN – Fabrica de Cimento e Clinker de Benguela (Benguela Cement and Clinker Factory) represents an investment of US$294 million and involves the Angolan Armed Forces Social Security System and other private national investors.

The project, which will be built in the city of Lobito, Benguela province, and is due to begin in 90 days, will begin with construction of support facilities and social equipment, as well as creation of port and rail facilities.

SLN – Fabrica de Cimento e Clinker de Benguela, which will take four years to build, in its first three years is expected to produce 910,000 tons of cement, which will increase to 1.8 million tons by 2016.

The SLNI group project was approved by the Angolan government in October, 2009.

The China Development Bank is to fund US$100 million construction of a cement factory in Beluluane

(2010-05-18) in Mozambique’s Maputo province costing US$100 million, the director of the Centre for Investment Promotion said Monday in Maputo.
Mohamed Rafique said that construction work on the cement factory, a project promoted by Chinese investors that have obtained funding from the China Development bank via the China-Africa Development Fund, could begin within the next few days and that next week a government team would visit the location where the factory was to be set up.
Rafique also said that the new factory would have capacity to produce 1 million tons of cement per year and added that as well as regulating the price of cement on the Mozambican market, it could also supply some countries in Southern Africa.
The poor supply of cement and the high construction costs are two of the most serious obstacles to construction projects moving ahead, particularly those of the State.
The director of the CPI said that his institution had approved four investment projects for construction of cement factories in Southern Mozambique.
Amongst the interested parties there are investors from China, India and Tanzania, who now have a period of two years to launch their projects.
The Mozambican cement market is currently dominated by Cimentos de Moçambique – a Cimpor (Cimentos de Portugal) group company, which owns 82 percent of its capital, with the remaining 18 percent shared by the Mozambican state, insurance company Emose and railway company CFM.
Cimentos de Moçambique places some 500,000 tons of cement on the domestic market every year and has an estimated annual average turnover of some US$83.8 million.
As well as the factory in Maputo province, Cimentos de Moçambique also has a unit in Dondo, Sofala province, and another in Nacala, in Nampula province.
The other, smaller, slice of the Mozambican market is shared by cement imported from neighbouring South Africa and some Asian importers.
source: macauhub 

 Chinese company to build $12.5 million cement plant in Tanzania

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(Tanzania, Africa)  –  Lee Building Materials Ltd., a Chinese company, plans to start construction of a $12.5 million cement factory in Tanzania in September, said the company’s country representative, Feng Hu.

The plant, located about 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Dar es Salaam, will have a capacity of 300,000 metric tons a year, he said by phone today.

The factory will add to Tanzania’s cement surplus. The country produces 3 million tons a year, compared with demand of 2.1 million. Local producers complain that they can’t compete with imports from Pakistan, China and India following a cut in import tariffs to 25 percent from 40 percent in 2008.

Local cement producers include units of Germany’s HeidelbergCement AG, France’s Lafarge SA and Tanga Cement Co. Ltd.

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British company Consolidated General Minerals plans to build US$24 million cement factory in Mozambique.

MARCH 25TH, 2011     NEWS

London, United Kingdom, 25 March – British company Consolidated General Minerals (CGM) has announced it plans to build a clinker processing and cement packing unit next to the port of Beira, in Mozambique, with capacity to produce 110 tons of cement per hour.

In a statement issued on its website, the company said it was in advanced negotiations to set up a partnership with Calme SpA, an Italian cement manufacturer, to build and operate the Beira factory, where an initial US$24 million would be invested.

CGM also said it had purchased a 40,000 square-meter plot for construction of the cement plant on the outskirts of the port of Beira, which has good rail and road access.

The plot will be integrated into the assets of the partnership, engineering work has already begun and the environmental impact study is due to begin in the next few weeks.

The company said in its statement that it was confident that the project would be approved by the Mozambican government and added that, as soon as all the governmental authorisations had been granted, construction of the plant would begin and take around 15 months. (macauhub)

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 Chinese firm builds $400 million major cement plant in Azerbaijan

Tue Mar 1, 2011 4:52pm GMT

(Corrects spelling of Shou’s first name to Peng from Penq in second paragraph)
BAKU, March 1 (Reuters) – China Triumph International Engineering Co. LTD (CTIEC) plans to build a major cement plant in Azerbaijan with annual capacity of 2 million tonnes and 5,000 tonnes of clinker, the company’s head said on Tuesday.
Peng Shou told journalists construction would be complete by the end of 2013.
The construction was ordered by the international consortium Norm, which plans to invest $400 million into the project or 60 percent of its cost. Details about stakeholders of the consortium were not available.
“We are completing negotiations on lending with some Islamic banks,” Mamed Abbasov, deputy head of Norm, told reporters after the signing ceremony between CTIEC and the consortium.
He said around $100 million would be used to develop the infrastructure.
China’s CTIEC won an international tender in 2009 to build a cement plant in Azerbaijan’s Garadag region, near Sangachal oil terminal.
Azerbaijan’s current annual consumption of cement is 4 million tonnes and may rise to 6 million to 7 million by 2015.
“Apart from increasing consumption in Azerbaijan we plan to export cement to other countries – southern regions of Russia, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan,” Murad Sadykhov, one of the senior officials from the consortium, told reporters.
Azerbaijan has a cement plant in the Garadag region, which was built in 1999 and is now operated by Swiss company Holcim (HOLN.VX: Quote), with annual capacity of 1.5 million tonnes. (Reporting by Afet Mehtiyeva and Lada Yevgrashina; writing by Margarita Antidze in Tbilisi; editing by David Cowell)

  Dangote Plans to Build $100 Million Cement Plant in Cameroon,

ThisDay Says By Vincent Nwanma - Jan 13, 2011 1:51 AM MT

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Dangote Group of Nigeria plans to invest $100 million in a new cement plant in neighboringCameroon, ThisDay reported.

Dangote and the government of Cameroon have reached an agreement on the planned investment, the Lagos-based newspaper said, citing a company statement. The plant will increase production and lower cement prices in Cameroon, which currently only has one producer, the newspaper said.

Dangote has already said it plans to invest $400 million in a similar plant in Zambia, ThisDay said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Vincent Nwanma in Lagos at vnwanma@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin in Johannesburg atasguazzin@bloomberg.net

Iran to build 500 million dollars cement plant in Tajikistan

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Iranian Ambassador to Dushanbe Ali Asghar Sherdoust says Iran plans to set up a cement plant worth more than 500 million dollars in Tajikistan.

The factory with an annual production capacity of more than one million ton will be constructed in Nosir Khusrav district in Tajikistan’s Khatlon province, the Iranian envoy told reporters on Tuesday, Tajikistan’s Asia-Plus website reported.
Sherdoust also pointed out that the Iranian Lian Kavan Kaniha Company will develop the plant during one and a half years period.
“The agreement on building this plant was signed in late January 2011” after two years of negotiations, he further explained.
A seven-member Iranian delegation, comprising legal experts, investors and experts from the Lian Kavan Kaniha Company visited Tajikistan in early January to find out the country’s cement production potentials. 

 Iran ready to build $212 million cement factory in Belarus
Tehran Times Economic Desk

TEHRAN — Minister of Industry and mines highlighted Iranian specialists’ high capacity in technical and engineering services and said his country was prepared to build as many cement factories as Belarus needs. 

Ali-Akbar Mehrabian noted that Iran will build plants in a timeframe of 24 to 30 months with the lowest possible cost and the best achievable quality, the Mehr News Agency reported.
Mehrabian who was speaking at a meeting in Tehran with Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov said that the two countries aim at expanding all-out cooperation in all sectors.
The Iranian official also said that Belarus is one of Iran’s major trade partners and currently mutual projects in the field of mines, energy, petrochemicals, micro-electronics and auto manufacturing are underway. He stated that present projects between the two countries are beneficial for both sides.
Martynov praised the Iranian minister for his endeavor in building relations between Iran and Belarus.
He said joint ventures between the states are of utmost importance for Belarus, adding that these projects guarantee bilateral relations.
The Belarusian official stated that building the Iranian brand Samand sedan in that country was significant, adding that Iranian banks are doing satisfactory work in easing trade between Tehran and Minsk.
The two sides agreed to establish workgroups consisting of specialists from both countries to review the possibility of outsourcing and carrying out joint ventures in other states.
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Elsewhere, the Iranian road and transportation minister who is in Belarus pointed out that flights would be opened between Tehran and Minsk.
IRINN news network reported Hamid Behbahani as reiterating that the two sides have agreed to establish the route soon.
He said that he and his Belarusian counterpart have agreed to let Iran use the European North-South transit corridor.
Belarus is situated on one of the important transit roads between Europe and Russia.
Belarus and Iran have been pursuing closer economic ties in recent years and according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, “the two countries enjoy close cooperation in various areas of transportation, energy, industry, economy and trade.”"
In 2007, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko referred to his country’s relationship with the Islamic Republic as a “strategic partnership.”
In May 2009, Belarusian Deputy PM Vladimir Semashko met with Vice Governor of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Reza Raei, to enhance an oil production project in the Jofeir field, located in Southwestern Iran near the border with Iraq.
Subsequently, the Central Bank of Iran agreed to lend $212 million to Belarusian state-run oil company Belarusneft for the development of Jofeir oil field 

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