Oman Cement’s new mill

Oman's cement manufacturing company, Oman Cement has garnered OMR 15.94 million (€38.91 million/US$41.42 million) in revenues in the January-March 2015 period, noting a year-on-year increase of 10.6%.

Its net profit also followed similar upward trend during the quarter under review, with an increase of 3.7% to reach OMR 3.83 million.

FLSmidth has received an order worth US$38 million (approximately DKK 205m) from Omani cement producer Oman Cement Company (SAOG) for the supply of milling equipment for a cement plant located in Rusayl Industrial Area, 60km from Port Sultan Qaboos, Muscat.

The order covers supply of a 150tonnes/hour closed circuit ball mill system including two cement silos, each with a capacity of 8,000tonnes. The scope of supply also includes a high-efficiency central drive for the ball mill and a dynamic separator an

Oman Cement has recorded a 40% drop in its net profit in the January to June 2015 period from OMR 9.09million (€21.23million US$23.62million) in the same period in 2014, to OMR 5.44million. The cement producer has registered a 7.7% decline in its total revenue in the six months under review to OMR 27.33million. It has posted a marginal decrease in its sales revenue in the period under review from OMR 25.68million in the same period in 2014, to OMR 25.53million. Investment and other income dropped by 54.1% i

Raysut Cement Company (RCC) of Oman has started to use a new silo with storage capacity of 20,000 tonnes at its factory in Salalah.

The silo has three compartments with capacity of 3,000-12,000tonnes each to hold oil well cement, sulphate-resistant cement and ordinary Portland cement.

It also has two units to load bulk cement at rate of 300 tonnes/hour.

The company plans to complete building a new packing plant with 150tonnes/hour capacity at the silo in the fourth quarter of 2016.