Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

China's Jiangsu province increased its bulk cement production by 14.81% in H1 2013 to 70.69 million tonnes, accounting for 12.18% of the country's total. The province’s production levels are third highest among provinces nationally. The two highest producers, Shandong and Zhejiang provinces, contributed 19.23% and 18.15% respectively to China's total bulk cement production during the first half of 2013.

Irish firm Cement Roadstone Holding (CRH), owner of the Spanish cement company Cementos Lemona, is making 35 staff redundant at Prefabricados Lemona's plants in the towns of Lemona (Bizkaia) and Castropepe (Zamora).
Trade union ELA has criticised this move, highlighting the €600 million annual profits posted by CRH in the last two years.

Aircraft parking spaces at Singapore’s Changi Airport are being replaced with recycled concrete mix as part of an ongoing drive to go green. Over the coming decade, 31 of the 80m x 80m spaces, officially called stands, will be repaved.

In 2019, the four-phase project is scheduled to be completed with ten parking stands being repaved under the second phase, which is ongoing.

Swiss cement manufacturer Holcim is to acquire the activities of UK cement supplier Cemex in Germany. Holcim will also sell the Cesko unit to Cemex and merge its activities with the activities of Cemex in Spain. The deals are intended to enhance the portfolio of Holcim in Europe. The Ebitda is expected to increase by at least €20 million. To secure the deal, Holcim will pay €70 million to Cemex. The deals will be finalised in Q4 2013.

Dagestanavtodor is aiming to start asphalt concrete production in Makhachkala (North Caucasus), Russia. The Summa group purchased equipment from Kredmash DS-168637, a high-tech asphalt plant in Ukraine. The plant is fuelled by natural gas and equipped with microprocessor control system with sock filters. Its nominal capacity is 160tonnes/hour of asphalt concrete.

The aerated concrete block plant, controlled by Denmark's H+H, located in the Volosovo district of the Leningrad region of Russia, accounts for 30% of the market in north-west. The enterprise manufactured over 330,000tonnes of products in 2012. The designed capacity is 400,000m3/year.

Cemex has launched Cemex Global Solutions, a service from the company that leverages over a century of expertise to provide customers with the “best value proposition in a full range of technical services for the cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates industry.” Cemex Global Solutions is available around the world, with ongoing projects in several countries. By leveraging the best practices and innovations from the company’s Research and Development Centre in Switzerland and extracting value from its ex