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Indonesia's biggest cement producer Semen Indonesia has projected that for 2016 there will be an over 5% hike in the overall cement consumption in the country.

That would compare with the preceding year, when consumption climbed 1% year-on-year from 59.9 million tonnes.

Driving over half of the nation's economy, cement consumption is one of the main local consumption indicators.

The Indonesian Cement Association highlighted that overall cement consumption between January 2015 and November 2015 grew

JSW Group of India, a conglomerate with interests in steel and cement, is planning to venture into the industrial paints market due to high internal demand for steel coatings.

The project may start in Maharashtra at the site of the company in Dolvi.

Meanwhile, the cement business of the company will get an additional INR 20 billion (€278.04 million/US$ 301.96 million) for brownfield expansion over the following 24 months to increase output to 16 million tonnes from 6 million tonnes.

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Laos-based Oudomxay Cement is constructing a factory in Oudomxay Province and expects to commission the facility by end-2016. Output from the new factory, which is the third for the company, will be delivered to projects in the provinces of Phongsaly, Luang Namtha and Bokeo and several other areas in the northern region.

In Thailand, BMC Cement Industry Factory (Lion Brand) will operate its factory in February 2016.
The Lao-owned company has been developing the new factory since 2011 and construction is estimated to be completed next month.
Cement produced by the factory will be supplied to provinces in Laos and Thailand.

A new marketing agreement has been agreed between Redbird and Caterpillar in the Europe, Africa and Middle East region.

Redbird, established in 2013, is a pioneer in the acquisition and analysis of aerial data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones.

The company’s ability to both collect drone data and provide analysis of that data using cloud-based, proprietary algorithms offers significant benefits for customers.

The construction and construction machinery industry has been one of the driving forces of the global economy for years. The new bauma Charity Alliance is intended to highlight the fact that the companies in this sector are actively engaged both in combating hunger and poverty and in promoting education and the environment in the Third World in addition to their day-to-day business.

CRH, the global building materials group, has confirmed total disposal proceeds of nearly €1 billion in 2015. The figure comprises the previously announced sale of its clay and concrete products operations in the UK and the Group’s clay business in the US (€0.43 billion) plus several additional divestments across Europe and the Americas for total proceeds of around €0.53 billion.

Import licences in Algeria will first target three products, passenger cars, cement and concrete reinforcing bars, due to their significant financial weight on imports.

Concrete reinforcing bar imports cost US$1.8 billion (€1.66 billion) in 2014 and $1.20 billion in 2015, while passenger car imports represented $4.80 billion in 2014 and $3.9 billion in 2015.

The licence imports will be implemented in such a way as to avoid market disruptions and gradually replace imported products with local products.

In its efforts to invest in alternative source of energy to replace fossil fuels, Irish Cement expects that it will be using used tyres as one of the residual waste materials.

The proposal, which will reduce carbon dioxide emissions, concerns Irish Cement's cement kilns in Limerick, and the cement supplier is getting ready to have its environmental licence reviewed by Irish authorities.

At the same time, the company will be applying for a planning permit from Limerick County Council.

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Work should begin on a cement plant in Ben-Zireg, some 40km from Bechar in Algeria, in 2016.

A national and international invitation to tender has been issued, following the termination of the previous contract with a Chinese company.

The cement plant will be built on behalf of Société Saoura Ciment (SSC), a subsidiary of Groupe public industriel des ciments d'Algérie (GICA).

The cement plant should be operational in 2019 and will see the creation of 500-600 jobs directly and as many indirectly.

Works to construct a new cement plant in El-Beidha, Algeria, are expected to last 32 months and requires over DZD 35 billion (€301.10 million/US$327 million) in investments.

Once operational, it will have a daily output of 6,000tonnes of cement, representing over 2 million tonnes/year.

Production will cover domestic needs and the growing cement demand, which is due to the number of construction programmes.

Access Engineering of Sri Lanka has won a contract from Ultratech Cement Lanka to modify Ultratech’s present cement conveying/unloading system.

Work includes building ground floor structures and a basement, and a 50m-tall steel superstructure that weighs 280tonnes.

The ground floor structure is 6m higher than ground level, while the basement sits 5.25m underground.

The port cement ship handling period will be cut substantially as the cement pumping efficiency will be improved by 30% when the projec

Work has started on JSW Steel's new 2.4 million tonne/year cement plant with 300MW power plant in Salboni, West Bengal, India.

The INR 7 billion (€97.31 million/US$105.68 million) facility spans 50 hectares and will employ 150 people directly, with at least 1,000 construction jobs created, according to a company official.

According to Cemsuisse, the Swiss Cement Industry Association, cement deliveries in Switzerland declined by 4.2% in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared to a year earlier.

In 2015, deliveries reached 4.219 million tonnes, down 7.9%.

Rail transport accounted for 51.5% of deliveries.

The share of low-emissions cement increased to nearly 90% compared to 6% in 1995.