Quarry Products

Semen Indonesia will next year to set up a new €219.6 million cement plant in Vietnam, according to the Jakarta Post. The new plant will serve the Vietnamese domestic market and export to Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Singapore. Construction of the new plant is said by the newspaper to be earmarked to begin in early 2015. It will produce 1.5 million tonnes/cement annually.

In a further development at Semen Indonesia, a state-run cement maker, the firm has also reportedly entered into an offtake deal with T

Urbanisation is driving a rise in construction projects and the need for more Portland cement, according to a new Transparency Market Research (TMR) report.

The new report titled ‘Global Portland Cement Market: Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2013-2019’ also highlights how growth in nuclear families, the increasing need for investment in infrastructure and rising disposable income are set to increase demand for Portland cement within the forecast period. TMR also notes an exponential r

Dangote Cement is reportedly set to open its new Cameroon plant in August 2014. It was initially expected to enter service in January 2014, and then July 2014, but Baba Abdullahi, managing director of Dangote Cement Cameroun (DCC), told StarAfrica that delays have been linked to problems in making the access route to the plant viable and in securing the electricity supply. From 2016 onwards, Dangote Cement is looking to produce 1.5 million tonnes of cement in Cameroon. The new plant, which required an inves

Lafarge, the French concrete and cement materials giant, and Germany-based construction chemicals producer BASF have agreed to set up a joint venture in Iraq. Under the agreement, the two firms will establish a new plant that will be responsible for the production of construction materials. Located in Kurdistan, the autonomous Iraqi region, the new plant will mainly produce cement additives and concrete admixtures.

Long term growth in asphalt demand will be primarily driven by the continuously expanding highways across the world that are needed to accommodate the massively growing automobile population, a new report states.

‘Asphalt: A Global Strategic Business Report’ by Global Industry Analysts (GIA) says key innovations that are poised to benefit the market through to 2020 include noise-reducing hot-mix asphalt for lowering traffic noise, and the introduction of green technologies for eco-friendly production of

Over the four years from 2014 to 2017, the higher demand for cement in the Philippines will be met as the expansion of cement plant capacity is projected to increase steadily.

This was according to a survey by University of Santo Tomas' Professor Antoinette Rosete, using published sources.

As projected by Professor Rosete, domestic cement demand is expected to continue growing over the four years to come, to 27 million tonnes in 2017.

The study showed that the growth in cement plant capacity will l

France's national union of quarry industries and construction materials (Unicem) reports an activity decline of 3.4% in May 2014, confirming the downward trend witnessed in April.

Ready-mix concrete production was stable at 0.2% in May but down 2.3% compared with May 2013.

The aggregates sector was down 5.6% in May 2014 compared to May 2013. There was a 3.4% increase in public works contracts carried out between April 2013 and April 2014. Housing starts have declined since the beginning of 2014, with

H2 Equity Partners is to acquire Ballast Phoenix, a UK-based aggregates recycling business, from Dutch construction company Ballast Nedam. The £30 million (€37.52 million) sale is expected to be completed by the end of June 2014. Ballast Phoenix processes incinerator bottom ash into construction aggregates.