Quarry Products

An Indian quarry company has an ambitious mission: to become the world’s biggest quarry owners in the span of one or two years. Pacific Stone Mart, a family-run group, is led by “visionary” B.R. Agarwal, chairman and managing director, and his sons Rahul Agarwal and Ashish Agarwal. B.R. Agarwal is an entrepreneur whose dream is to create the world’s best educational institutes in Gujrat and Rajasthan in northern India, including medical, dental and technical education.

Semen Indonesia has opened a new cement packing plant in Banjarmasin, capital of South Kalimantan province, to help satisfy demand for local construction material.
A port capable of unloading 300tonnes/hour will be installed at the new plant. The plant features a silo cement storage that has two production lines that can pack 2,200bags/hour. The cost of the plant is estimated at €7.58 million (IDR 120 billion).
With the new packing plant, the company is able to reduce distribution costs and enhance effic

In 2013, Cimentos de Portugal's (Cimpor) Mozambican subset, Cimentos de Mocambique, managed to record a turnover of €141.9 million, up by 5.4% on a yearly basis.
Sales of clinker and cement for the unit stood at 1.299 million tonnes, up 9.8% year-on-year. Its concrete sales, in particular, were 172,000m³, up 49.8% on 2012. Cimentos de Mocambique invested €24.5 billion in 2013, which has been channelled into setting up a cement mill in Dondo, Beira.

Quoting official figures, state-run Semen Indonesia said 4.4 million tonnes of cement were sold in Indonesia in February 2014, up 2.9% year-on-year.
Of this, 2.4 million tonnes were sold in Java, a year-on-year rise of 4%, whereas sales in East and West Java climbed by over 12% amid Mount Kelud's volcanic eurptions in East Java.
Figures were released by the Indonesia Cement Association (ASI). Cement is one the primary indicators to determine domestic spending in Indonesia.

Chettinad Cement Corporation (CCC) of India says it will acquire Anjani Portland Cement (APC) for around €11.79 million (INR 1 billion). APC has debt of €25.85 million (INR 2.22 billion), limestone reserves and a cement plant with annual output of 1.2 million tonnes.

The Zimbabwean subsidiary of South Africa-based cement producer PPC is looking to build a factory worth €179.81 million in Zimbabwe. The unit is currently conducting a feasibility study at the limestone deposit in Rushinga. The new plant will have an annual production capacity of one million tonnes.
Meanwhile, another cement producer, Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe (Lafarge Cement), is revamping its operations in the country. The firm has posted a €6.46 million net operating income in 2013. In addition, it has s

Vietnamese authorities have told project owners not to start new cement projects because of the country’s current oversupply of the building material.
Cement consumption in Vietnam has been below what was expected because of the sluggish property markets, with several construction and housing projects still being delayed. Now, supply is higher than demand as the total capacity of the cement industry in the country reaches about 70 million tonnes, while yearly consumption totals at just 61 million tonnes,

Siam Cement Group (SCG) of Thailand is developing a new €288.51 million cement plant in Myanmar. The plant is expected to be ready in 2016 and will produce two million tonnes of cement a year.