Asia & Pacific Rim

China Shuangji Cement announced that it will soon begin rapidly growing sales and profits as its new Zhaoyuan City cement plant ramps up production.

Indian cement producers are expected to report better figures over September.

Chinese cement production increased in August, and Asia Cement (China) announces new loan agreement.

Cement manufacturers in India are due to increase prices by as much as Rs. 30 per bag in the next week, as producers look to make the most of the increase in demand.

Atif Munir, Cement Pakistan Company, highlights the Pakistani cement industry’s existing performance and future role following the devastating floods in this article taken from the October issue of World Cement.

In India, plans are afoot to increase coal production by introducing a bill that will mean that the mines must share a portion of their profits with the locals.

Press reports from India indicate that Holcim ASG has initiated the merger of its Indian subsidiaries, Ambuja Cements and ACC.

China Industrial Waste Management, Inc, has announced that its 90% owned Dalian Dongtai Industrial Waste Treatment Co Ltd has signed a waste management cooperation contract with Dalian Onoda Cement.

A technical agreement has been signed between Seven Circle (Bangladesh) Limited and Taiheiyo Cement.

Vietnamese company Chinfon Cement has pulled out of a US$200 million project to build a 1 million tpa cement plant.

China Shuangji Cement, Ltd. has announced that one of its four cement plants is on a recently published list of more than 2000 production lines across China that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology wants to phase out due to concerns about outmoded production methods.

BK Birla group-controlled Mangalam Cement has announced it will merge with Mangalam Timber Products Ltd.

PT Indocement Tunggal Prakasa has forecast Indonesia’s cement demand to increase by 8% this year to a total of 41.5 million t.

Large companies to benefit from industry consolidation; TCC becomes largest producer in SW China, and CR Cement invests in Shanxi.

Restructuring of the country’s cement industry is underway; it has become harder to export cement, and groundbreaking of a new plant has taken place.