Asia & Pacific Rim

Lower consumption and prices, combined with increased competition from imports, hit Filipino cement makers in 2Q17.

The petcoke market in key Asian countries showed growth in May, contrasting a decline in both production and demand in Brazil.

Liebherr Maritime is about to establish full service, spares and sales activities in the Asia Pacific region.

Loesche has provided a vertical roller mill to Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd.

FLSmidth has signed a contract with Nepal Shalimar Private Ltd.

A slowdown in residential construction in Siberia has hit demand for cement in the region.

Hanson is to develop new terminal facilities to handle up to 1 million tpy of concrete aggregates in Sydney, supporting a new concrete batching plant planned for Glebe Island.

Construction sector growth in Indonesia is expected to grow strongly to 2021 – but the cement sector will remain plagued by overcapacity.

TMEIC has purchased the process control business of Real Time Consultants, a Melbourne-based engineering and consultancy business.

LafargeHolcim has signed an agreement with FFI to accelerate its biodiversity conservation efforts.

Vietnamese cement producer, Bim Son Cement, has ordered a Loesche vertical roller mill for grinding clinker and granulated blastfurnace slag.

Growth in the Philippines’ construction sector will hit an average of 11.2% between 2017 and 2020, supporting a surge in demand for building materials.

Thailand-based The Siam Cement Public Co. is to invest in a logistics joint venture company alongside the Barito Group in Indonesia.

Asian cement production grew in the first four months of the year on good performance in China, Thailand, and Vietnam, while in Latin America and the Mediterranean Basin, producers struggled.

Mongolun Alt Group has opened Mongolia’s newest and largest cement plant, which was supplied by FLSmidth.