Cement news 2018

ABB recently won an order to provide additional integrated digital automation and electrical equipment for Tan Thang Cement Joint Stock Company’s greenfield cement plant in Vietnam.

A study by the Swedish research institute RISE has concluded that the carbon footprint of paper cement sacks is 2.5 times smaller than the carbon footprint of form-fill-seal (FFS) polyethylene cement sacks.

San Miguel Northern Cement Incorporated has chosen technology from Loesche for its new 5000 tpd production line at the Sison site in the province of Pangasinan, the Philippines.

Ambuja Cements has moved two notches up to 5th place globally in the Construction Material category of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index - 2018.

The Vietnam Association for Building Materials has hosted a Loesche Group seminar on processing alternative fuels in the cement industry.

The Indian cement producer has joined the industry association as a Corporate Member.

Hengshui Decheng Machinery and Equipment Co. Ltd is to build several cement and brick production facilities in Uzbekistan.

Holcim Lanka and Ambuja Cement veteran, Rizmy Rishard, has been appointed an independent director at Siam City Cement (Lanka).

The company acted as the main cement supplier to the project, which is expected to provide irrigation water for 690 000 hectares of agricultural land as well as water and renewable energy to a number of cities.

German cement delivers rose in 2017, hitting almost 26.60 million t, a 4.1% rise on the previous year.