On 21 July 2014, the President of Venezuelan cement group La Corporación Socialista del Cemento, Ángel Jesús Moreno Gudiño, signed an agreement with the President of China’s CATIC, Zou Kangning, for a new cement plant. The facility will be located in Los Arangues, in the state of Lara. It will have a production capacity of 1.2 million tpa.
During Chinese President XI Jinping’s visit to Venezuela in July, China and Venezuela signed 38 bilateral agreements. In addition to the cement contract outlined above, agreements relating to the oil, mineral, agriculture and transport sectors were also formed.
Details of the Trujillo cement plant’s new production line were confirmed during a recent government inspection. The project will cost around US$240 million and take two years to complete.
Through the application of the latest computational tools, PM-Technologies, in association with Cinar Ltd, has helped several calciner kilns to operate at higher production rates.
With Brazil hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup, attention has turned to Latin America this month. But how has the region’s cement industry fared? Paul Maxwell-Cook takes a look.