Cement Grinding Units

4 Greenfield Cement Grinding Units

JSW Cement as part of its long term strategy to achieve a cement and clinker capacity of 20 Million tonnes, has plans to start 4 greenfield cement grinding units. These cement grinding units are to be put in place in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.

2 cement grinding units each are to be started in these states. A total investment outlay of Rs.9000 crore is planned.

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Bulk Cement Carrier Sinks

Bulk Cement Carrier

M.V.Coastal Pride, a bulk cement carrier  sank off the coast of Daman, 75 nautical miles from Mumbai. Its 14 crew members were all rescued by the Indian Coast Guard and the Indian Navy who mouted a joint rescue operation.

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Rural Cement Sales Demand

Rural Cement Sales

Heavy pre-monsoon rains all over central India has wrecked havoc on standing crops leading to heavy losses to farmers. This in turn has lead to reduced rural income and lower spending money. Rural housing has been put on hold for most people affected by this cycle. Rural cement sales has been affected as around 60% of total rural cement off-take is fron the rural retail segment and the rest of 40% by institutional buyers.

However cement companies who have responded to this cash crunch scenario by expanding credit to dealers have benefited as most cement dealers have passed on the expanded credit terms to the rural cement buyer. Rural retail cement sales of these companies have not been affected much as against cement companies whose credit terms are more rigid.

More on this from Rural Cement Sales experts here.

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Uses of Cement Bags

Cement bags used for bagging river sand

River sand has become such a precious commodity that used cement bags are used to smuggle it in. Bullock carts, goods autos, motorcycles and bicycles are used to transport river sand into town.

Read more in this special report on how cement bages are used

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Is FY16 yet another bad year for Cement Marketing ?

Cement Marketing in FY16

India is the second largest cement manufacturer in the world after China with an installed capacity of 390 Million Tonnes. Indian cement marketing is under the grip of a huge gap between demand and supply and could register single digit growth figures for now 5 years in a row. This year's scenario as projected by experts put the growth figures at a dismal rate of 1% to 3%.

However, the scene is all set to change in FY17 and hence cement earning projections for the period FY15-17 in terms of CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) is to be in the range of 24%.

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Cement Customer Support Group

Cement Customer Support Group

Ambuja Cement, part of the global conglomerate Holcim with 5 integrated cement manufacturing plants and 8 cement grinding units spread all over India had plans to train 18000 masons and 15000 contractors by the end of December this year.

Training in the field of cement, concrete, construction technology and civil engineering is done through cement knowledge centres. Ambuja has already to their credit 22 such centres and plan to add 15 more such cement training centres by the end of December this year.

Masons, contractors and engineers benefit from these cement training programmes through interactive sessions. These cement training programmes have both theory and practical aspects on masonry tools, how to select good quality building materials, right mix ratio and proportion, cement and concrete mixing methods, brick masonry, flooring, plastering and concreting.

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Cement Knowledge Centres

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Cement Market Acquisition

Cement Market Acquisition

Larfarge has signed an agreement to acquire a 14% stake in its Indian subsidiary from Baring PE Asia for a sum of Rs.1950 crore / $303 million / Euro 270 million. After the aquisition is completed, Lafarge India will be wholly owned by Lafarge SA.

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Cement and M-Sand

Cement and M-Sand

This topic is relevant throughout the world, and India in particular as natural sand mined from riverbeds and sand quarries are fast running short. And India needs to strike a balance between development and preservation of natural resources.

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