Pakistan’s FCCL full-year earnings up 56.7%

In the 2015 financial year, the net earnings of Pakistan-based Fauji Cement Company (FCCL) rose by 56.7% year-on-year to PKR 4.10 billion (€35.29 million/US$39.46 million) from PKR 2.6 billion due to a decline in finance costs and higher margins.

The revenues of the firm also rose 6.3% year-on-year to PKR 18.6 billion from PKR 17.5 billion.

The cement maker is a subsidiary of Fauji Group.

China National Building Materials Group Corporation (CNBM) published Social Responsibility Report 2014 English Version

On 31 August, 2015, CNBM published <Social Responsibility Report 2014(English) >, which includes Responsibility Management, Market Performance, Employee Care, Corporate Citizen, and Responsibility Performance.

As the leader in China’s building materials industry, CNBM is the largest comprehensive building materials industry group in China. It has been ranked first among the top 500 enterprises in the building materials industry for many years, 41st among the Top 500 Enterprises in China and 270th among the Fortune Global 500.

This Report gives a true picture of China National Building Materials Group Corporation’s (CNBM) performance of social responsibilities.

Report Period:1 January to 31 December 2014; given the progressing continuity of certain businesses or projects, some contents relate to the first and second quarters of 2015, the details of which are indicated in the Report.

Data Source: All information and data used herein are from the headquarters of CNBM and its member companies. Notes have been made in the Report for the information from external reference. Unless otherwise stated, all monetary amounts are expressed in RMB.

Aggregate Production and Processing Procedure of Stone Crusher

Shanghai Sanme is a professional manufacturers and supplier of aggregate crushing and processing equipment. Sanme still focus on the development of new stone crusher and its jaw crusher is a typical machine. Aggregate processing equipment can crush various rocks and stones. The finished products are widely used in highway, railway, and water conservancy construction, etc. As the commonly used crushing equipment, jaw crusher has various characteristics of large crushing ratio, simple structure, reliable operation, simple maintenance, uniform grain size, etc.

Now, let's take a look at its technology program: vibrating feeder evenly sends coarse aggregate into jaw crusher through hopper, and then the jaw crusher starts to crush the materials. After that, the aggregates after the crushing are sent to vibrating screen to get qualified products which are to be sent into cone crusher for fine crushing. And the unqualified products will be sent into jaw crusher for secondary crushing.

Jaw crusher, wildly applied in mining, metallurgy, building material, highway, railway, water conservancy, chemical industry and various constructions, is not only a good helper in crushing aggregate but also efficient in crushing ore, rock, slag, etc. We hope that after being familiar with jaw crusher working principle, our customers could buy the jaw crusher with the largest utilization.

China and Japan were both rejected: Indonesia drops high-speed train plan, chooses slower option

Indonesia has dropped its plan to build a high-speed train line and is shifting instead to more economical medium-speed technology, a Cabinet minister said Friday.

Coordinating Minister of Economy Darmin Nasution said high-speed service is not suitable for the relatively short distance of 150 kilometers (93 miles) between Jakarta and Bandung, West Java’s provincial capital.

“The president’s decision is that we don’t need a high-speed railway. A medium speed of 200 to 250 kilometers per hour is enough,” Nasution said.

President Joko Widodo, who took office last October, has ambitious plans for improving Indonesia’s infrastructure which he says will boost manufacturing and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

Nasution said a medium-speed rail system would take only 11 minutes more than a high-speed system to make the trip, while its construction cost would be about 40 percent cheaper.

China and Japan had been competing to construct the high-speed rail system, each offering low-interest loans and other perks in an attempt to secure a multibillion-dollar contract.

Nasution said a team will create a set of conditions for construction of the medium-speed line before it is opened to international bidding.

“We will offer it again to Japan and China, and other countries that have the capability to build a medium-speed rail system also have a possibility,” he said.

State Enterprise Minister Rini Soemarno said a consortium made up of four state-owned companies – PT Wijaya Karya, PT Jasa Marga, PT Kereta Api Indonesia, and PT Perkebunan Nusantara VIII – has been set up to conduct a further feasibility study for the project.

The Jakarta-Bandung line is part of a planned 750-kilometer (466-mile) train project that would cut across four provinces on Java and end in the country’s second largest city of Surabaya. It was not immediately clear whether speed would also be reduced for the other stretches of the project.

China wins Thai railway construction bid

After many ups and downs, China has finally won the railway cooperation project with Thailand. Zhu Xijun, general manager of the Southeast Asia Company of China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC), said on Aug 26 that after six rounds of negotiation, both sides plan to sign the inter-governmental framework agreement on the China-Thailand Railway project in early September, and the commencement ceremony of the project is expected to be held in the end of October, Xinhua reported.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of China-Thailand diplomatic ties and the first year of implementation of the “One Belt and One Road”initiative proposed by China. The China-Thailand Railway, which has a historical significance, has attracted tremendous attention.

According to Zhu Xijun, the project, which will be completed in 3 years, will bring actual benefits to the socioeconomic development of Thailand. After the railway puts into use, people will enjoy a much more convenient and cheaper transportation between China and Thailand. The price of a railway passenger ticket between Kunming and Bangkok will be about 3,600 Thai Baht or 700 yuan ($109.62), which is about a half or a third of an airline ticket, and the railway freight cost is only one ninth of the air freight.

The railway is estimated to add two million more Chinese tourists to Thailand every year and will provide further convenience to its agricultural product export. With this railway, Thailand will be a new transportation hub of ASEAN countries.

Wu Zhiwu, Charge d’Affaires ad Interim of Chinese Embassy in Thailand, said that the cooperation on China-Thailand Railway will be a good example of the implementation of the “One Belt and One Road” initiative. On the basis of this railway, China and Thailand can further cooperate on the construction of ports, airports and other infrastructures.

The planned China-Thailand Railway is 867 kilometers long, with an agreed operation speed of 180km/h, which is slower than the previous version of 250km/h due to cost control. The railway will connect northeast Thailand’s Nong Khai province, capital Bangkok and eastern Rayong province.

Cone crusher help you to solve the coal waste recycling

Coal gangue is a kind of dark gray rock which is associated with the coal seam in coal forming process. Coal gangue containing ingredients very much, mainly silicon, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, iron oxides and some rare metal, if unused, not only to occupy the vast amounts of land, but also on the environment, water pollution.

Actively carry out the comprehensive utilization of coal gangue has important significance, you can change waste into treasure, achieve multiple economical use of resources, and more energy saving and environmental protection. At present, the coal mining enterprises pay more attention to the recycling of coal gangue, in order to promote the construction of "resource-saving and environment-friendly" type two enterprises, the development of circular economy. Comprehensive utilization of coal gangue and effective, built gangue thermal power plant, coal gangue inferior coal is as the main raw material conversion into electrical energy.

Hydraulic Cone crusher is one of shanghai sanme minerals main products, is the introduction of German technology developed by shanghai sanme, and also is a kind of advanced high power, production rate, high crushing ratio of stone crusher equipment, set all kinds of crushing equipment advantages, is widely used in fine crushing and fine crushing hard rock, ore, slag, coal, refractory materials.

In order to be able to promote the application of coal gangue, it is necessary to solve the problem of coal gangue crushing, and Hydraulic Cone crusher can be based on the feed grain size, grain size, etc.. Not only realized the waste utilization, improve the economic benefits, but also reduce the waste of resources. With the development of coal mining enterprises in the construction of the two type, Hydraulic Cone crusher will also usher in a huge market demand.

Installation and debugging of sand machine to pay attention to details

Sand maker is a wide range of applications, machinery and equipment transported to the post, after consultation between the two sides time, mountain sand American machine will be assigned to carry out installation and commissioning; but for some customers want to install it yourself, then we hereby remind you manager: installation and commissioning process to carefully read the installation instructions, while paying attention to the eight steps:

1, in the installation, the installation must first of all have a very understanding of Sand maker, such as structure, performance, etc.. Then determine the appropriate installation process and process according to the situation.

2, in the installation of the first we must have the lifting equipment, there is no such a large crane equipment can not be normal installation success. Before the fixed equipment, me first to seriously check the equipment of the reserved space is enough, then check the anchor bolt reserved hole of the coordinate of the position. Equipment of longitudinal and transverse coordinate basis (vertical and horizontal curve) respectively is equipment of the center line and the axis line of the rotor, the reserved space and anchor bolt reserved hole center set difference should not exceed plus or minus 10 mm.

3, equipment and foundation should be filled with absorbing materials, to prevent it is put into production is the basis of equipment is not strong, so as to affect the progress of the work.

4, installation of the body, a straight face, body and foundation of the intersecting planes not anchor bolts should be fastened repeatedly, infrastructure should be enough space for the installation of a transport device and equipment maintenance.

5, Sand maker motor installation is completed, should be based on the actual situation of the installation, equipped with a protective cover.

6, plate hammer on the rotor sometimes radial on dynamic gap, so after the new machine is used for the first time counterattack plate frame and hammer the gap width must ensure that no less than 20mm, to ensure that the plate hammer and the rear frame are unlikely to collide.

7, the back plate and the plate hammer of the gap between the need to gradually adjust the small, red star heavy industry proposed to adjust the number of rotor rotation, check whether the impact. After adjusting the lock sleeve nut, to prevent the back plate from the vibration of the screw loose and gradually decreased with the plate hammer collision.

8, the production of Sand maker in the lower part of the material, the installation height and how to feed and feed device, all should be in the installation process to realize the full consideration.

Shanghai sanme is a leading manufacturer of crushing and screening equipments in China, a Sino-German joint venture holding company. We not only can offer full range of crushing and screening equipments, including jaw crusher, cone crusher, impact crusher, Vertical Shaft Impact Crusher, screen, fine sand recovery, mobile crushing and screening plants, but also provide total solutions.

Holcim inflates 28m high cement silo in Auckland, New Zealand

A new dome-shaped silo costingf NZD 50 million (€30.14 million/US$33.05 million) has been inflated on the waterfront of Auckland, New Zealand by Holcim New Zealand.

The silo, to store cement, is said to have been was set up without consulting the public, causing anger in various groups due to the increasing size of the port.



The 28m high silo is state-of-the-art and can store 30,000tonnes of cement, and is located opposite Vector Arena at a Ports of Auckland site.

Holcim is building two 30,000tonne storage facilities in Timaru and Auckland costing NZD 100 million.

The new terminal in Auckland is targeted to be in full operation between mid to late 2016.

Norway construction sector set to continue its expansion

Norway’s construction industry will continue to expand for five years, with investment in transport infrastructure continuing to drive growth, according to a recent report.

The government’s fourth National Transport Plan 2014–2023 calls for a series of new infrastructure projects worth around US$86.5 billion. Nearly 1,300km of new trunk roads and 380km of four-lane motorway will be opened, as noted by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications

The overall construction industry’s output value rose at an annual average rate of over 7% in real terms during 2010–2014. But there will be a deceleration to 3.9% a year on average in 2015-2019, according to the Construction Industry Centre report from business risk consultancy Timetric.

However, the construction industry is expected to face rising labour and construction costs. Activity will be constrained by the relatively weak economic growth picture combined with a slowdown in spending on oil infrastructure, the report noted.

By sector type, residential construction is the largest market in the Norwegian construction industry, accounting for 45% of the industry’s total value in 2014.

Sandvik’s appoints TESIM MAKINA KZ as new Kazakhstan distributor

The Construction Equipment Association (CEA) says it has sold out in record time its UKTI (UK Trade & Investment) supported pavilion at bauma Africa 2015.

A total of 16 UK companies will be in the pavilion in Hall 6 at Africa’s biggest international trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines, and construction vehicles being staged 15-18 September at Johannesburg Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The first bauma Africa, also staged at Johannesburg Expo Centre, in September 2013 attracted 754 exhibitors from 38 countries and 14,700 visitors from over 100 countries. The top ten visitor countries were South Africa, Mozambique, Germany, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Italy, Namibia, United Kingdom and India.

Joanna Oliver MBE, CEA director of global programmes, said: “South Africa is a market with a future which offers great potential for the construction machinery industry, and of great interest to the UK exhibitors. The African economy has tripled since 2000 and presents a significant opportunity across multiple sectors—with US$2.6 trillion of revenue expected by 2020 across resources, agriculture, consumer and infrastructure.”

Oliver added: “The CEA is delighted to be presenting the 2015 UK Pavilion with over 15 UK companies presenting their products. With the generous sponsorship of UKTI, we hope that this event will expose the UK companies exhibiting too many potential buyers, end users and partners. We look forward to welcoming visitors on the CEA stand – H6G44.”

LafargeHolcim and Birla Corportation enter into agreement

LafargeHolcim has announced that it has entered into a letter agreement with Birla Corporation Limited.

The agreement is subject to approval by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for the divestment of certain assets in India as part of the merger of its legacy companies for an enterprise value of INR50 billion.

The proceeds from the sale of the divestment business will be used to further reduce debt.

LafargeHolcim has received conditional clearance from the CCI for the merger. A package of assets for divestments had been agreed with the CCI which includes the Sonadih cement plant and Jojobera grinding station in Eastern India currently operated by Lafarge India. The two plants have an annual cement capacity of 5.15 million t.

The transaction with Birla Corporation Limited as a purchaser will be submitted to the CCI for approval and is subject to other regulatory approvals and customary conditions.

Lafarge’s $400mn power plant to start in October 2015

Lafarge Africa (Lafarge)’s newly-built US$400 million (€369.29 million) power plant in Ogun State in Nigeria is likely to start operation in October 2015.

The 220MW power plant would benefit 1.4 million households and help mitigate energy problems of many companies in the country.

The project was carried out in collaboration with Wartsila and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), according to Guillaume Roux, CEO of Lafarge Nigeria.

The financial and advisory services for the plant would be provided by IFC through its Global Infrastructure Project Development Fund, InfraVentures.

Wartsila, on the other hand, would take care of the construction and management of the plant.

Russia: TDS to buy LSR’s concrete plants in Moscow and St Petersburg

The Titan Demontazh Stroy company (TDS), affiliated with a major St Petersburg’s holding company Titan, has bought seven concrete plants in St Petersburg and four in Moscow from the LSR group.

Experts estimate the cost of transaction at RUB 1.5 billion (€24.33 million/US$ 26.35 million). The transaction will be closed after approval of the Federal Antimonopoly Service scheduled for August 2015.

According to the representatives of TDS, the plants’ purchase is a part of the high-technology concrete production cluster that is being developed in St Petersburg and Moscow.

The project also involves the launch of a research guidance centre and modern laboratories, purchase of more plants, and a sufficient increase of additional investments.

The CEO of the Stroykom company Andrei Ledovskikh will be appointed the head of the concrete division.

The differences Between Impact Crusher And Hummer Crusher

As a type of stone crusher , the impact crusher has its unique working principle. And its unique working principle overcomes the many defects of hammer crusher. While hammer crusher has much power, the discharging particles maybe mainly granular. In order to reduce the jam phenomenon, the impact crushing machine can effectively deal with those materials.

Impact crusher can be used to crush both of the soft material and the very large hardness material. When the rotor moves, the plate hammer which is fixed to the rotor and designed to adopt the mechanical firm structure can get more force from the rotator. Compared with the hammer crusher, the rotor of impact crusher is more suitable to crush the more hard material and saving energy.
The size of the discharging particle's adjusting range of the impact crusher is large, and it can be adjusted very simply. There are several ways to adjust the discharging particle of impact crusher, such as adjust rotor speed, impact plate and the space of grinding cavity and so on. We can adjust the size of the gap through mechanical or hydraulic way. Compared with the hammer crusher, the impact crusher have fewer wear-resistant parts and higher use ratio of metal.

The cost of maintenance of the impact crusher is low since the replacement of spare parts is very simple. There are six plates hammers those were installed on the rotor. If we need to replace a set of plate hammer, it will only costs our few minutes. On the contrary, the hammer crusher has more than 100 pair of hammers, so it will really need lots of time to replace a set of hammer. At the same time, the hammer crusher costs higher when it needs inspection and maintenance .

Hydraulic Cone Crusher Manufacturers Rise along with National Economy

When technology and economy develops rapidly, national infrastructure construction become increasingly automatic. All industries are moved forward with many competitors. However, Shanghai Sanme Economic level to become the world's standard measure of national prosperity, rapid economic progress also indicates that our country is moving towards prosperity and progress, and thus to the development of most of our industry have entered the increase innovation and rapid development period, hydraulic cone crusher equipment production and sand industry is also an occasion to develop.
Hydraulic cone crusher manufacturers have withstood the test of time, in the fierce competition, hydraulic cone crusher equipment industry has produced a variety of crushing, sand making machine ,jaw crusher , broken stone hammer, counter rock breaking machine, vibrating screen and so on. High-tech companies to create hope for more progress, the development needs to seize the opportunity, hydraulic cone crusher industry, hydraulic cone crusher and hydraulic cone crusher equipment manufacturers continue to develop into a very important power facilities construction projects carried out smoothly.
Shanghai Sanme is China's leading manufacturer of cone crusher, hydraulic cone crusher we produce have SMH hydraulic cone crusher, also have multi-cylinder hydraulic cone crusher, cone crusher which is not only popular in the country, but also in the Middle East , Southeast Asia, Australia, Africa and other regions have been sold, the company not only on high-tech products for many customer satisfaction, even based on the first-class service offering customers at ease, so that customers feel in the heart of our technology and hospitality.

Working Principle Of Jaw Crusher

Applicition of Jaw Crusher is one of the most popular rock crusher in the world, Jaw Crusher is ideally suitable for primary and secondary crushing. The highest anti-pressure strength of crushed material is 320MPa. It is widely used in mining, metallurgy, construction, highway, railroad, and chemistry industries and etc. Many models are available according to your different fineness requirements.

 

The Crushing form of this series Jaw Crusher is driven-squeezing style. Its working principle is: Motor drives belt and belt pulley, makes moving jaw up and down through eccentric shaft. When the moving jaw is up, the angle between lining plate and moving jaw becomes large, and this will push moving jaw plate close to the fixed jaw plate. During this process, the material is crushed and ground, thus the crushing will be done. When the moving jaw is down, the angle between lining plate and moving jaw becomes small, the moving jaw plate will leave the fixed jaw plate on account of the effect of pulling bar and spring, and then the crushed material will be discharged from the lower opening of the crushing room. With the motor continuously rotating and the material periodically crushed and discharged by the crusher, the mass production can be realized.

Breedon Aggregates: revenue increases 28% in H1, 2015

Breedon Aggregates, the UK’s largest independent aggregates business, has announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June, 2015.

They show a 28% increase in revenue from £125.2 million the previous comparable period to £160.5 million; underlying EBITDA at £27.3 million (£17.8 million in 2014, + 54%), and a pre-tax profit rise of 92% from £9.1million to £17.5 million.

The company says that underlying results are stated before acquisition related expenses, redundancy and reorganisation costs, property items, amortisation of acquisition intangibles and related tax items.

The figures also show that Breedon sold 4.5 million tonnes of aggregates in H1, 2015 compared to 3.6 million tonnes in H1,2014; 0.9 million tonnes of asphalt (0.7 million tonnes in 2014), and 0.4 million m³ of ready-mixed concrete (30 June 2014: 0.3 million m³).

Breedon lists as its highlights astrong trading performance; underlying business well ahead of prior year;underlying EBITDA margin up to 17%; Huntsmans and former Barr business performing well;step-up in capital investment on track; mineral reserves and resources replenished, and several acquisition opportunities under review

Looking ahead Peter Tom CBE, executive chairman, said: “Trading during the first half was strong, with both the underlying business and recent acquisitions performing ahead of our expectations. March was a record month for the group, with exceptional performances from both England and Scotland.

“Assuming that current trading conditions continue through the second half of 2015, we believe that market expectations for the year will be exceeded.”

Breedon Aggregates says it is the leading independent aggregates business in the UK after the four global majors.

It operates 53 quarries, 26 asphalt plants, 59 ready-mixed concrete plants and three concrete block plants in England and Scotland and employs around 1,240 people.

The group has strong asset backing, with over 500 million tonnes of mineral reserves and resources in the UK, and its strategy is to grow through consolidation of the UK heavyside building materials sector.

Different Ways to Use Recycled Concrete

Construction and demolition projects can create large quantities of waste building materials, which often end up in the landfill. Much of this material can be repurposed or recycled for projects around the home and garden. Recycled concrete is one such material. It is often available free where demolition or renovation projects are underway, and some builders will deliver a quantity to your door for a modest price. For processing these rubble. Shanghai SANME, which sales cone crusher, sand maker, jaw crusher, can offer the total solution for aggregates processing. The recycled concrete has several utilities as the follows:

Paths and Walkways
Broken-up pieces of sidewalk or used concrete paving stones can be used to build new paths and walkways around your home and yard. Whenever possible, try to acquire pieces from a single demolition to build your new project; such pieces are more likely to be a uniform thickness, making them easier to handle and work with. Walkways made from separate pieces of reclaimed concrete provide numerous gaps for rain water to filter into the soil, reducing the quantity of potentially-harmful runoff from your property into storm drains.

Aggregate and Drainage
Sometimes, recycled concrete is more useful in small pieces than in large ones. Many municipalities or counties have companies that recycle old concrete into gravel-sized pieces. These can be purchased inexpensively and reused as aggregate for new poured-concrete projects. They're also a good alternative to gravel as a drainage material in wet areas. Dig a trench through the area of your yard where water most often pools, and fill it with broken-up concrete surrounding a perforated PVC drainage pipe. Cover the pipe with more concrete and replace the soil. Be sure to check local drainage regulations before undertaking such a project.

As a leading manufacturer of crusher and screen, SANME has always been acting as a guiding role in the field of crusher and screen based on its vigorous research ability and modernized craft.

Indonesia: six-month cement consumption figures

The cement industry in Indonesia reported a consumption volume of 28.09million tonnes in January-June 2015, disclosed the Indonesian Cement Association.

Consumption in May 2015 alone dropped by around 8% year-on-year, while that in June 2015 rose by 2.7% to 4.96million tonnes from 4.83million tonnes.

State-owned cement producer Semen Indonesia registered domestic sales of 9.92million tonnes (down 5.3%) during the first five months of 2015.

In Indonesia, SHANGHAI SANME MINING MACHINERY CO., LTD. has designed and built an andesite production line for Holcim, the world cement giant. The production line has an hourly output of 300 tons.SANME provided main equipment for the production line, such as jaw crusher,  cone crusher,  vertical shaft impact crusher, feeder,  vibrating screen, de-ironing separator and etc. The production line fully satisfies Holcim's requirements for capacity and discharging.

How to Negotiate the Price of Hydraulic Cone Crusher

Price is mostly tangling for purchasing Hydraulic Cone Crusher , higher prices given by manufacturers, higher investing cost, quite lower prices given by them, it can not help but let us keep whispered in mind. how to purchase the most suitable Hydraulic Cone Crusher on earth. In fact, everyone wants to buy the corresponding quality Hydraulic Cone Crusher with the paid price.



Many integrity manufacturers in the industry summed up a lot of tips to choose Hydraulic Cone Crusher, the most famous is the “Three Understandings,Four Skills” principle, “Three Understandings” is understanding the structure, understanding the performance, understanding the working principles, “Four Skills” is able to use, keepup, maintain, deal with trouble, ensure the operator to strictly comply with the rules, such a principle initially accord with the basic conditions of purchasing Hydraulic Cone Crusher.



For the Hydraulic Cone Crusher price, after determining the Hydraulic Cone Crusher quality, go on immediately to talk about the price, manufacturers vary greatly, for no contacting manufacture before, fight in mentality, pay attention to observe your negotiation opponent’s body language, it can give you hints “Is there increasing space”, Then we need to have a keen eye and a fast rotation brain, see following for, some people may feel tired, in fact, there is no need, business is battlefield, but one is with body, one is with the mind, it can completely put this kind of life as the pleasures of life, for those manufacturers’ propaganda, they will give you the best price, it is better not to easily believe that.