ONESTONE CONSULTING S.L.

The global cement capacity development

1 Cement demand and capacity development OneStone Consulting
2 Development of capacity utilization rates OneStone Consulting
3 Capacity ranking of TOP 20, excl. China OneStone Consulting
4 Capacity ranking of TOP 12 in China OneStone Consulting
5 Capacity utilization of TOP producers OneStone Consulting
6 Hermosillo cement plant, Mexico LafargeHolcim
7 Regional U-Rate of LafargeHolcim OneStone Consulting
8 LafargeHolcim’s U-Rates by countries OneStone Consulting
9 New integrated ­cement plant, Togo HeidelbergCement
10 Regional U-Rate of HeidelbergCement OneStone Consulting
11 Rezzato cement kiln in North Italy Italcementi
12 Regional U-rate of Italcementi OneStone Consulting
13 Ste. Genevieve ­cement plant LafargeHolcim
14 Bastas cement plant in Turkey Vicat
15 Gresik cement plant Semen Indonesia
16 Capacity utilization in selected countries OneStone Consulting
17 New contracted kiln capacity [4] OneStone Consulting [4]
18 Major kiln sizes of contracted capacity [4] OneStone Consulting [4]
New cement grinding plant in Burkina Faso HeidelbergCement

On a global level significant cement overcapacity and low utilization rates are now an issue, resulting in a lack of investment in new capacity. This article provides an overview about the latest trends in cement capacities and the utilization rates of major producers/countries and how this affects newly contracted capacity.

1 Introduction

Cement capacities are growing faster than demand [1]. Figure 1 shows the global development since 2001. Up to 2007 cement demand was growing faster than capacity, because the demand growth was higher than expected and new capacity needed at least two years to become operational. With the delay in investment decisions, newly contracted capacity peaked when the global financial crisis started and the demand in developed markets in the Americas and Europe rapidly declined. In China newly contracted capacity peaked in 2010. In Africa, India and Brazil huge capacity expansions started...

TEXT Dr. Joachim Harder, OneStone Consulting S.L., Barcelona/Spain
This article appeared in

ZKG 5/2016

This article appeared in

ZKG 5/2016

Ressort:  Markets and Trends
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