By John Lee. Iraq's Vertex Investment Group has reportedly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Syria's Ministry of Economy and Industry to rehabilitate and expand the Hama Cement Plant. According to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the agreement covers the upgrade of the third production line, raising daily clinker output from 3,300 […]
By John Lee. Iraq's Minister of Industry and Minerals, Professor Khaled Battal Al-Najm, has instructed the development of modern, environmentally friendly cement plants in the Badoush and Hammam Al-Alil complexes in Nineveh province. These new facilities will replace outdated plants built in the 1950s that still use the wet process. During his visit to the […]
By John Lee. The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani, opened the new Dabin [Dabeen] Cement Factory and Power Station on Monday. The plant, near Safeen Mountain in Erbil Governorate, has a capacity of 2.1 million tons of cement annually, and can output 52 MW of electricity. It has created more than […]
By John Lee. The Najmat Al-Samawah (NAS) joint venture, led by Pakistan's Lucky Cement, has successfully fired the kiln for its new clinker production line in Samawah, The line has a capacity of 1.82 million tons per annum (MTPA). An additional cement grinding plant with a capacity of 0.65 million tons per annum is under […]
By John Lee. Jordanian-based International Venture Investment Holding (IVI Holding) has announced the signing of an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract with Chinese company Sinoma Overseas Development to build a 6,000 TPD [tonnes per day] clinker cement plant in Al-Muthanna Province. The project, valued at over $240 million, aims to address the local cement supply […]
By John Lee. Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al-Sudani has launched the commercial operation of the $200-million Najmat Al-Samawa 2 Cement Plant in Al-Muthanna Province via video conference. With a daily production capacity of 6,000 tons, the plant is part of a wider $1.171-billion industrial investment package aimed at bolstering Iraq's construction materials sector. Najmat Al-Samawa […]
By John Lee. Iraq's Ministry of Justice has said it has successfully defended Iraq in a $1-billion international arbitration case filed by Germany's AHG Industry GmbH & Co. KG at the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). According to the statement from the Ministry on Tuesday (11th March), the dispute stemmed […]
By John Lee. The Iraqi Cement Company, part of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, has announced a total production of 10.2 million tonnes of cement in 2024, marking a 7% increase compared to 2023. General Manager Aqeel Abdul Ali Raddam attributed this growth to successful strategies for improving productivity and efficiency to meet rising […]
By John Lee. The Iraqi State Company for Cement, part of the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, has announced a record production milestone at the Badoush Expansion Cement Plant in October. General Manager Engineer Aqeel Abdul Ali Radam highlighted that the plant exceeded its production targets, achieving 89,568 tons of clinker and 76,656 tons of […]
Modon and Lafarge Partner to Implement Green Cement Technology As part of Modon's continuous development and under the active agreement with Lafarge, the French company specializing in infrastructure solutions and building materials, both parties have agreed to adopt and implement green cement technology in Modon's operations. This technology is one of Lafarge's most innovative solutions, […]
By John Lee. The Iraqi Oil Pipelines Company has rehabilitated the six-inch fuel oil pipeline extending from the "June 1" depot to the Kirkuk Cement Plant in Lilan, southeast of Kirkuk. According to a statement from the Ministry of Oil, the pipeline, inactive for over three years, is now fully operational. Ali Abdul Kareem Al-Moussawi, […]
By John Lee. The Iraqi Cabinet has approved recommendations from the Ministry of Industry and Minerals (Industrial Development and Regulation Directorate) to impose an additional customs tariff of 50 percent on imported paper bags used for packaging cement. The new measure will come into force after 120 days, and run for four years, during which […]
