Cement Energy and Environment

> I involving integrated actions to combine waste management and energy recovery techniques in communities placed adjacent to each other can not provide a cleaner habitat to residents but also empewer communities by proving usable forms of energy. Courtesy: Development Alternatives, Oct. 2011, P11. India Country Profile MAHARASHTRA SIGNS MOUS FOR RS 6,455 CR INVESTMENT The Maharashtra government has signed eight memoranda of understanding (MoUs) for Rs 6,455.45 crore with companies from sectors including steel, engineering, cement and packaging. It is expected to create more than 5,000 jobs. Uttam Galva Steel Ltd will invest Rs. 2,100 crore to expand its plant at Khopoli in Raigad district and construct a 120 Mega Watts (MW) captive power plant at the site. Jai Bhole Cement Combine Pvt Ltd will invest Rs. 1,501.97 crore to set up a green field cement plant with a capacity of 2 million tonnes (mt) at Welabi in Yavatmal district in the Vidarbha region. Pune-based engineering solutions for Thermax Ltd and its US-based joint venture partner Babcock & Wilcox will invest Rs 687 crore in Khandala,· Satara, to produce boilers required for the power sector. Tetra Pak India Pvt Ltd, Nipro India Corp Pvt Ltd, Maharashtra Seamles Ltd, Soktas India Pvt Ltd and Forbes Marshall Pvt Ltd also signed MoUs. State Industries Minister Narayan Rane presented a new industrial policy to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan during the event at which the MoUs were signed. Courtesy: Konstruction Review, Oct. 17, 2011 No.2. NEW INDUSTRIAL POLICY ON ANVIL IN MAHARASHTRA The bear market has not dampened the sprits of the Maharashtra government. It is formulating a new industrial policy with which it hopes to attract an investment of over Rs 5 lakh crore by 2016. On 11.10.2011, the State In– dustries Minister, Mr Narayan Rane, disclosed the ambitious target in a presentation on the policy to the Chief Minister. . A senior State government official, who was privy to the presentation, said the new policy, which is likely to be announced soon, aims to create 20 lakh jobs in the next five years. Among other sectors, manufacturing and services would be given top priority. Industries such as textiles and fruit processing would be promoted in the policy, the official said. Delineating the challenges for industrial growth in the State, Mr Rane stressed on the non– availability of land for industrial projects with no solution in sight. The State is also suffering form lopsided regional development and excess stress on Mumbai region for industrial growth. Development of Special Economic Zones has also taken a back seat, the official said. Lack of skilled manpower in certain sectors and irregular power supply to the industries was also highlighted in the presentation. In the new policy, sops would be provided to sick units located in the industrial estates controlled by Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC). If the units cannot be revived then the land leased out to the units by MIDC would be given to other industries. Before building new · industrial estates all physical and other infrastructures would be created, the official said. Courtesy: The Hindu Business Line, October 12, 2011, Mumbai International Country Profile CEMENT INDUSTRY IN THE ARAB WORLD - 2007-2009 This article presents a general description of cement industry in the Arab world with brief analyses and future prospects. Design Capacities: Design capacities of Arab cement companies registered 1.57 Mt of clinker and 189 Mt of cement in 2007, then increased to 180.6Mt of clinker and 204.1Mt of cement in 2008. However, in 2009, cement industry witnessed notable improvement, with design capacities jumping to 203.5Mt of clinker and 230.3 Mt of cement. For clinker, this represented a growth rate of 29 per cent on 2007 levels and 12.7 per cent on 2008 levels. Progress in Arab cement industry has not ceased, with numerous new projects and plants, in addition to expansions, have already been executed or are still under consideration. This means that cement industry is still rece1v1ng additional capacities each year. Available information indicates that the number of new plants and mills 29