Introduction: In recent years, natural sand and stone mining shortage, sand and stone aggregate resources shortage, mineral resources competition is also increasingly white-hot sand and stone prices continue to rise all the way, has become a real "crazy stone". When the profit margin of many cement enterprises have entered the bottleneck period, the expansion of the whole industry chain has become an important means to increase profits of cement enterprises -- sand aggregate industry will become the focus of the expansion of cement enterprises. To this end, let's take a look at the major cement enterprises in 2021 to actively layout sand aggregate, so as to broaden the depth of the development of the industry chain!
March 14, Ruzhou Tianrui Cement aggregate line project with annual output of 10 million tons was started.
◎ In April, Conch Cement signed an agreement with the People's Government of Yanshan County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, planning and constructing the aggregate machine-made sand project with an annual output of 5 million tons.
◎ In May, Conch Cement signed a contract with Wanzhou District New Material Industrial Park -- Green Building Materials Base project, in which two production lines of fine machine-made sand aggregate with an annual output of 10 million tons will be built.
June 21, Xunyang Yaobo sand aggregate production line project with annual output of 1.5 million tons was completed and put into operation.
In June, Nanfang Cement Anshan Nanfang Material Co., Ltd. won the mining right of construction stone dolomite in Yuanchong Mining area of Hanshan County at the price of 705 million yuan.
June 28, Hongshi Cement's annual output of 5 million tons of fine aggregate production line was put into operation in Chongzuo, Guangxi.
June 30th, China Resources Cement signed a contract with Changshun County, Guizhou Province for the Project of China Resources Changshun Green Circular Building Materials Industrial Park, which will produce 15 million tons of fine aggregate and 1 million cubic meters of concrete with an annual output of 1 million cubic meters.
◎ In July, China Building Materials aggregate production line with annual output of 5 million tons will be launched in Lanzhou.
On August 6th, Zhongyang Conch New material project was signed. It plans to invest and construct an annual output of 20 million tons of fine aggregate, machine sand and deep processing project, with a total planned investment of about 3 billion yuan.
◎ In September, Conch Cement and The People's Government of Youxi County, Sanming City, Fujian Province signed the "Conch (Youxi) Green Building Materials Industrial Park Investment Agreement", which includes an investment of about 500 million yuan and the planned construction of a green building aggregate project with an annual output of 5 million tons.
November 12, China Resources Cement (Sealing) Co., LTD won the mining right of cement batching mudstone mine in Fenghuangshan Mining area, Fengkai County, Guangdong Province with 132.1 million yuan.
November 16th, Anhui Conch Cement Co., LTD successfully won the mining right of Xuejin Construction Andesite mine in Bowang District, Maanshan city, Anhui Province with RMB 3.825 billion yuan, which will add 9.6 million tons/year aggregate capacity for Conch Cement.
November 22, Huaxin Cement (Zigui) Co., Ltd. won the mining right of The Cement limestone mine of Heshengpu in Guojiaba Town of Zigui County with 231.15 million yuan.
◎ On November 25, China Resources Cement invested RMB 5 billion in wuhua to build a green new building materials industrial park, which mainly includes supporting high-performance mine aggregate and high-quality machine-made sand production base.
November 27, SINoma International (Nanjing) and China Resources Cement signed the EPC contract of Zhao-Qing Runxin Large Discharge Mine with annual output of 30 million tons of aggregate project. The contract content is to build a new production line of fine sand aggregate with an annual output of 30 million tons from granite ore entering the factory to machine-made sand aggregate products leaving the factory and aggregate mine design of the project.
November 28, Xunyang Company of Yaobo Group successfully accepted the production line of sand aggregate with an annual output of 1.5 million tons.
November 28, Jidong Cement 4 million tons of fine sand aggregate project was officially completed and put into operation, with an annual output of 4 million tons of mechanical sand and aggregate, marking a steady step in the transformation and upgrading of the enterprise.
◎ In December, the construction of the 5 million tons sand aggregate production line project of Southwest Cement is accelerating, with a total investment of over 350 million yuan and an annual output of 5 million tons of new environment-friendly high-quality sand aggregate.
December 3, Conch Cement invested 2 billion yuan to establish Maanshan Conch Green Building Materials Co., LTD., and added sand aggregate business.
◎ Recently, Conch Cement once again announced that it intends to subscribe 251 million shares of China West Construction Non-public Development Bank A shares with its own funds of about 1.76 billion yuan. Upon completion of this subscription, the company will hold 16.3% of the shares of Western Construction, becoming its second largest shareholder. Western construction announced the same period, specifically pointed out the sand aggregate business cooperation. Sand and stone aggregate is the focus of conch cement industry chain development during the "14th Five-year plan" period. Both parties can use their respective advantages to jointly develop and acquire new limestone mineral resources in the region where the joint venture company is located. On the other hand, the construction of western China has a huge demand for sand and gravel aggregate, so both sides can carry out cooperation in the supply and marketing of sand and gravel aggregate.
To sum up, it is expected that the aggregate production capacity of cement enterprises in the "14th Five-Year plan" will exceed 1 billion tons, and the aggregate production capacity of Hubei, Jiangxi and Guangxi regions will achieve double growth, mainly with the participation of large enterprises such as China Building Materials, Huaxin Cement, Conch Cement and China Resources Cement.
In the future, with the slowdown of real estate and infrastructure investment, as well as the structural optimization brought by carbon neutrality and energy consumption control, the decline of cement demand has become an inevitable trend, which will force the entire industry to optimize the stock, and the cement industry will further integrate and concentrate in the future.
Whether it is the pursuit of environmental protection to realize the effective use of waste gas resources, or the pursuit of economic benefits to reduce production costs and ensure product quality, cement enterprises layout of sand aggregate field is a very wise choice, related to the survival and long-term development of enterprises. At the same time, to change the past single extensive traditional sand aggregate processing, into large-scale, high-quality, green, digital and efficient development, cement enterprises are in urgent need of further improvement.