What is happening in the cement industry?

2025-10-11

On September 29, the General Administration of Trade Relief of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India announced the final anti-dumping "proposal" to levy a tax rate on photovoltaic cells and components imported from China, with a planned period of three years and a tax rate range of 0-30%.

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On September 28, Tongwei Global Innovation R & D Center (hereinafter referred to as "R & D Center") again spread good news-the industry's first fully automatic megawatt perovskite-crystalline silicon tandem battery test line was fully connected, marking that the R & D Center continued to lead the pace of the industry in the industrialization process of tandem batteries.

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The bidding project is located in Lishi Town, Jiangjin District, Chongqing, with a construction scale of 200MW and a planned construction period from December 31, 2025 to December 31, 2026.

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On October 9, Datang Chongqing Tongliang District Shanxin 50 MW Agricultural Photovoltaic Power Generation New Project EPC General Contracting Tender Announcement was issued, and the tenderer was Yuneng (Group) Co., Ltd.

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On October 9, * ST Jianyi announced that due to significant changes in the market environment and strategic adjustments of all parties, it intends to terminate the project with an annual output of 3,000 tons of monocrystalline silicon rods and cancel the project company "Jianyi Zhengyao".

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According to foreign media reports, on October 6, SMA Solar, a German solar inverter manufacturer, announced that by the end of 2026, it would lay off about 300 people in Germany and about 50 people in the international market.

2025-10-10

Recently, the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region released the list of green manufacturing demonstration units at the autonomous region level in 2025. There are 31 green factories at the autonomous region level, 1 green supply chain management enterprise at the autonomous region level and 1 green industrial park at the autonomous region level.

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Recently, SMA Solar, a German photovoltaic and energy storage inverter manufacturer, announced that it would lay off 300 people in Germany and 50 overseas by the end of 2026 due to weak market and competitive pressure. Layoffs were slightly more than 9%.

2025-10-10

In the first half of 2025, the revenue and gross profit scale of four overseas multinational cement groups, Old Castle, Holcim, Heidelberg and Cemex, increased or decreased differently. However, thanks to the continuous reduction of sales costs, operating costs and the improvement of asset disposal gains and losses, the net profit of other multinational cement groups has increased except the Old Castle Group.

2025-10-10

According to the Opinions on Implementation, new load supporting projects are encouraged to obtain approval (filing) procedures, and new loads that have not been reported for installation, have not started construction and conform to the industrial policies of the state and the autonomous region are encouraged to build wind power and photovoltaic power stations according to their own electricity demand, so as to realize the nearby consumption of green electricity.

2025-10-10

Shangfeng Cement announced today that its subsidiary Shangfeng Building Materials and China Building Materials (Anhui) New Materials Fund has established Guocai II Enterprise Management Co., Ltd. with Guocai II as its general partner. Shangfeng subsidiary Ningbo Shangrong and China Building Materials (Anhui) New Materials Fund, China Building Materials Joint Investment, China State-owned Enterprises Mixed Reform Fund, Chengtong Kechuang Investment Fund, Hangzhou Yihong Equity Investment, etc. Jointly established Guocai No.3 Limited Partnership for Limited Partners with a total investment of 1.476 billion yuan. It has invested in Jiangsu Xinhua Semiconductor, the largest electronic grade polysilicon manufacturer in the semiconductor industry in China.

2025-10-10

On September 30, the State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power issued a price bidding announcement for the 2025 annual incremental new energy project mechanism in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The announcement shows that at 19:00 from October 10 to 11, the wind power and centralized photovoltaic projects in Xinjiang participated in the bidding through the new energy cloud platform, and the distributed photovoltaic and distributed new energy project aggregators declared the electricity quantity and price through the "online State Grid" App.

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On October 9, the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued a notice formally incorporating the preparation technology of cathode materials for lithium batteries and related items of artificial graphite anode materials into the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited and Restricted from Export in China.

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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued a circular to deploy the work of recommending green factories in 2025. This year's recommendation work includes green factories and green industrial parks. Enterprises or parks that meet the relevant requirements of the Interim Measures for Gradient Cultivation and Management of Green Factories shall conduct self-evaluation according to the new evaluation requirements on a voluntary basis. The competent departments of industry and information technology at the provincial level shall conduct the selection according to the principle of "selecting the best from the best, rather lack than abuse", and the recommended enterprises or parks shall not be lower than average level of the existing national green factories and green industrial parks in the region in principle.

2025-10-10

In October 9th, the Shanghai index broke through the 3900 integer mark for the first time in 10 years. Shares of 77 of the 109 photovoltaic listed companies rose collectively, with the highest increase of 17.75%.

2025-10-10

According to the statistics of China Cement Network, in September 2025, 13 provinces in China involved 30 cement clinker production capacity replacement production line projects, and the total supplementary capacity reached t/d 30808.

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The announcement made it clear that the main body of the bidding declaration was a new energy project with full capacity connected to the grid from June 1, 2025 (including) to December 31, 2026 (including) and not included in the implementation scope of the mechanism tariff, including centralized photovoltaic, centralized wind power, distributed photovoltaic, decentralized wind power, biomass power generation, etc., and the new energy project with full capacity connected to the grid from June 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026 (including). It does not include projects with large cost differences such as offshore wind power and special new energy projects whose prices have been formed through competitive allocation.

2025-10-10

Recently, Libya's Ministry of Industry and Minerals held key talks at its office in Misrata on the construction of a modern cement plant by Hungary's Rotary International Ltd. Mustafa Samu, the deputy minister in charge, stressed the need for the new plant to adopt a "zero pollution" process to fill the gap in the local market and reduce the proportion of imported cement. The two sides discussed the landing mechanism of the scheme to integrate foreign capital, technology and local resources and labor. Samu said that the Libyan side would reshape the local manufacturing industry and provide "one-stop" policy escort for foreign partners. He also praised Rotary and looked forward to more projects to make up for the industrial shortcomings.

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From September 29, 2025 to October 5, 2025, the highest opening rate of cement kilns in all provinces in China is Tianjin, with the opening rate of 100.00%. Kiln opening rate of 50% and above: 72.30% in Anhui Province and 54.69% in Zhejiang Province.

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