Gypsum industry news

Vietnam: Knauf Vietnam has introduced Duc Nam Construction and Trading Company as its first gypsum wallboard distributor in Hanoi in northern Vietnam. This is its second distributor in Vietnam after assigning one in the Cuu Long Delta region. Having received an investment license in 2013, Knauf Vietnam is building a 12Mm²/yr capacity gypsum wallboard plant worth US$40.7m in the northern province of Haiphong.

Vietnam: David Victor Thomas, general director of Knauf Vietnam, has announced that Thuan Hung Building Materials Co, based in Tien Giang Province, will be the first distributor of Knauf's gypsum wallboard in the region.

Knauf has imported its products to Vietnam since late 2013. The company was licensed to build a wallboard factory in the city of Haiphong in 2013 and its products will be launched in 2015.

Vietnam: Gypsum and Cement JSC posted a net profit of US$173,900 in the first half of 2013, versus US$184,834 a year earlier. The company generated revenue of US$13.3m in the period, versus US$12.3m over the same period of 2012.

In the second-quarter of 2013, the company posted a US$112,800 net profit on US$7.5m revenue, compared to US$137,440 and US$7.3m a year before.

Vietnam/Indonesia: Lafarge Boral Gypsum Asia, soon to be wholly-owned by Boral, has awarded a new contract to Claudius Peters Projects GmbH Germany for two gypsum calcining lines with a capacity of up to 30t/h to expand its gypsum wallboard production in Asia.

In Vietnam a fully-integrated line will be installed at the site of Lafarge Boral Vietnam Gypsum Co. Ltd near Ho Chi Minh City, extending the capacity of the current wallboard production line. The second line will be installed in Indonesia and will be part of an extension programme of the Cilegon installation of PT Petrojaya Boral Plasterboard.

Both of the lines consist of a Claudius Peters Mill EM59-585 along with the auxiliary equipment and controls of a complete raw material handling, gypsum calcining and cooling system.