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British Gypsum shuts operations down
Written by Global Gypsum staff
01 April 2020
UK: France-based Saint-Gobain subsidiary British Gypsum has announced the suspension of non-essential operations until 22 April 2020, subject to regular review in light of government advice. British Gypsum managing director Matt Pullen said, “Further information on when new orders can be placed and deliveries made will be available nearer the time, after the safe re-start of our operations.”
The company says that it will retain a ‘small-scale customer services, operations and logistics team to be able to provide drylining products to support those NHS and other Covid-19 response essential infrastructure and building projects.’
Saint-Gobain North America offers coronavirus help
Written by Global Gypsum staff
01 April 2020
US: France-based Saint-Gobain subsidiary has reached out to ‘federal, state and local government to understand where and how’ it can redeploy ‘technologies, manufacturing operations and human expertise to help them address the covid-19 crisis.’ It also extended the offer of assistance to its partners, suppliers and customers ‘in their own efforts to help.’
Department of Industry and Mines lowers 2020 gypsum export quota
Written by Global Gypsum staff
26 March 2020
Thailand: The Department of Primary Industries and Mines (DPIM) has lowered Thailand’s gypsum export quota to 6.0Mt in 2020, the same as in 2019 and down by 17% from it original 2020 quota of 7.0Mt.
Thailand’s 2019 gypsum exports were 5.04Mt.
BNBM shares 2019 results
Written by Global Gypsum staff
25 March 2020
China: Beijing National Building Materials (BNBM) recorded a net profit of US$62.3m in 2019, down by 82% year-on-year from US$348m, ‘mainly caused by settlement fees.’ Its profit after deduction of non-recurring profit and loss was US$335m, down by 7.0% from US$359m in 2018. Its revenue rose by 6.0% to US1.88bn from US$1.77bn.
BNBM’s gypsum wallboard sales volumes were 1.97Bnm2, up by 5.2% year-on-year from 1.87Bnm2. This corresponds to a 2019 Chinese market share by volume of 59%.
Simotix Connect 400 forms basis of Currax and Siemens joint Industry 4.0 pilot project
Written by Global Gypsum staff
24 March 2020
Germany: Currax and Siemens have announced their collaboration on a mill operations digitisation pilot project involving the Simotics Connect 400 motor data collector and transmitter. They hope that analysis of data processed via the Simotics 400 will better enable the remote operating of mills ‘to increase efficiency and component life’ and speeding the shift towards automation and production that is resilient to crises such as the coronavirus outbreak.