Global Cement Report
Estonia
PDFFull Introduction ReportDownload HereThe Estonian cement market hit new record highs in 2005, enabling the renovation of the Kunda works, the country's sole cement plant. Meanwhile, the outlook looks very encouraging.
Country Research
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Raising global AFR usage
03 December 2012HeidelbergCement is building its resourceful waste management programme and extending its reach to more distant destinations as the value of alternative fuels in the cement industry becomes more w...
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Nordic stability lies ahead
24 March 2012The Nordic cement markets comprising Sweden, Norway, Finland, Demark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have many modern cement plants operating kilns with some of the highest alternative fuel substit...
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HeidelbergCement
30 November 2011HeidelbergCement's nine-month turnover improved by 8.4% to €9619.7m while the EBITDA advanced more modestly by 2.5% to €1682m as energy costs rose. At the trading level, the profit was ahead by 1.6...
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New Estonia plant project to be relaunched in 2015
03 November 2011Estonia-based chemical company Viru Keemia Grupp (VKG) is planning to relaunch the plan for a new cement plant which it had stalled in 2009. "The cement plant project was shelved so it could be t...
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Cement under the EU ETS
24 October 2011The 2005 European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) covers some 11,300 factories and power stations across 10 industrial sectors in 30 countries, involving almost half of Europe’s carbon emissi...
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Cemex
30 September 2011Cemex plans to dispose of around US$1bn of assets between now and the end of 2012 to reduce debt. Lorenzo Zambrano said that about US$180m of these disposals should happen during this year and decl...
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HeidelbergCement expects further advances in spite of higher energy costs
01 August 2011HeidelbergCement’s first half turnover rose by 9.5% to €5996m, but the EBITDA improved by a more modest 4.6% to €904.3m as energy costs rose and the trading profit advanced by 5.7% to €501.2m. The...
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HeidelbergCement
31 July 2011HeidelbergCement inaugurated its new 2Mta integrated cement works at Novogurovsky in the Tula region, some 150 km south of Moscow, on 13 July. TulaCement represents an investment of some €300m and ...