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Cemex UK Climafuel plant to be smaller in scale thanks to technology advances
Cemex UK's new Climafuel waste processing plant no longer needs to be as large as originally planned thanks to advances in technology. In April last year, SITA UK, one of the UK’s leading recycling and resource management companies, announced that it was joining forces with Cemex to...
Vietnam calls on producers to report on export activities
Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction is urging cement producers to report on their export activities and cooperate fairly to prevent further losses. According to reports by Vietnam NewsBrief service, the move follow...
Competition Commission findings may force UK disposals
The UK’s Competition Commission (CC) is lining up a range of measures to open up the UK cement market including the possible disposal of plants and reduction of capacity, after provisionally finding that the sector's...
Texas Industries achieves operational status of new kiln line, USA
Texas Industries Inc announced today that its Texas subsidiary has achieved operational status of its second kiln at its Hunter cement plant, near New Braunfels, Texas. Following a successful commissioning process wh...
Lafarge India receives environmental approval for Chhattisgarh expansion
Lafarge India has received approval from the environmental ministry to proceed a project to double capacity at its Chhattisgarh plant, a government official has said. The Indian unit of the French cement major pla...
Nepal billionaire plans new Sri Lanka factory
Nepal's first Forbes billionaire, Binod Chaudhary, plans to set up a state-of-the-art cement plant in the high growth-market of Sri Lanka. Quoting a statement issued by Chaudhary's office, the Daily Mirror said in...
New Uzbekistan cement plant on track for year-end commissioning
A new 0.45Mta cement plant being constructed by Russian investors in Uzbekistan is on track for commissioning by the end of this year. Russian company OOO IP Surhan Cementinvest is building the factory in the Kurk...
New South Africa industry body announced
A newly-constituted industry body, The Concrete Institute, funded by AfriSam, Lafarge and a new cement producer, Sephaku, is to continue the services provided by the former Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI), which c...
Spanish cement consumption falls by a quarter
Spanish cement consumption fell 25.5 per cent over the first four months of 2012, down to 3.472Mt, latest data from domestic association Oficemen shows. In April alone, demand was 139,578t less than April 2012 to...
Indian producers directed to pay 10% of CCI penalty
India’s Competition Appellate Tribunal has said that cement companies must pay 10 per cent of the INR6307 crore penalty issued to them by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for cartel practices. Passing an ...
JKCL cement plant set for July completion, India
A cement grinding plant being constructed by Jammu and Kashmir Cements Ltd (JKCL) in northern India is set for completion in July, the state government has said. Sajad Ahmed Kichloo, Minister for Industries and Co...
Tunisia records 3% YoY rise in April cement sales
Tunisia’s April cement sales are up 3.35 per cent YoY, although the sales of Ciments de Bizerte and Oum Kelil fell during march due to technical and social issues, according to the country’s Ministry of Industry. ...
US first-quarter figures shipments impacted by harsh winter
Preliminary data from the US Geological Survey shows that shipments of Portland and blended cement in 1Q13 were marginally higher compared to the same period of last year but harsh weather conditions, particularly in...
Indonesia cement sales rise 8.6%, Jan-Apr 2013
Indonesian cement sales increased by 8.6 per cent in the four months to the end of April 2013, the latest data from the Indonesian Cement Association (ASI) reveals. Sales for the January-April 2013 period reached ...
Upward trend in Ecuadorian sales continue
Domestic cement sales on the Ecuadorian market in the first four months of 2013 rose by 14.2 per cent YoY while April sales alone surpassed 500,000t. Latest data from the country's cement association INECYC shows ...
New cement unit for Tunisia operational by 2014
Tunisia will expand its cement production facilities in the region of Bizerte by 2014, according to Mehdi Jomaa, the country’s minister of industry. State-owned Ciments de Bizerte operates at around 1Mta. The exte...