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Operations resume at Awarpur plant, India
Operations have resumed at UltraTech’s Awarpur cement plant in the state of Maharashtra following a temporary closure due to strike action. The 3.6Mta has been shut since 14 March 2013 due to worker’s unrest but were restarted yesterday morning. UltraTech said in a filing to the st...
Argentine February shipments decline
Argentine cement plants shipped 839,223t, including exports, representing a decline of 7.1 per cent on February last year, according to the latest data published by association AFCP. On a month-on-month (MoM) basi...
Holcim and Heidelberg to operate Cement Australia as a joint venture
Holcim Ltd said Thursday it plans to sell a 25 per cent stake in Cement Australia to HeidelbergCement and operate the company as an equally-controlled joint venture between the two cement majors. Holcim and Heidelb...
Lafarge Zambia: sufficient stocks to cater for demand
With Zambia readying itself to co-host the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) General Assembly later this year, the official distributor of Lafarge Zambia’s products has said the cement producer has ad...
Taiwan Cement operating at full rate, China
Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC) is operating at full utilisation rates in China due to increased demand, the company has said. TCC said that workers have returned to construction sites across the country following the Lu...
Indocement nears completion of feasibility study for two plants
PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa, Indonesia’s second-largest cement producer, has said it is in the final stages of a feasibility study to build two new plants. Company president, Daniel Lavelle, told ANTARA news agen...
Brazil February cement sales edge ahead
Cement sales in the Brazilian cement market in February 2013 reached 5.1Mt, up 2.2 per cent on the same month of last year, according to data released by Sindicato Nacional da Indústria do Cimento. For the first t...
COMPAT hearing set to resume, India
The Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) hearing is to resume today over petitions filed by cement companies over the INR63.07bn (US$1.1bn) penalty imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CC) on grounds o...
Lafarge executive visits Pakistan operations
Lafarge's executive vice president of Energy and Strategic Sourcing, Peter James Hoddinott, has visited the group's operations in Pakistan to review its latest sustainability achievements and explore export potential...
HeidelbergCement expands capacity in Ghana
HeidelbergCement is constructing a new cement mill with an annual capacity of 0.8Mta at its grinding plant in the port city of Takoradi. The investment of US$30m also includes the construction of a new clinker and a ...
Credit Suisse expects improved Indian pricing environment
The Indian cement sector could see an uptick in cement prices in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 with the biggest improvements expected to be in the north, a report on the sector by Credit Suisse has said. "Cemen...
Titan Cement denies headquarter move
Titan Cement has denied reports in the press that it is moving its headquarters from Greece. In response to reports on online and printed media the country's second-largest cement producer said in statement released ...
Egypt’s Ministry holds talks with cement industry over price concerns
Egypt’s Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade has said it will take measures to curb rises in cement prices following meetings held with cement companies, according to local press reports. Hatem Saleh, Minister of ...
Vizag Cement inaugurates slag grinding plant, India
The Vizag Cement Works has officially inaugurated its slag grinding unit at the Visakhapatnam Special Economic Zone, a major industrial centre in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India . Vizag Cement was wholly-acqui...
Unicem to invest US$500m in new line, Nigeria
United Cement Company (UNICEM) has said it plans to spend US$500m on a second line at it cement works in Nigeria and will boost investments going forward amid an increasingly competitive operating environment. Spe...
Credit Suisse sees Indian cement sector expanding
Credit Suisse says margins in India's cement sector should expand over the next two years on the back of price increases and improvement in demand, among other factors. Reuters reported that the investment bank ...