Cement News tagged under: Corporate Social Responsibility
Dangote Cement's corporate social responsibility work gains recognition03 March 2023, Published under Cement NewsDangote Cement has scooped a number of awards in Zambia and Senegal in recognition of its corporate social responsibility actions. In Senegal the Conseil National du Patronat (CNP) acknowledged the cement producer's local subsidiary for planting hundreds of trees to mitigate against desert encroachment in various parts of the country, reports The Day Live. Meanwhile, in Zambia, Dangote’s Ndola subsidiary picked up the Best Community Social Impact Award for Youth Development in recog... |
Spain’s cement industry raises local social investments to EUR5.2m in 2021-2201 July 2022, Published under Cement NewsThe cement industry in Spain has increased its social investments in the communities where it operates its 32 plants by 79 per cent to EUR5.2m in the last two years, reports the Spanish cement association, OFICEMEN. The findings were published in the latest Study on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the cement sector, which has been carried out on alternate years since 2014 by the Cement Labour Foundation and the Environment (CEMA Foundation), in collaboration with Forética. Given t... |
INSEE Cement (Lanka) holds child career guidance programme27 January 2021, Published under Cement NewsINSEE Cement (Lanka) Plc has held a ’Find Your Spark', an interactive virtual career guidance programme. The objective of the programme was to equip the children of employees with the right knowledge and skills to grow their talent, choose their future career wisely and achieve their best. The programme included a series of workshops conducted by a panel of renowned professionals, whom the children could look up to as role models. Gustavo Navarro, CEO of INSEE Cement (Lanka) s... |
Kohat Cement awards scholarships03 July 2019, Published under Cement NewsKohat Cement Ltd, has awarded scholarships to engineering students of University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar, Pakistan. As part of its social corporate responsibility to help local communities in education sector, the deserving students belonging to Kohat have been awarded these scholarships to cover their tuition fee. This was stated by Col Anjmal Khan (retired), general manager admin, Kohat Cement in an award distribution ceremony, held recently. Chancellor, UET Peshawa... |
Cemex’s Bloqueras Solidarias Program recognised in Colombia07 September 2017, Published under Cement NewsThe Colombian Construction Chamber of Commerce (CAMACOL) awarded Cemex’s Bloqueras Solidarias program the Community Prize for Best Management in recognition of its efforts to help low-income families build their own homes. The CAMACOL awarded Cemex Colombia the Community Prize for Best Management in recognition of its efforts under the Bloqueras Solidarias initiative. Ricardo Naya, President of Cemex Colombia, received the award from Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia. Through Bloqu... |
Arabian Cement launches round 2 of social start-up22 May 2017, Published under Cement NewsEgypt-based Arabian Cement Company (ACC) has launched the second round of its social start-up programme, continuing in partnership with Nahdet El Mahrousa (NM), TradeArabia reports. Building on the success of the first round, Khaleeha Suessi will offer entrepreneurship training for 15 shortlisted start-ups, out of which more than six start-ups will eventually receive seed funding and incubation services for one year. This round of Khaleeha Suessi is bringing together several community c... |
Cemex publishes report on environmental and social achievements in 201631 March 2017, Published under Cement NewsCemex has published its first integrated report , covering 2016. The report brings together the information that the company had in published in separate annual and sustainability reports in previous years. The integrated report thus covers both Cemex’s financial performance for 2016, which the firm had already released in February , and its work in other areas, including its efforts to improve environmental performance and to promote corporate social responsibility. “As a unified gl... |
Philippines: Republic Cement expands affordable housing initiative02 November 2016, Published under Cement NewsRepublic Cement has announced plans to partner with three microfinance organisations to provide housing and home-improvement loans, the Manila Times reports. “Republic Cement is dedicated to helping address the Philippine housing backlog through collaborations that create shared value for those at the bottom of the pyramid,” said Renato Sunico, president of Republic Cement and Building Materials Inc. “Affordable housing is one of the major pillars of our iSTAND4 programme, which covers... |
Pakistan: Lucky Cement highlights its social impact18 July 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe largest Pakistani cement manufacturer, Lucky Cement, has highlighted the contribution its operations have made to their locality and the country’s economy reports the Daily Times. Lucky Cement has pointed out that in 2014-15 it paid the government more than PKR7bn (US$67m) in sales and income taxes and generated PKR14bn (US$134m) in foreign exchange. In addition, the company has undertaken a programme to provide clean water supplies to residents of Pezu, its base of operations, whi... |
Recognition for Taiheiyo Cement Corp's CSR Report 201525 February 2016, Published under Cement NewsTaiheiyo Cement Corporation’s CSR Report 2015, published last September, has been awarded the “Excellence prize for special recognition” in the environmental reparation section of the 19th Environmental Communication Awards, sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment and the Global Environmental Forum. Established in 1997, the Environmental Communication Awards promote efforts in corporate environmental management and environmental communication, and aim to raise the quality of inform... |