International Cement Review articles tagged under : Corporate Analysis
Votorantim Cimentos’ solid and sustainable growth
Votorantim Cimentos CEO, Osvaldo Ayres, highlights the company’s achievements and sets his sights on the future as the cement producer pursues a strategy of robust and sustainable growth going forward. By Osvaldo Ayres, Votorantim Cimentos, Brazil In the town of Itaperuçu, Paraná, Votorantim Cimentos will be spending BRL145m in the first site in Brazil dedicated exclusively to the co...
China leads cement revolution in Africa
Cement demand in China continues to collapse, and profits are pitiful, leading to some Chinese cement companies accelerating an already aggressive drive into Africa. By Tony Hadley African Advisory Ltd, Cyprus. ...
Achieving critical Mass in Iraq’s cement industry
The Mass Cement plant is one of several located in the Bazian area in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. As an established cement plant and the largest in the country, it has been under strict environmental performance r...
Votorantim Cimentos’ green credentials
As part of Votorantim Cimentos’ decarbonisation strategy, the company has become a pioneer in the promotion of Brazil’s first Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for cement and concrete products. The EPDs provi...
New capacity for new cement
Titan America LLC has fully converted its cement production to low-carbon Type IL limestone cement. To enable this change the company has opened and expanded several terminals and additional facilities are also under...
Going Green in Dubai
Green Cement Factory LLC (GCF), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Shun Shing Group, commenced commercial operations of its greenfield slag grinding plant in March 2021. The new 1Mta state-of-the-art facility is based i...
Paths to decarbonisation
Heidelberg Materials and Holcim, Europe’s two largest cement producers by revenue, have embarked on very different paths to reduce their carbon footprints to net zero by 2050. While Heidelberg Materials aims to pione...
PNG’s new plant prospects
When Australia-based development company Mayur Resources discovered 382Mt of high-grade limestone resources adjacent to the ocean just 25km from Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby in 2016, it was a moment of exc...
Building a better Australia
Adbri has been integral to the use of slag cements in Australia since the 1970s. Here, the company looks at how the role of slag cements in the Australian cement industry has progressed and the importance of strong p...
SOBOCE invests in the future
As Bolivia’s economy slowly recovers from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic cement producer Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento (SOBOCE) accelerates its digital transformation process to meet market demand mor...
Yacuses steps up
Since the commissioning of its integrated Yacuses cement plant in Bolivia, Itacamba Cemento has put several measures in place to improve the quality of its cement while reducing the impact of the plant on the environ...
C’est la Vicat
Since Louis Vicat discovered artificial cement in 1817, the France-based Vicat group has expanded to be a major cement producer in 12 countries. The family-owned business was founded in 1853 when it launched its firs...
Buzzi Unicem: Italy and beyond
The growth of Buzzi Unicem into a major multinational has taken more than a century. While its operations span the Atlantic and stretch to the Russian Urals in the east and the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East to th...
Eagle Materials spreads its wings
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Eagle Materials Inc has grown from its early beginnings as part of Centex Corp into a multi-product building materials company. It is the largest US-owned cement firm, trades on the Ne...
Identifying and managing risk
When developing cement plant projects, it is not possible to address every aspect of risk theory, nor every possible specific risk to be encountered. This article, however, offers considerations from the perspective ...
Rock solid contribution
With limestone, dolomite and gabbro deposits totalling a combined production of over 80Mta and reserves of over 4.5bnt, Stevin Rock is a key global producer of crushed rock. Its quarries in the United Arab Emirates (...