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Iraq: time for growth?

Iraq is starting to see investment and action in the construction sector led by higher cement demand. The country’s...

Holcim Switzerland acquires Cand-Landi Group

Holcim Switzerland has acquired the Cand-Landi Group. This transaction is the result of a successful partnership t...

Track and trace system for cement and auxiliary products in Pakistan

The Federal Board of Revenue of the Government of Pakistan (FBR) is seeking applications for the grant of five-year ...

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 establish...

CO2 capture and storage - a German pipe dream waiting to happen?

This week, a report on Germany's CO2 pipeline infrastructure by the country's cement industry association, VDZ, esti...

Heidelberg Materials opens new bagging centre at Mitchell plant

Heidelberg Materials North America has installed a state-of-the-art packaging system at its Mitchell plant in In...

EPA recognises ENERGY STAR cement plants

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognised 103 manufacturing plants that earned the agency’s ENERGY...

Navigating sustainable trade

ICR interviews José Maria Magrina, CEO of Heidelberg Materials Trading, the world’s largest trader of cement and cl...

Indian cement demand growth to decline in 4QFY23-24

India is expected to see a fall in cement demand growth in the final quarter of the current fiscal year (January-Mar...

West China Cement Ltd announces a 65% drop in net profit

West China Cement Ltd has reported a 65.3 per cent decrease in its net income from CNY1214.8m (US$168.7m) in 2022 ...