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Lafarge to build new Rio de Janiero works, Brazil

Lafarge announced on Thursday that it is to construct a second cement plant in Rio de Janeiro to bette...

Reliable performer

Siemens Drives introduces a new asynchronous drive unit for a vertical roller mill at Lafarge Pécs in Hungary. The ne...

Gresik eyes tie-up with Semen Baturaja, Indonesia

Semen Gresik CEO Dwi Soetjipto has expressed an interest in synergising with another state-owned cement producer, Se...

Vietnam Jan-Nov 2012 production declines

Vietnam produced 51.3Mt of cement in the first 11 months of this year, down 5.4 per cent from a year earlier, the Ge...

Bamburi Cement appoints director, Kenya

Bamburi Cement has appointed John Simba as a director. The effective date is November 29, 2012.

Indonesian full-year demand set to beat expectations

Indonesian cement demand is seen closing this year 12 per cent ahead of 2011 figures, above previous expectations of...

UK consolidates impressive environmental performance in 2011

The UK cement industry today published its environmental performance results to the end of 2011 in a new interim sus...

The battle for Michigan & Ohio

Rob Roy provides a market outlook for the industrial states of Michigan and Ohio where a revival in spending for infr...

Business Almaty 2012

Muriel Bal reports from BusinessCem, Kazakhstan, and interviews conference director Evgeny Valyukov.

Raising global AFR usage

Jan Theulen of HeidelbergCement details the group’s global co-processing strategy.

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