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SONOCC announces resumption of production

Société nouvelle des ciments du Congo (SONOCC) will restart its production of cement from 31 January after several...

Málaga resumes cement export

Following a stop since September 2021, the export of cement from Málaga, Spain, has resumed. With a frequency of bet...

Sika reports 17% growth in 2021

Sika has recorded sales of CHF9.24bn in 2021 (EUR8.95bn), an YoY uptick of 17.1 per cent in local currencies and 17....

Sika to acquire MBCC Group

Sika has agreed to acquire MBCC Group, formerly BASF Construction Chemicals, from an affiliate of Lone Star Funds fo...

Powering up Pecém

In July 2021 Votorantim Cimentos announced the start of a new line at its grinding plant in Pecém, Brazil. The 0.8Mt...

Reducing methane emissions

As the cement industry prepares to meet its sustainability objectives, this month’s Technical Forum focusses on the ...

Vietnam cement sales slip in 2021 but exports surge

Cement sales in Vietnam edged up by two per cent to 6,135,769t in December 2021, according to the Vietnamese cement ...

Iskitimcement ups output by 20%

Russia-based JSC Iskitimcement (owned by JSC HC Sibcem) produced 1.18Mt of cement in 2021, representing a 20 per cen...

UltraTech Cement announces INR9.65bn capex for Birla White expansion

UltraTech Cement has announced a capital expenditure (capex) plan of INR9.65bn to modernise and almost double the p...

Belarusian cement plants quadruple peat consumption in 2015-21

Belarusian cement plants increased the consumption of peat fuel by 4.36 times to 362,000t between 2015-21, according...

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