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Vietnam cement producers struggle to boost exports

Vietnam reaped US$156.39m from cement exports in the first eight months of this year, fulfilling 46.2% of the country’s whole year target, the Ministry of Construction said. The ministry had earli...
News - 05 October 2011

PPC acquires Quarries of Botswana

As part of its southern Africa expansion strategy, Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) has acquired three aggregate quarries from Quarries of Botswana.         The BWP50m (US$6.8m) acquisition is par...
News - 04 October 2011

Vietnam producers struggle to find export markets

Vietnam cement producers are struggling to find new export markets as they seek to sell excess cement volumes. At the end of 2010, Vietnam had exported nearly 1Mt of cement and clinker by the Vie...
News - 03 October 2011

PPC launches new cement

Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) has launched a new cement mix in Botswana. According Richard Tomes, Customer Executive in the research and development arm of PPC, the new revamped products are set ...
News - 21 September 2011

South Africa’s PPC forecasts lower profits

Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) on Tuesday advised that it expects headline earnings per share for the year ending September 2011 to be between 25% and 30% lower than 218.7 cents previously. The ...
News - 21 September 2011

Holcim Awards Winners for Africa Middle East

The winners of the 3rd International Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects and visions from Africa Middle East have been announced at a ceremony in Casablanca. A total ...
News - 15 September 2011

South African August sales rise 4.6% YoY

Recent data from the Cement and Concrete Institute of South Africa shows that sales for August 2011 totaled 1.01Mt compared to 0.97Mt in 2010, representing a an increase of 4.6%.

 Year to-date s...
News - 08 September 2011

Holcim

Holcim increased cement deliveries by 4.7% to 70.9Mt in the first six months and sales of other mineral components jumped by 32.2% to 2.2Mt. Shipments of aggregates rose by 11% to 81.3Mt and ready-...
Corporate - 31 August 2011

Cimpor

Cimpor's first-half turnover improved by 5.7% to €1149.58m and the EBITDA rose by the same percentage to €315.6m. As depreciation and impairment charges only increased by 1.6%, the trading profit (...
Corporate - 31 August 2011

Pakistan monthly export volumes rise

Data from Pakistan’s Federal Bureau of Statistics shows that in the first month of the current fiscal year (July 2011) Pakistan exported 706,936t of cement, earning US$39.072m compared to 673,400t...
News - 26 August 2011