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Pakistan cement sector prospects

Pakistan's construction industry is thriving and is expected to continue doing so in the foreseeable future. However, to maintain healthy capacity utilisation rates, increased exports are neede...
News - 02 June 2017

Vicat

Vicat's first-quarter turnover eased by 0.5 per cent to EUR551m, which represents an underlying advance of 1.4 per cent. The cement turnover declined by three per cent to EUR283m, as cement shipme...
Corporate - 02 June 2017

Plans to set up cement facilities near India’s thermal power plants

Fifteen companies in India have expressed an interest to set up cement plants near NTCP power stations to help dispose the power company of the 52Mt fly ash generated by its projects. In additi...
News - 02 June 2017

Khrew Cement is on target to reach 0.9Mta capacity

Production capacity at JK Cement's Khrew cement plant in India is expected to soon surpass 0.9Mta, the company informed Minister for Industries and Commerce, Chander Parkash Ganga, who recently ...
News - 02 June 2017

Orient Cement to acquire two Jaypee units

Orient Cement has reached an agreement to buy two cement units from Jaypee in the central and eastern regions of India. Orient will buy a 74 per stake in Bhilai which is a joint venture between...
News - 01 June 2017

Dalmia Cement supplies India's longest bridge

Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd has supplied 17,000t of high-quality cement for the construction of the Dhola-Sadiya bridge connecting Arunachal Pradesh to Assam, which was inaugurated on Friday by Ind...
News - 30 May 2017

India: M&A activity at the top

The pace of merger and acquisition activity in the Indian cement industry has picked up over the last year, with the country's leading cement producers in particular looking to strengthen their po...
News - 26 May 2017

Prism Cement quarterly net profit falls

India-based Prism Cement’s net profit fell to INR701.5m (US$10.9m) versus INR756.1m a year earlier.  Consensus forecast for March quarter profit was INR23.01m, according to Reuters. Total incom...
News - 26 May 2017

Pakistan cement exports continue to disappoint

Pakistan exported 225,778t cement in April on revenues of US$13.49m, down 25.28 and 18.54 per cent, respectively compared to the previous month. Compared to April 2016, export volumes were down by...
News - 25 May 2017

UltraTech's purchase of Jaiprakash assets reportedly nears completion

UltraTech Cement cquisition of the cement business of Jaiprakash Associates is expected to be completed in the next few months, a top group executive said in an interview with local media. “The ...
News - 22 May 2017