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India: local residents in favour of Jorabat cement plant

Plans to set up a 500tpd cement plant near Jorabat, Assam, India, have received the support of local residents. The Pollution Control Board Assam has conducted a public hearing in the premises of ...
News - 21 April 2016

Pakistan: Builders hit out against high cement prices

The Chairman of Pakistan’s Association of Builders and Developers (ABAD), Hanif Gonar, has accused the country’s cement manufacturers of keeping prices artificially high. In a report in the Dai...
News - 19 April 2016

India: LafargeHolcim sale temporarily halted by court

The sale of 11Mta of LafargeHolciim assets in India has been put on hold by India's Competition Appellate Tribunal. According to Mint an appeal has been lodged by Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd. ag...
News - 18 April 2016

Filter bags for cement industries

In the current global economic climate, industries around the world are under pressure to raise efficiency and cut costs and the cement industry is no exception; furthermore, for reserve the ...
Technical Cement Forum - 15 April 2016

Attock Cement posts positive 9MFY16 results

Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd (ACPL) has announced in its 9MFY16 results it earned a NET profit of PKR2.094bn during 9MFY16 (July-March) against PKR1.644bn during 9MFY15, up 27 per cent, YoY, on the ...
News - 15 April 2016

Cement exports on the rise

As global cement capacity continues to rise against a limited demand increase, there is a swell of cement producers chasing ever-smaller export markets across the globe. News this week that Saudi ...
News - 15 April 2016

Ten bidders chase LafargeHolcim Indian assets

The sale of LafargeHolcim's Indian operations has attracted considerable interest, with the company having received bids from 10 groups interested in buying the assets. According to India's Eco...
News - 14 April 2016

India: Cement stocks rise as demand recovers

Indian cement manufacturers are set to continue the strong performance which has seen their stocks outperform the BSE Sensex by a factor of ten over the past month. In this period, the Economic...
News - 14 April 2016

India: ACC Ltd to raise capacity to over 33Mta

ACC Ltd will spend about INR6000 (US$89.9m) in 2016-17 to complete its cement capacity expansion plans. ACC is building two cement units at Jamul and Sindri with a combined capacity of 2.4Mta. Fo...
News - 14 April 2016

Thailand: Italcementi to keep ASEAN base

Thailand will continue to be Italcementi Group's production base in ASEAN and its base for expanding into Myanmar after HeidelbergCement acquires Italmobiliare's 45 per cent stake in Italcementi ...
News - 11 April 2016