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Vicat

Vicat's turnover improved by 6.0 per cent in 2014 to EUR2423m, which translates into an underlying increase of eight per cent on a like-for-like basis. Turnover in cement advanced by 13.7 per cent...
Corporate - 05 March 2015

Yanbu Cement Co signs contract for WHR plant

Yanbu Cement Company (YCC), one of Saudi Arabia’s leading cement companies and a major player in the western region of the kingdom, has signed a contract for the establishment of a 34MW waste heat...
News - 05 March 2015

Iran 11-month export update

Iran exported 17.5Mt  of cement and clinker in the first 11 months of the current Iranian fiscal year (21 March  2014-19 February 2015), according to the industry's association. Secretary of Ira...
News - 04 March 2015

Shree commissions cement mill at Chhattisgarh, India

Shree Cement has commissioned a 2.6Mta cement mill at Baloda Bazar near Raipur in Chhattisgarh, India, on 24 February 2015, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. Shree Cement’s eight c...
News - 03 March 2015

Dalmia Bharat increases stake in OCL India

Dalmia Bharat has increased its stake in OCL India, one of the largest cement entities in eastern India with plants in Orissa and West Bengal. “The company’s subsidiary Company, Dalmia Cement (Bh...
News - 25 February 2015

Holcim sees 3% improvement in like-for-like net sales

Holcim increased net sales by three per cent on a like-for-like basis in 2014. Growth mostly resulted from price improvements in many regions, particularly in North America against a favourable ma...
News - 23 February 2015

Indian producers roll back prices

Indian cement producers have rolled back cement price increases announced in January due to a weaker than expected cement demand off-take. "The dispatch scenario is very gloomy. The January-Mar...
News - 23 February 2015

CCI clears LH merger on condition

The Competition Commission of India has reportedly given the green light to the Lafarge and Holcim merger on condition it divests divests some of its units, including limestone reserves, to preven...
News - 23 February 2015

LH: potential merger of Indian operations on the cards?

Lafarge and Holcim may bring together their local Indian interests as part of the merger process between the two global cement majors, according to local press. The Economic Times reported yester...
News - 20 February 2015

India: Malabar Cements to resume Cherthala operations

Malabar Cements Limited (MCL) will resume operations at its Cherthala unit in the Indian state of Kerala, by the end of this month, having secured uninterrupted clinker supplies. K Padmakumar, ma...
News - 20 February 2015