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Sinoma Overseas Brazil Co joins Rede Transformar initiative

16 October 2024, Published under Cement News

Sinoma Overseas Brazil Co is the newest member of Rede Transformar, joining 15 other companies that are currently participating in the initiative called Rede Transformar. By becoming a supporting company of Rede Transformar, Sinoma Overseas Brazil Cobecomes part of a movement of partners generating positive social impact in society and promoting sustainable development in communities across Brazil. The Rede Transformar is an initiative by Votorantim Cimentos that brings together partners ...

InterCement Participações SA files restructuring plan to Brazilian courts

18 September 2024, Published under Cement News

InterCement Participações SA (InterCement) has submitted a restructuring plan together with its subsidiaries, InterCement Brasil SA, InterCement Financial Operations BV, IntercCement Trading e Inversiones SA and InterCement Trading e Inversiones Argentina (collectively recuperação extrajudicial (EJ) debtors) to the Brazilian courts. The plan has been approved by the creditors representing more than a third of the indebtedness subject to the EJ in accordance with Brazilian law. The plan ...

Sinoma Overseas to build Votorantim Z02 grinding plant

17 September 2024, Published under Cement News

Sinoma Overseas has secured an engineering and supply contract for the Z02 cement grinding station project in Edealina Brazil, along with a technical cooperation framework agreement, with Votorantim Cimentos SA .   The contract scope includes the design, equipment supply, and technical services for the 150tph cement grinding expansion project costing BRL200m (US$36.47m). The Z02 project will double cement capcity at the Edealina grinding plant to 2Mta and will be completed in the 2H25. ...

Mizu Cementos partners energy company in hydrogen pilot project

30 August 2024, Published under Cement News

Mizu Cimentos is partnering Brazilian energy company CPFL Energia to establish a green hydrogen pilot project in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. CPFL Group has an ESG commitment to invest BRL44m (US$ 7.9m) in sustainable projects. This hydrogen pilot project with Mizu Cimentos, a subsidiary of Organização Polimix, will form part of its part of its green programme. CPFL said that the pilot facility will go through a six-month monitoring period to measure the real impact of gre...

Grupo Argos reports weak results for 2Q24

15 August 2024, Published under Cement News

Grupo Argos, the Colombia-based conglomerate which owns Cementos Argos , has reported a 40 per cent drop in its 2Q24 income, falling to COP189bn (US$47m) from COP315bn in the 2Q23.  In a recent presentation, Argos attributed this drop in income to a 90 per cent fall in proceeds from concessions and a nearly 25 per cent decline in income from its cement business. The group’s revenues for the period April-June fell 17 per cent to COP3.7trn.  The group’s EBITDA decreased by 13 per c...

Votorantim shows strong regional performance in Europe, Asia and Africa

15 August 2024, Published under Cement News

Votorantim Cimentos reports positive results in the 2Q24 for its operations particularly in Europe, Asia and Africa but also in North America.   In Brazil Votorantim Cimentos’ net revenue in the 2Q24 was BRL3.2bn (US$583.1m), flat compared to the same period in 2023. Adjusted EBITDA reached BRL566m in 2Q24, stable compared to the 2Q23, due to a positive trend in new businesses and an improvement in variable costs. In North America net revenue reached BRL2.2bn in the 2Q24, a decrease of ...

Votorantim Cimentos reports net revenue of BRL7bn in the 2Q24

14 August 2024, Published under Cement News

Votorantim Cimentos ended the 2Q24 with a higher net revenue from increased volumes, supported by geographic and product diversification. The company recorded global net revenue of BRL7bn (US$1.27bn) in the 2Q24, a one per cent increase compared to the same period last year, excluding the effect of exchange rate variation. This result is mainly due to the positive performance of operations in Europe, Asia, Africa and Brazil. In the 2Q24 the company’s global cement sales totalled 9.6Mt, a t...

InterCement Participacoes SA files for Preliminary Injunction

17 July 2024, Published under Cement News

InterCement Participações SA and its subsidiary, InterCement Brasil SA, and its subsidiaries in the Netherlands and Spain, and its controlling shareholder, Mover Participações SA, have filed for a protective injunction (Preliminary Injunction) in Brazil in support of a court-supervised interim collective mediation process with its principal financial creditors. The company and affiliates referred to the above Preliminary Injunction to permit a stable negotiating environment in the mediati...

Cemex US in JV with Couch Aggregates and Premier Holdings

17 July 2024, Published under Cement News

Cemex has announced a joint venture agreement with sand and gravel supplier Couch Aggregates and marine bulk product distributor Premier Holdings. This agreement forms part of Cemex's ongoing strategy to accelerate growth in the US and expand its aggregates business.  According to Cemex, the joint venture will strengthen its aggregate reserves with the production, distribution and sale of sand, gravel and limestone in the Mid-South, increasing its presence and providing better and fast...

Cemex supplies NASA bridge project

16 July 2024, Published under Cement News

Cemex is supplying concrete for the rebuilding of the NASA Causeway Bridge, which will enhance accessibility along this corridor for transporting rockets to the Kennedy Space Center. The NASA Causeway, originally consisting of twin bascule bridges built in 1964, is being replaced with new twin high-level bridges that will facilitate improved movement for oversized vehicles to launch sites. Cemex is providing over 60,000 cubic yards of high-strength concrete for this project.  “We are p...