Brazil: Votorantim improves co-processing rates
Votorantim Cimentos’ has invested BRL12m (US$3.14m) in a co-processing project for its Cuiabá cement plant, Mato Grosso. The facility is now able to process waste materials such...
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Brazil sees double-digit drop in September sales
Brazil’s September cement sales fell by 14.7 per cent YoY to 5.5Mt, according to a summary of preliminary industry data and market estimates published by Sindicato Nacional da I...
Votorantim studies Sobral waste fuel option, Brazil
Currently developing its second factory in Sobral, Votorantim Cimentos is studying the possibility of using solid waste as fuel in a new venture in the city. The idea was presen...
Brazil Jan-August sales down 6.8% YoY
Brazilian sales over the first eight months of this year fell 6.8 per cent YoY to 43.7Mt compared to the 46.9Mt sold in 2014, according to preliminary data and market estimates ...
Brazil and beyond Premium
Recent years have seen the internationalisation of Brazil’s foremost cement company as Votorantim Cimentos expanded through organic growth and well-planned acquisitions. Maintai...
Sodep implements mine control system for LH Cantagalo
In July 2015, Sodep started the implementation of Minetrack at the LafargeHolcim Cantagalo works in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Technical delivery was due in August. Sodep explains ...
Brazil: Cade issues fines of US$934m
Brazil's antitrust watchdog, Cade, has ordered six cement makers named in a price-rigging case to pay a combined BRL3.1bn (US$934m) in fines within a month in a landmark decisio...
Brazil: Semapa acquires full control of Supremo Cimentos
Semapa has concluded the acquisition of full control of Supremo Cimentos, a Brazilian company in which it already held a 50 per cent stake. The purchase of the 50 per cent of Su...
Camargo Correa reportedly looking to sell stake in InterCement
Camargo Correa is looking to sell a stake in cement maker InterCement for up to BRL3.6bn (US$1.2bn) to make new overseas investments, according to a report in Brazilian daily ne...
Secil 1Q15 boosted by Angola operations
Semapa, the Portuguese holding company that controls Secil, said turnover in its Cement and Derivatives Business unit for the first quarter of 2015 increased by 2.4 per cent YoY...