Chilean cement market expands 4% in January
Chile’s cement demand increased 4.4 per cent to 346,463t in January 2021 when compared with January 2020, when demand reached 331,783t, according to CChC, the Chilean constructi...
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Cemento Melón expects to bring online Punta Arenas plant by June
Chile-based Cemento Melón expects to see its new US$30m Punta Arenas grinding plant to be commissioned by June 2021, reports La Prensa Austral. The plant is located 8.5km north ...
Melón and Enel Generación sign renewable energy contract
Chile-based Cemento Mélon has signed a contract with Enel Generación for the supply of clean and renewable energy in four of Mélon’s operations: the La Calera, Ventanas and Puer...
Chile’s cement dispatches down 7% in 2020
Chilean cement deliveries increased by 14 per cent YoY to 389,488t in November 2020 from 341,721t in the equivalent month in 2019. This was followed by a 7.7 per cent uptick in ...
Cbb makes 2025 growth plan
Chile-based Cbb looks forward to 2025 with optimism, said the company’s Corporate General Manager, Enrique Elsaca Hirmas, after a year that saw the impact of the coronavirus pan...
Peru cement prices among lowest in Latin America
Capeco, the Peruvian construction chamber, reported that the average retail price for grey cement in Peru is around US$6.22 per 42.5kg bag – one of the lowest in Latin America. ...
Unacem buys Cementos La Unión in Chile for US$23m
Peru-based Unión Andina de Cementos (Unacem) has signed a contract with Cementos La Unión and Aridos Jativa, and the Chile’s Inversiones Mel 20 Ltda for the purchase of the full...
Chile's cement demand up 16% in October
Cement consumption in Chile increased 16.2 per cent to 392,688t in October 2020 from 337,959t in the previous year, according to the country’s construction chamber, CChC. When c...
Chilean market contraction slows in 3Q
Chilean cement dispatches fell 13 per cent to 868,487t in July-September 2020 from 998,291t in the 3Q19, according to the country’s chamber of construction, CChC. The latest dat...
Briones sisters sell Bío Bío stake to Gloria Group
Anita and Loreto Briones Goich of ALB SpA have sold their entire 19 per cent stake in Cementos Bío Bío, the cement company founded by their father, Hernán Briones Gorostiaga in ...