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Supreme Court exempts cement industry from petcoke import ban

01 August 2018, Published under Cement News

India’s Supreme Court has finalised a ban on petcoke imports with exemptions for some key industrial users, including the cement sector. In a ruling released this weekend, the court agreed to put into place recommendations from the court-appointed Environment Pollution Prevention & Control Authority (EPCA) to limit imports only to those industries using coke as a feedstock or in the manufacturing process, not as a fuel. The EPCA had listed those industries as cement, lime kilns, calcium c...

Pakistan: Fecto Cement appeals mining ban

20 October 2016, Published under Cement News

Fecto Cement has requested the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to allow it to carry out stone crushing activities in the Margalla Hills, which has been listed as a national park since 1980. The cement manufacturer asked the court to declare the lease cancellation letters issued by the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration and the Capital Development Authority (CDA) null and void. The ICT issued a mining lease to Fecto Cement in 2013 allowing it to carry out stone crushing activities...