Iranian cement consumption sees 16% rise in August
Iran’s cement market expanded by 15.9 per cent YoY to 5.77Mt in August 2023 from 4.98Mt in August 2022, according to the Iranian Cement Association. Cement production increased ...
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City Cement sets up AF joint venture
Saudi Arabia-based City Cement Co has announced that its subsidiary Green Solutions for Environmental Services has set up a joint venture to produce alternative fuel from waste,...
CEMEX supplies Vertua to Khalifa Port expansion
CEMEX will provide over 200,000m 3 of Vertua lower-carbon concrete for the development of the topside infrastructure for the expansion of the Khalifa Port in the UAE, one of the...
Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies to build green plants in Saudi Arabia
Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies (HGCT) has signed a 22-year exclusive licensing agreement with Saudi-based Shurfah Group that will see the construction of several green cemen...
Southern Province Cement posts net profit of SAR68m in 2Q23
In the January-June 2023 period, Southern Province Cement logged net profits after zakat and tax valued at SAR68m (US$18.1m) down 54.6 per cent YoY from SAR150m. Revenues declin...
Hail Cement's posts net profits of SAR24.5m
In the 1H23 Hail Cement recovered net profits after zakat and tax valued at SAR24.48m (US$6.53m), compared to net losses of SAR13.72m during the same period a year earlier. Reve...
Kuwait cement factory has fire quickly contained
Kuwait Fire Force (KFF) says six teams were able to put out a fire that broke out in a cement and manufacturing paint factory in Shuaiba Industrial area, Kuwait. A report was re...
Iran's cement market expands by 32% in July
Iranian cement consumption increased by 32.2 per cent to 7.09Mt in July 2023 when compared with July 2022, according to the Iranian Cement Association. Domestic cement productio...
Dubai laboratory uses AI robots to speed up cement testing
Dubai Central Laboratory is deploying artificial intelligence (AI) robots to speed up the testing of building materials. The robots use x-rays to carry out chemical analysis of ...
Sinai Cement cuts consolidated loss by 22% YoY in 1H23
Sinai Cement Co posted a 22.12 per cent YoY drop in consolidated net loss attributable to the holding company for the 1H23, according to the consolidated financial income statem...