Argentina’s cement market expands 8% in 8M25
Argentinian cement consumption slipped 0.4 per cent YoY and 0.2 per cent MoM to 886,079t in August 2025 from 889,908t in August 2024 and 887,586t in July 2025, according to the...
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Earnings down at Cementos Bio Bio as takeover deadline looms
Cementos Bio Bio (CBB) reported a sharp decline in earnings and revenues for 1H25, just one week before the close of a takeover bid by Belgian industrial minerals group Carme...
Bolivia’s cement market contracts 4% in June
Bolivian cement sales declined 3.7 per cent to 306,714t in June 2025 from 319,041t in June 2024, according to Bolivia’s statistics agency, INE. In the first half of 2025, ce...
Peruvian cement market expands 6% in July
Cement dispatches in Peru improved 5.8 per cent YoY to 1.083Mt in July 2025 from 1.024Mt in July 2024, according to the country’s cement association, ASOCEM. Of this total, 0.9...
Votorantim Cimentos advances decarbonisation in Brazil
Votorantim Cimentos ended 2024 with global emissions of 550kg of CO 2 /t of cementitious material produced, a decrease of 27.9 per cent compared to 1990, the baseline year set ...
Itambé Cement plant expands capacity to 3Mta
This week, Governor Carlos Massa Ratinho Junior attended the inauguration of a new kiln at the Itambé cement plant in Balsa Nova, in the Curitiba Metropolitan Region. The pro...
Argos achieves first simultaneous loading of three cement ships in Cartagena
Cement producer Argos , a subsidiary of Grupo Empresarial Argos, has achieved a milestone at its maritime terminal in Cartagena’s Zona Franca by loading three cement vessels s...
Holcim Colombia boosts waste-to-energy capacity at Nobsa plant
Holcim Colombia and its waste management arm, Geocycle, have completed a US$2m upgrade of their co-processing platform in Nobsa , Boyacá. The modernised system will enable ...
Votorantim reports revenue growth in 2Q25
Votorantim Cimentos reported higher revenue, profit, sales volumes and investments in the 2Q25, supported by positive pricing trends and growth across multiple regions. Co...
Brazil’s cement market expands 3% in July
Cement sales in Brazil edged up by 3.1 per cent YoY to 6.063Mt in July 2025 when compared with July 2024, when 5.881Mt were sold in the domestic market. Of this total, 2.74...