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, 2.743Mt w...
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Loma Negra reports drop in 2Q net revenue due to constrained pricing
Loma Negra reported net sales revenues of ARS174.511bn (US$149m) in the second quarter of 2025, representing a YoY fall of eight per cent as the top line of the company’s cement...
Argentinian cement demand slips 3% in July
Argentina’s cement market contracted by 2.8 per cent YoY but expanded by 9.6 per cent MoM to 887,530t in July 2025 from 913,317t in July 2024 and 809,840t in June 2025, accordin...
Chile's Cementos Bio Bio poised for European takeover
The board of Cementos Bio Bio ( CBB) says that its main shareholders – Inversiones Cementeras Ltda, Inversiones La Tirana Ltda, Normex SA, Inversiones Toledo SA, Tralcan SA and ...
Votorantim Cimentos announces BRL330m investment to expand Cuiabá and Nobres
Votorantim Cimentos has announced plans to invest BRL330m (US$60m) to expand and modernise its Nobres and Cuiabá plants in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The company will increase cement ...
Cement production in Venezuela grows 14% in 1H25
The cement industry in Venezuela increased its output by 14 per cent in the first half of 2025 when compared with the equivalent period of the previous year, reports AVN. The ne...
UNICON signs AI truck optimisation agreement with INFORM
The agreement will result in INFORM bringing its expertise in AI and operations research to UNICON’s logistics challenges. It will improve the performance, responsiveness and su...
Colombian cement market sees 2% growth in June
Cement dispatches in Colombia saw a 1.8 per cent YoY uptick to 0.96Mt in June 2025 from 0.943Mt in the year-ago period, according to the country's statistics office, DANE. Dispa...
Paraguay's INC increases sales by 28%
Paraguay-based Industria Nacional de Cemento (INC) delivered 9.9m bags of cement in the July 2024-June 2025 period, showing 28 per cent growth when compared with the equivalent ...
Molins reports 9% decrease in 1H net profit
Molins posted a revenue of EUR659m (US$754.4m) for the first half of 2025, down five per cent YoY as takings were affected by the depreciation of the Mexican and Argentinian cur...