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Cement industry and the COVID-19 crisis

Cement industry and the COVID-19 crisis

This week has seen growing action and concern from the construction and cement sectors on how best to fight off the coronavirus (COVID-19), which was declared a pandemic on 11 M...

Asia's need to embrace co-processing

Asia's need to embrace co-processing

As the Cemtech Asia 2019 Conference and Exhibition prepares to open in Bangkok next week, our weekly newsletter focusses on the opportunity for co-processing in Asia's cement se...

A time of reassessment for HeidelbergCement

A time of reassessment for HeidelbergCement

This week it was announced that HeidelbergCement would be selling its 51 per cent stake in the Lehigh White Cement Co LLC while the company also reported on its full-year and 4Q...

Vicem appoints new general director

Vicem appoints new general director

Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem) has appointed Bui Hong Minh general director. Mr Minh, 46, has held the position of deputy general director since 2013. Before that, ...

Lafarge Malaysia Bhd reports 2Q loss

Lafarge Malaysia Bhd reports 2Q loss

Lafarge Malaysia Bhd posted a net loss of MYR44.09m (US$10.3m) in its second quarter of 2017, compared to a net profit of MYR18.36m in the corresponding period amid weaker domes...

Challenging year for YTL's cement division

Challenging year for YTL's cement division

FY17 is proving to be a challenging year for YTL Corp’s cement business due to overcapacity and weak demand from the property segment, according to a report by Affin Hwang Inves...

Eagle posts flat 2Q earnings

Eagle posts flat 2Q earnings

Eagle Cement Corp of the Philippines reported a one per cent rise in earnings for the second quarter of this year as wet weather affected results.