Burundi: Dangote's next stop?
Dangote Cement Zambia’s CEO, Vipul Agrawal, has assured the Burundi government that its company will not only help to address the scarcity of cement in the country in the short ...
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Cementa's application for a short mining permit continues
Cementa ( HeidelbergCement group ) submitted its application for a shorter mining permit of four years to the Land and Environment Court in April this year. Authorities, associa...
Holcim El Salvador starts Plants of Tomorrow technology at Maya plant
Holcim El Salvador has been celebrating the opening of its state-of-the-art Maya cement plant. The Maya plant upgrade is part of the group’s 'Plants of Tomorrow' programme, one ...
Argentine market expands 15% in June
Argentina’s cement demand increased by 14.8 per cent YoY and one per cent MoM to 1,109,755t, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. With no cement imports into Arg...
US$3.2m grant to support algae-grown cement
A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder, USA, has received a US$3.2m grant from the US Department of Energy to support the development of algae-grown cem...
Colombian cement market expands 35% in May
Grey cement dispatches in Colombia advance by 35.2 per cent to 1.104Mt in May 2022 from 0.816Mt in May 2021, according to the country’s statistics office, DANE. When compared wi...
CalPortland acquires Redding cement plant
CalPortland has purchased the Redding cement plant and other assets from Martin Marietta Materials Inc. In addition to the Redding cement plant in northern California, the asset...
UltraTech Cement stalls on plant purchase
UltraTech Cement has reportedly done a U-turn on its agreement to purchase a cement plant from Jaiprakash Associates. The 3Mta plant formed part of UltraTech's acquisition of si...
CIMERWA posts 6M revenues of RWF44bn
CIMERWA Plc ( PPC Group ) has announced a RWF5.2bn (US$5m) net profit in the six months for the period ended 31 March 2022 with total revenue of RWF44bn, indicating a 45 per cen...
UltraTech Cement pays for Russian coal shipment in yuan
UltraTech Cement has reportedly paid for a shipment of Russian coal in Chinese yuan, raising questions over whether this will now become the norm. The cement producer is importi...