Colombian cement market contracts 76% in April
Dispatches of grey cement in Colombia declined 75.6 per cent to 241,900t in April 2020 from 991,100t in April 2019, according to the national statistics office, DANE. Consumptio...
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Canadian Cement Association and producers call on President to up infrastructure spending
Canada's cement companies and the Cement Association of Canada (CAC) have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as well as federal ministers to plead for federal government t...
Dominican cement demand up 7% in 2019
The Dominican cement market expanded 7.2 per cent YoY to 4.7Mt in 2019. Consumption in 2018 reached 4.3Mta, according to the country’s cement association, Adocem. Output by Domi...
APMC's Rawang plant to close for upgrade programme
Associated Pan Malaysia Cement (APMC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malayan Cement, reportedly released the majority of its employees a few weeks ago, according to The Edge. Fur...
Holcim Philippines resumes operations
Holcim Philippines Inc has restarted manufacturing and logistics operations with stronger health and safety controls at all its sites nationwide, after pausing cement production...
Tokyo Cement Co (Lanka) Plc sees 23% fall in turnover in 4QFY20
Tokyo Cement Co (Lanka) PLC said the group recorded LKR8.4bn (US$45.1m) turnover for the 4QFY20, which represents a 23 per cent reduction when compared to 4QFY19. The company re...
Vietnamese producers faced falling sales in April
Vietnam’s cement market contracted 11 per cent YoY and 13 per cent MoM as domestic cement sales reached 5,664,973t in April 2020, according to the latest data from the Vietnam N...
Birla Corp posts 52% rise in net profit
India’s Birla Corp has posted a 52 per cent YoY surge in net profit to INR1.95bn (US$25.76m) in the quarter ending 31 March 2020, while total income was down 9.4 per cent to INR...
UltraTech Cement Ltd records net sales of INR105.8bn in 4QFY19-20
UltraTech Cement Ltd (Aditya Birla Group) announced its financial results for the 4Q and full year ended 31 March 2020. 4QFY19-20 Consolidated net sales reached INR105.8bn (US$1...
Cement consumption in Spain hits record low in April
Spain saw cement consumption down 50 per cent YoY in April 2020 to less than 0.6Mt, according to the country’s cement association, Oficemen. The decline in demand has been attri...