Vicat sees improved activity in May
France-based cement producer Vicat has provided an update of business levels in May, noting a marked improvement when compared with market performance in March and April. In Fra...
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Cement consumption in Vietnam slips 3% YoY in May
Vietnamese cement demand fell by three per cent YoY to 5,680,883t in May 2020, according to the country’s cement association, VNCA. Sales by VICEM saw a two per cent decline to ...
Bangladesh cement producers demand income tax withdrawal
Bangladesh’s cement manufacturers have urged the government to withdraw the advance income tax (AIT) and high customs duty levied on clinker imports in order to ensure the indus...
China's cement production rises 9% YoY in May
Cement production increased to 248.69Mt in May 2020, up 11.3 per cent from April and 8.6 per cent from the corresponding period last year, according to the South China Morning P...
INSEE ramping up output at Galle plant
INSEE Cement will be ramping up production at its Galle cement plant to support the local economy’s fast recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The company said in a statement tha...
JK Cement reports 4Q results and receives approval to raise INR2.5bn
India’s JK Cement has reported a 99.9 per cent decline in net profit to INR2.3m (US$30,194) in the final quarter of FY19-20, compared with INR1.5bn in the year-ago period. Net r...
Senegal sees contraction in cement sector
Cement exports from Senegal have fallen by 42.3 per cent MoM in March 2020 while domestic sales slipped by 0.5 per cent, according to ANSD, the national agency for statistics an...
Peru’s cement demand plummets by 69% in May
Cement consumption in Peru fell by 69.1 per cent YoY to 298,300t in May 2020, according to the country’s cement association, Asocem. Cement production fell by 70 per cent to 263...
Jan-May exports from Turkey up 37%
In the January-May 2020 cement and clinker exports from Turkey surged 37 per cent to 9.8Mt, according to the Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Association (TÇMB). Export revenues ad...
South Korean producers sign agreeement to reduce NOx emissions
South Korea’s nine cement producers have agreed to work with the Ministry of Environment to lower NO x emissions, according to The Korea Times. Representatives of companies incl...