Pakistan cement exports see monthly gains
Pakistan's cement exports during April 2015 showed sequential gains but declined over the first 10 months of the current fiscal on an annual comparative basis, with shipments t...
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New orders for Cemengal in South America and MEA
Cemengal has signed new orders for conventional grinding stations and its Plug&Grind ® solution to undisclosed customers in the South America, and the Middle East and Africa (...
ThyssenKrupp opens new service centre in Chile
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions opened a new service centre in Antofagasta, Chile, on 13 May 2015 to offer maintenance and repair services for customers from the local mining...
Gansu Qilianshan to invest Kyrgyzstan project
Gansu Qilianshan Cement and 8th Metallurgical Corporation signed a memo with JBK on joint construction of a cement production line project in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. The three parti...
Holcim releases 2014 Corporate Sustainable Development Report
Holcim today released its 2014 Corporate Sustainable Development Report that outlines the Group’s economic, environmental and social performance and presents Holcim’s objective...
FLSmidth receives Vietnam cement plant order
FLSmidth has received an order worth approximately EUR100m (DKK750m) from the Vietnamese cement producer Xuan Than Group for the supply of a complete cement plant with a capaci...
Hope announces GBP1m wagon investment
Hope Construction Materials has announced a major investment in rail transportation from its flagship Derbyshire cement operation in the UK. The company is investing over GBP1...
Burnpur commences trial production of Jharkhand grinding unit
Burnpur Cement has commenced the trial production from its new grinding unit at Patratu in state of Jharkhand, India, on 23 May 2015. Fully-fledged production will start next m...
Steppe Cement announces retirement of non-executive chairman
Steppe Cement Ltd announced that Malcolm Brown will retire on 28 May 2015 as the non-executive chairman “due to health reasons” and he does not intend to stand for re-election ...
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines top Vietnamese importers in first four months
Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan remained among major importers of Vietnamese clinker and cement in the first four months of this year, the Vietnamese Ministry...
Quinn fined for 2014 breaching dust emissions
Quinn Cement Ltd has been fined EUR2000 plus costs after the company pleaded guilty to having previously failed to control dust emissions from its plant in Ballyconnell, Irelan...
APCMA calls for increased duty on imported cement
The chairman of the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) has suggested that the one per cent custom duty on the import of cement be increased to 25 per c...
Lafarge North America to build cement storage facility and terminal
Lafarge North America Inc is investing in a cement storage facility and terminal on a new rail spur on the east side of Williston, North Dakota, amidst growing demand in the Da...
Production in construction up by 0.8% in euro area
In March 2015, compared with February 2015, seasonally-adjusted production in the construction sector rose by 0.8 per cent in the euro area (EA19) and by 1.5 per cent in the EU...
TMEIC to supply MV drive systems for McInnis Cement, Canada
TMEIC announces an order from ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (USA) Inc to supply MV Drive Systems for McInnis Cement. The TMEIC Dura-Bilt5i MV series of medium-voltage drive...
Kerneos India breaks ground on AP calcium aluminate cement plant
Kerneos India held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 30,000tpa greenfield calcium aluminate cement plant in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh (AP). Segi P Idicula, mana...
Bosnia: TCK to distribute EUR8.3m as dividend
Bosnia-based Tvornica Cementa Kakanj (TCK) said its shareholders have approved distributing BAM16.2m (EUR8.3m) as dividend. The HeidelbergCement group company said in a statem...
China Tianrui Group Cement Co to issue CNY500m unsecured short term bills
China Tianrui Group Cement Co, a leading clinker and cement producer in Henan and Liaoning provinces, has announced that it will issue CNY500m (US$80.7m) unsecured short-term b...
Lafarge Malaysia first-quarter pretax profit rises, construction outlook 'positive'
Lafarge Malaysia Bhd's pretax profit for the first quarter to the end of March 2015 rose to MYR99.36m (US$27.6m) from MYR97.19m in the same quarter of last year. Revenue adva...
Waste-derived fuel solution commissioned for HCM
Saxlund International has collaborated with Hope Construction Materials (HCM) to install and commission a new waste-derived fuel solution for the UK-based cement producer. Lo...
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