Gebr Pfeiffer SE wins Saudi order for cement VRM
Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Bldg Materials Industry Co Ltd, headquartered in China, placed an order with Gebr Pfeiffer SE for the supply of an MPS 3070 BC cement mil...
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Ashaka 1Q pretax profit down 59%, Nigeria
Nigeria's Ashaka Cement first-quarter pretax profit fell 58.8 per cent to NGN1.16bn (US$5.8m) from a year ago, the company said on Monday. The decline was partly attributed to ...
Oman Cement awards FLSmidth contract for pollution control equipment
Oman Cement Co has awarded a US$11.3mn contract for the upgrade of pollution control equipment to FLSmidth, according to local press reports. In a filing with the Muscat Secur...
Lafarge Mahaweli Cement on track with housing programme, Sri Lanka
Lafarge Mahaweli Cement is on schedule with its ‘Savi Piyasa’ housing programme and has now partnered with nine leading brands in the construction sector and two commercial ban...
Cementir advances in Denmark and Sweden
Cementir's first quarter turnover eased by 0.9 per cent to EUR204.7m and the EBITDA came off by 1.6 per cent to EUR24.2m, primarily reflecting difficult market conditions in Tu...
Holcim files Lafarge stock exchange offer
Holcim Ltd said on Monday it has filed with the French financial market regulator details of its proposed share exchange with Lafarge. The offer allows Lafarge shareholders t...
Indonesian consumption contracts in April
Following a disappointing performance over the first three months of this year, there's still no recovery in sight for Indonesian cement consumption as latest figures show dema...
Ash Grove Cement names Louisville plant AGem winner
Ash Grove Cement Company’s Louisville (NE) plant won top honours in the annual Ash Grove Energy Management (AGem) Outstanding Plant of the Year competition. “Ash Grove created...
Bangladesh, Indonesia and Taiwan remain Vietnam's top importers
Bangladesh, Indonesia and Taiwan remained among the largest importers of Vietnamese clinker and cement in the first quarter of this year, according to the Vietnamese Ministry o...
CIMERWA unveils new corporate identity, Rwanda
Rwanda's largest cement producer, CIMERWA, last week unveiled its new corporate identity and product packaging ahead of the completion of its expansion project later this year....
Buzzi improves in the USA & central Europe
Buzzi Unicem's first-quarter turnover increased by 3.4 per cent to EUR513.39m and the EBITDA went from a EUR10.26m to EUR27.15m. The loss at the trading level was reduced by 48...
Savanna looks to mine limestone in forest reserve, Ghana
Savanna Cement Co Ltd has applied to the country’s authorities to be granted a 49.98km 2 concession in the Yakombo Forest Reserve, Central Gonja District, Ghana, to mine limes...
Advance in Argentine April cement consumption
In April 2015 Argentine market demand expanded by eight per cent MoM while compared to April 2014, the figure rose by 16.7 per cent to 1,045,369t, according to the country’s ce...
Côte d’Ivoire to import 300,000t of cement
Due to a shortage in the supply of cement, Côte d’Ivoire will import 300,000t of cement. “The government has decided to conduct an emergency operation for the import of 300,000...
MagneGas® fuel order placed for Florida cement works, USA
MagneGas Corporation announced today that a major cement company in the US has approved MagneGas® fuel to replace acetylene and has placed its first order for a location in Flo...
Holcim shareholders back all motions for proposed merger
Lafarge and Holcim have today successfully secured support from Holcim shareholders for their proposed merger and completed one of the final key steps on their way to creating ...
Votorantim Cimentos issues EUR500m in European bonds
Votorantim Cimentos SA announces the issuance of its Euro-denominated bond, representing the first issuance since November 2014 by a Brazilian company in the international capi...
Italcementi advances in India and Morocco
Italcementi's first-quarter turnover improved by 5.1 per cent to EUR980.5m while the running EBITDA eased 0.4 per cent to EUR95.2m. The trading loss was increased by 13 per cen...
Titan achieves better results in USA and Greece
Titan's first-quarter turnover improved 12.7 per cent to EUR283.8m and EBITDA declined by 23.7 per cent to EUR23.2m. The company posted a pretax profit of EUR7.6m versus a loss...
Ash Grove Cement recognised by Wildlife Habitat Council, USA
Ash Grove Cement Company announced that two of its cement manufacturing plants received Wildlife Habitat Council certifications. The Midlothian (TX) cement manufacturing plan...
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