1Q15 Swiss dispatches down 16%
Domestic deliveries by the Swiss cement industry fell 16 per cent in 1Q15 as the construction industry experiences a cooldown, according to cement association Cemsuisse. Dispat...
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VietinBank to finance Tuyen Quang plant
Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade, or VietinBank (CTG) on has signed an agreement with Tan Quang Cement JSC to finance the latter’s cement plant in the...
Russia: Gornozavodsktsement to raise output
Gornozavodsktsement, based in the Volga region of Russia, plans to produce 1.55Mt of cement worth RUB4.49bn (EUR74.01m) in 2015). The company, which has a capacity of 2.2Mta, p...
SCG hosts groundbreaking ceremony for Laos cement plant project
SCG has hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Khammouane cement plant, its first cement plant in Laos. Present at the ceremony were Pichit Maipoom, Presiden...
US January shipments - preliminary data
Portland and blended cement shipments in the US and Puerto Rico in January 2015 were 5.355Mt, preliminary data* from the US Geological Survey shows. Of the total shipments, do...
Lafarge Zambia to kickstart expansion project in 2H15
Lafarge Zambia will begin work on a EUR200m expansion project in the second half of this year, Emmanuel Rigaux, chief executive of the Lafarge unit, said last week. The work wi...
Saudi: Yanbu first-quarter net profit edges ahead
Yanbu Cement Company posted a net profit of SAR207m (US$55.2m) in the three months to 31 March 2015, up one per cent from SAR205m a year earlier, the Saudi-based company said i...
SITA UK rebrands as SUEZ environnement
SITA UK, the UK-based recycling and waste management subsidiary of the global SUEZ environnement Group, will today join the rest of the group in uniting under a single name. S...
APCMA appeals to government to save local industry from smuggling
Pakistan's cement industry has made an appeal to government to put an end ot the alleged smuggling of Iranian cement into the country. The All Pakistan Cement Manufactures As...
Fitch reaffirms Votorantim Cimentos ratings
Fitch Ratings reaffirmed Votorantim Cimentos’ BBB rating and changed the company’s outlook from negative to stable. “Fitch’s decision took into consideration the financial d...
FCB TSV™ Classifier for Lafarge Ain Sokhna plant
Fives will supply a new high-efficiency separator for the Lafarge Cement Egypt petcoke grinding unit in the frame of its conversion from open to close circuit by Imsat (Romania...
Cemex to bring forward Caracolito expansion, Colombia
Cemex is bringing forward the expansion of Caracolito plant in Colombia, the corporate affairs vice-president of the company’s Mexican division has said. Daniel Suarez told l...
Expected second-quarter pick-up in Indian demand
Indian cement demand is expected to see a revival over the July-September quarter on the back of an increase in infrastructure spending. Consumption continued to remain tepid...
Semen Indonesia studying feasibility of new West Java plant
Semen Indonesia is carrying out a feasibility study for a new production facility in West Java, Investor Daily reported, quoting the company's business development and strategy...
ACCIONA Energía wins IADB award for Cemex Eurus wind farm project
ACCIONA Energía has won the Infraestructura 360º prize awarded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) for the sustainability of its infrastructure projects implemented i...
Asia Cement in renewable energy schools project, Thailand
Asia Cement, part of the Italcementi Group, has initiated the "25 Renewable Energy Schools Project" as part of the Thai cement producers corporate social responsibility, enviro...
Hrazdan cement plant faces closure
Hrazdan cement plant, Armenia, has an outstanding debt of AMD509m (USD1.08m) owed to the tax authorities and faces closure, according to plant manager Naira Martirosyan. Over ...
LH merger: Galchev demands improved terms
Russian billionaire, Filaret Galchev, who holds 10.8 per cent of Holcim through Eurocement holding, is demanding a renegotiation of the deal by Holcim and Lafarge to create the...
HeidelbergCement turned down merger with Holcim
HeidelbergCement turned down a merger with Holcim, following discussions in late 2013 between Holcim chairman Rolf Soiron and HeidelbergCement’s biggest shareholder, Ludwig Mer...
India: Rashmi Group to invest USD24m in new plant
Rashmi Group (India) intends to invest INR1.5bn (USD24m) to increase cement capacity at its 0.2Mta Jhargram grinding plant in West Bengal. The company is increasing its invest...
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