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MPA response to government 2050 Carbon Reduction Roadmap for the cement sector
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) responded to the publication of the Government’s 2050 carbon reduction roadmap for the UK cement sector. The report, commissioned by the...
Egypt: Italcementi’s energy diversification focus
Italcementi is currently focussing on energy source diversification at its Egyptian facilities, CEO Carlo Pesenti told Daily News Egypt. Mr Pesenti said the company will be rel...
Terex completes Cemex refurbishment and upgrade of a Demag crane system
Terex Material Handling’s Demag Service team has completed a major refurbishment and upgrade of a Demag crane system at the Cemex cement production facility in Rugby. The plant...
China Tianrui Group Cement profit inches up
China Tianrui Group Cement Co posted a net profit of CNY565m (US$91m) in the full year ended 31 December 2014, climbing 1.07 per cent from a year earlier. Basic earnings per sh...
Loesche installation at Elmadag works, Turkey
Loesche is now starting to install a 260tph raw meal mill at Bastas Baskent Cimento’s Elmadag cement works in Turkey, after a delivery time of just 10 months. Bastas Baskent Ci...
Production in construction up by 1.9% in euro area
In January 2015 seasonally-adjusted production in the construction sector grew by 1.9 per cent in the euro area and by one per cent in the EUR28 compared with December 2014, ac...
Southern Province Cement starts trial operations of new line
Southern Province Cement (SPC) on Monday launched trial operations of a third production line at its plant in Tuhama, Saudi Arabia, the company said in a bourse filing. Withou...
Fecto Cement refutes mining lease cancellation claims
Fecto Cement Ltd has informed Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) that its factory in Sangjani, Pakistan, is operating under normal conditions and dispatches are being carried out as ...
Hetauda reports accumulated loss of US$6.42m at end-2014
Nepal-based Hetauda Cement Industries Ltd (HCIL) reported an accumulated loss of US$6.42m at the end of its 2014 financial year. "We faced a loss of US$692,829 in 2011-12 and...
Sabanci cement unit seeks acquisition opportunities
Turkey-based Sabanci Holding's cement business expects its sales to rise 10-15 per cent this year after posting a 16 per cent increase to TRL2.5bn (US$980m) in 2014, the cement...
Anhui Conch full-year profit rises 17%
Anhui Conch Cement Co's net profit rose 17 per cent in 2014 but warned that the cement sector in its home market of China was under pressure as the economy slowed. The company...
Vietnam Jan-Feb sales reach 9Mt
Vietnam sold 9.01Mt of cement and clinker in the first two months of this year, meeting 12.5 per cent of the whole-year target, according to figures from the country's Ministry...
Honduras: cement price up HNL10.35 in past year
A 42.5kg bag of cement in Honduras has seen its price rise by HNL10.35 (US$0.48) in the past 12 months as the ex-works price was dollarised. In February 2014, the Ministry o...
Cemex launches new IUCN book in conservation series
Cemex yesterday announced the launch of a new book 'The IUCN Red List: 50 Years of Conservation' in the UK. This book is the latest in Cemex’s conservation book series, an init...
Shadow rail minister visits Lafarge Tarmac Tunstead quarry, UK
Lilian Greenwood MP, Shadow Minister for Railways, visited Lafarge Tarmac’s Tunstead aggregates, cement and lime operations this week to discuss rail capacity and ideas to impr...
Ha Tien 1 Cement seeks Indonesian coal import approval
Vietnamese producer Ha Tien 1 Cement JSC (HT1) is seeking government approval to import coal from Indonesia for cement production as the market price has fallen sharply along w...
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) reports rise in 3Q volumes
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd announced its financial results for the quarter ended 31 December 2014, reporting a YoY increase in volumes and income. Income rose to INR7.94bn fr...
Argentina’s February cement deliveries up 13% YoY
Total cement dispatches (including exports) from Argentina’s cement producers fell five per cent MoM in February, but rose 11.8 per cent YoY to 897,299t, according to cement as...
Fitch downgrades Cemento Tupi's ratings
Fitch Ratings has downgraded Cimento Tupi SA's (Tupi) ratings as follows: foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'CCC' from 'B-'; Local currency IDR to 'CCC' from 'B-'...
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