PCA cautions on proposed EPA ozone regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to further tighten ozone standards could result in the loss of more than 45,000 construction jobs each year, slow the natio...
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HeidelbergCement and BirdLife International renew partnership
HeidelbergCement and BirdLife International have signed an agreement to continue their partnership until 2017. The world’s largest aggregates producer and the NGO leader in nat...
Egypt: ACC to boost alternative fuels usage
Egypt-based Arabian Cement Co (ACC) is seeking to utilise alternative energy to increase its capacity utilisation rate to 100 per cent, the company’s CEO Jose Maria Magrina to...
Indonesian monthly consumption down 6.2%
Indonesian cement consumption during February 2015 fell by 6.2 per cent YoY to 4.2Mt, latest data from the Indonesia Cement Association (ASI) shows. For the first two months...
Peru cement sales fall 4.9% in Feb 2015
Peru’s cement market contracted by 4.9 per cent YoY as dispatches fell from 816,000t to 775,000t in February 2015, according to Asocem, the country’s cement association. In Jan...
Cherat’s first-half boosted by domestic deliveries
Cherat’s Cement’s domestic sales increased by 10 per cent during the first half of the current Pakistan fiscal boosted by strong construction activity. Total dispatches over th...
IDA to propose 12 licences in Upper Egypt
The Industrial Developmental Authority (IDA) is set to propose 12 new cement licences in several Upper Egypt governorates this year, according to its chairman. The IDA is also...
HeidelbergCement completes sale of North American and UK building products business
HeidelbergCement on Friday completed the sale of its North American (excluding Western Canada) and United Kingdom building products business (collectively “Hanson Building Prod...
Indian joint venture on the cards?
The Jaypee Group is in talks with HeidelbergCement and JSW Cement, to form a joint venture which will control the majority of its cement plants as part of an ongoing exercise t...
Holcim Board seek exchange ratio renegotiation for Lafarge-Holcim merger
Holcim has issued a statement on its Annual General Meeting and the Board of Directors' decision to renegotiate the exchange ratio for the Lafarge-Holcim tie-up. The Board of...
Attock Cement to remit US$24m Iraqi project
Attock Cement Pakistan Limited (ACPL), Pakistan, one of Pakistan’s largest cement manufacturers and exporters, has received government approval to remit US$24m as an equity inv...
Iranian cement and clinker exports reach 17.5Mt in 11 months
In the first 11 months of the Iranian calendar year (21 March 2014 – 19 February 2015), Iranian cement factories exported over 17.5Mt of cement and clinker to international mar...
India: Aditya Cement starts third line, builds grinding unit
UltraTech Cement Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that the company has commissioned its clinker plant of 2Mta at Aditya Cement Works, Shambhupura, Rajasthan. Th...
Asia will drive cement growth, says Italcementi chief executive
Italcementi Group foresees stronger growth of 2-3 per cent this year, with the key driver being Asia, backed by economic recoveries in the European Union and North America. Gi...
Bangladesh: MI Cement will package growth
MI Cement Factory Ltd plans to grow on the back of higher domestic cement demand. Bangladesh is expecting rapid development in terms of new public infrastructure, communication...
Bangladesh: cement factory collapses
The BBC has reported that a cement factory partially collapsed in Bangladesh killing eight people. The the compound is army-owned and the factory had been under construction w...
Loesche awarded SCG Cement order, Thailand
Loesche has been awarded a contract by SCG Cement to deliver an LM 56.3+3 C vertical roller mill for clinker grinding at the cement producer's plant in Ta Luang, Thailand. The...
Lafarge Zimbabwe revenue declines 11%
Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe recorded a 11 per cent decline in turnover to US$60.4m for the year ended 31 December due to a drop in volumes and prices. In the period under review ...
Vietnam: Nghi Son Cement Corp gets go-ahead for fly ash import
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister, Hoang Trung Hai, has agreed to allow Nghi Son Cement Corp to pilot the import of fly ash over the 2015-16 period. Under approval, Nghi Son Cem...
Dangote’s Zambian plant due to start operations by month-end
Dangote Cement’s Zambian cement plant is scheduled to start operations at the end of this month, group CEO, Aliko Dangote, has said. Speaking to journalists shortly after tour...
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