Ghorahai works halts production
Nepal-based producer Ghorahai Cement Industry (GCI) has halted output at its cement plant in the Dang district as protests by tipper operators disrupt the flow of production. T...
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FLSmidth sells Cembrit Holding A/S
FLSmidth has signed an agreement with a company in the Solix Group AB to sell all shares in Cembrit Holding A/S, one of the leading distributors and manufacturers of fibre-ceme...
Boldrocchi completes new de-dusting project in Egypt
Boldrocchi Ecologia has successfully completed commissioning and start-up of new air pollution control equipment for Line 1 of Suez Cement's Sokhna plant in Egypt. Mechanical...
Steppe Cement preliminary full-year update
Kazakhstan-based producer Steppe Cement Ltd achieved a cement sales volume of 1.61Mt in 2014, up 18 per cent on the over the 1.3Mt in the previous year. Revenue for the year e...
PCA: construction recovery continues to expand
Construction recovery in the US continues to expand and all regions are expected to participate in 2015, according to the PCA State Construction and Cement Forecast report, 201...
Babcock awarded fleet management contract by Lafarge Tarmac
Lafarge Tarmac has awarded Babcock International Group a GBP41m (EUR52.4m) five-year contract (with a five-year extension option) to provide a fleet-managed service for its Hea...
Indonesia: Semen Bosowa sets aside US$500m for expansion
Semen Bosowa is setting aside US$500m this year to expand capacity in anticipation of a pick-up in demand across the country. The company is building cement plants in Maros (S...
UltraTech to not bid for Lafarge/Holcim assets
UltraTech has pulled out of the race to buy cement assets up for sale as Lafarge and Holcim’s proposed merger, the Indian cement major confirmed to local press. An UltraTec...
Egypt: gas supplies to cement plants replaced by fuel oil
Egypt’s decreased gas output is further squeezing fuel supplies to the country’s cement factories. The Egyptian Gas Holding Co (EGAS) has halted gas supplies to cement plants a...
Indonesia: 2014 cement sales fall short of expectations
Indonesian cement sales fell short of expectations last year, increasing by 3.6 per cent YoY to 59.9Mt, according to the latest data from the Indonesia Cement Association (ASI)...
New Guinea-Bissau grinding plant seeks IFC loan
HeidelbergCement subsidiary Scancem, in partnership with Maxime Cardoz, a private investor from Senegal, has applied to the IFC for a loan of EUR11m to help finance Guinea-Biss...
Mixed performance for Iranian exports
Iran cement exports fell 8.5 per cent YoY in the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar, but a rise in clinker shipments boosted the overall total. During the fir...
Yanbu Cement 4Q net earnings up 20.63%
Saudi producer Yanbu Cement Co posted SAR193m (US$51.4m) net earnings for the fourth quarter of 2014, rising 20.63 per cent from SAR160m in 4Q13 and 18.4 per cent from SAR163m ...
Thailand: TPI Polene bond issue
Thai-based cement producer TPI Polene says it will issue two tranches of THB6bn (US$182.5m) worth of debentures. Prachai Leophairatana, chief executive of TPI, said the first...
Polish output up 6.8% YoY
Full year Polish cement production increased 6.8 per cent YoY in 2014 to 15.4Mt, according to the country's cement association. Cement production edged up by 1.9 per cent Yo...
US Jan-Oct shipments up eight per cent YoY
Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico for the January-October 2014 period were 75.8Mt, an increase of eight per cent YoY, latest d...
Conch places new order with Claudius Peters, Myanmar
Conch has awarded Claudius Peters an order for the supply of an ETA cooler to be installed in Myanmar. This new order takes the total number of Claudius Peters ETA coolers ord...
Dyckerhoff and N+P extend supply agreement
N+P is to extend its cooperation with Dyckerhoff AG by securing a new order for the delivery of high-quality Subcoal® pellets. Subcoal is produced at the Qlyte facility in De...
Sançim Cimento acquired by Askale Çimento.
Turkish cement producer Sançim Cimento (Sançim) has been acquired by Askale Çimento, according to local news reports. The acquisition follows the recently aborted acquisition o...
Dominican Republic sales up 18% YoY
The Dominican Republic market expanded by 18 per cent in 2014, surpassing the 16 per cent achieved the year before despite significant over capacity prevailing. Carlos E Gonz...
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