South Africa: PPC names new CEO
PPC has announced the appointment of Darryll Castle as executive director and CEO, effective 12 January 2015. PPC's former chief executive Ketso Gordhan resigned in September ...
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Dangote reverses price cut
Just over a month after initiating a dramatic price cut, Dangote Cement has raised prices again in Nigeria. The price of 42.5 grade cement has reportedly increased from NGN1...
Gebr Pfeiffer to supply raw mill to new Itacamba cement plant
Itacamba Cemento SA has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer Inc the contract for a raw mill which will be installed at the cement producer's new 2000tpd cement plant in the Bolivian municipa...
US Jan-October shipments – preliminary data
Portland and blended cement shipments in the US and Puerto Rico reached 75.8Mt in the first 10 months of the year, preliminary figures from the US Geological Survey show. Of th...
Peru's Gloria Group acquires control of Soboce, Bolivia
Peruvian conglomerate Gloria Group has acquired an outstanding 51.35 per cent stake in Bolivia's largest cement producer Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento (Soboce) for US$300m. Gl...
UK: Cemex restarts production at flood-hit Ferriby works
Production has started at Cemex UK's South Ferriby cement plant after significant work by its 150 workforce and over 400 contractors during the past year, following the floodin...
HeidelbergCement reopens Ukraine factory
HeidelbergCement has reopened its 1.8Mta plant in eastern Ukraine a month after closing it due to pro-Russian rebels in the regions wanting to impose their own agenda on the pr...
Peru: November dispatches up 3.6%
Peru’s November cement dispatches remained stable MoM at 928,981t, according to Asocem, the country’s cement association. However, YoY figures show a 3.6 per cent rise. Product...
Pakistan producers bring prices down
Pakistan cement producers have reduced prices by PKR5-23/bag, passing on the cut in the prices of petroleum products and coal, according to a recent market survey. Bestway Ce...
Gambia: Siwertell road mobile unloader starts commercial operation
In September this year Siwertell, part of Cargotec, received and delivered an order for a road mobile unloader for Jah Multi Industrial Ltd, based in Banjul, Gambia. Following ...
Dangote expects first cement from new Cameroon works in January
The first bagged output from Dangote Cement’s Douala plant in Cameroon is expected to reach the market in the first week of January 2015, according project director Baba Abdull...
Angola to ban cement imports in 2015
Angola has banned the import of cement in 2015 with the country having achieved self-sufficiency in terms of cement production but has set a quota of 150,000t for three outer-l...
Siemens surpasses motor milestone with UltraTech order
Siemens Limited announced that it has surpassed a key milestone in manufacturing and delivering International Efficiency (IE) class industrial motors by handing the 100,000th m...
Suez Cement to invest in conversion to coal
Suez Cement, Italcementi’s Egyptian unit, said on Tuesday it planned to spend EGP600m (US$84m) in 2015 on equipping two factories to run on coal. CEO Bruno Carre said in a st...
Sibirsky unit receives clearance to increase Iskitimtsement stake
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has allowed Sibirsky Cement unit Topkinsky Cement to increase its stake in Iskitimtsement to 49.9 per cent from 24.97 per cent, Sibirsky C...
Sludge dispatched to Ariyalur plants for use as raw material
The Pollution Control Board of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has dispatched 20,000t of sludge generated by textile units in the SIPCOT Industrial Estate in Perundurai to cemen...
EU clears Lafarge and Holcim merger, subject to asset disposals
Lafarge and Holcim have received clearance from the European Commission (EC) for their proposed tie-up, marking a key milestone in the merger process. The decision is condition...
Guyana’s first integrated plant officially opened
Caricom Cement Company Inc has officially opened the first cement plant in Guyana in the presence of Prime Minister Samuel Hinds. The plant, situated in Everton, East Bank Ber...
Dominican Republic full-year sales seen rising 18% YoY
Cement sales in the Dominican Republic are forecast to see a double digit rise in 2014 to 3.6Mt, local association ADOCEM said on Friday. "Compared with the 3Mt consumed in ...
Nepal: Sarbottam Cement launches commercial operations
Sarbottam Cement, a newcomer to the Nepalese cement industry, has started commercial operations from its new greenfield plant. The project is promoted by local company Saurabh...
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