Peru: Pacasmayo Piura to come online in July 2015
Cementos Pacasmayo has invested US$190m in its new Piura plant, Peru, and civil works have been almost completed. “The new plant is a project that we have started more than ...
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Three potential candidates for PPC chief executive role
PPC is considering Darryll Castle as one of three candidates to become CEO of South Africa's biggest cement maker, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Castle, f...
Cemex UK takes delivery of new cement mixer fleet
Cemex has taken delivery of a fleet of new cement mixers after a ground-breaking deal with a leading vehicle solutions firm. The company ordered 11 of the specialist 26t vehic...
South Africa: PPC receives merger offer from AfriSam
South Africa’s leading cement producer, PPC, has received a merger offer from local rival AfriSam that would create a dominant player in the country. “The Board is considerin...
Devnya wins “Building of the Year 2014” award
Italcementi’s modernisation of the Devyna Cement plant, undertaken by CBMI Construction Co of China, has been awarded Bulgaria’s "Building of the Year 2014" award under the Ind...
Indonesian: expected sales rebound ahead
Indonesian cement demand growth is expected to slow in 2014 but sales are anticipated to rebound next year as new projects get underway. For full-year 2014 the Indonesian Ce...
Saudi: City Cement starts trail operations of Line 2
City Cement Company has started trial operations of a second production line, the Saudi-based producer said in a bourse filing. The company said the new production line will h...
Ash Grove announces new Chanute plant manager
Ash Grove Cement Company announced Alan C Finch as the new plant manager of its Chanute works in Kansas, USA, effective immediately. “We are pleased that Alan will assume the ...
UltraTech re-evaluating Brazil asset bid
Indian cement major UltraTech Cement is reportedly re-evaluating its decision to bid for the Brazilian assets put on the block by Holcim and Lafarge ahead of their planned merg...
ARM secures loan to finance expansion
ARM Cement has secured a KES4.5bn (US$50m) loan from CFC Stanbic Bank to finance its expansion plans. “The credit adds to our existing facilities and will be used in current...
Argos to not bid for Lafarge/Holcim Brazilian assets
Cementos Argos has decided not to not bid for the Brazilian assets that Lafarge and Holcim have put up for sale ahead of their planned merger. Colombia’s largest cement pro...
Vietnam: Vicem monthly sales up 3.5%
State-owned Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem) said it sold 1.92Mt of cement and clinker last month, an increase of 3.5 per cent from a year ago. Of the volume, 1.64...
HeidelbergCement honours International Quarry Life Award winners
The winners of HeidelbergCement’s International Quarry Life Award were yesterday honoured at an award ceremony held in Prague, Czech Republic. The Quarry Life Award was estab...
Saudi: Eastern Province in talks for new production line
Saudi-based Eastern Province Cement Co said in a bourse statement that the board, in a meeting held on 9 December, discussed the project of establishing a new production line, ...
Canada: new alternative fuels initiative introduced at Joliette cement plant
Holcim Canada and Van Houtte Coffee Services Inc, a subsidiary of Keurig Canada Inc, have introduced a new service to recover the energy content of used K-Cup® packs from insti...
Lafarge in Ashaka buy-out offer
Lafarge Africa has offered to buy out minority shareholders in Ashaka Cement Plc. The move follows the merger Lafarge Africa’s Nigerian and South Africa businesses, which recei...
Adelaide Brighton confirms contract renewal
Adelaide Brighton announced that it has extended a supply agreement to a major cement customer in South Australia. The current agreement which expires at the end of December 20...
Nepalese factory gets set to launch commercial production
Arghakhanchi Cement is set to start commercial production from its greenfield works next week. The cement factory has a clinker and cement capacity of 1200tpd and 1000tpd, r...
Semen Indonesia seeks loan for Aceh plant construction
PT Semen Indonesia is seeking loans worth IDR2.2-3.1trn (US$178m-251m) to build a new cement factory in Aceh province, at the northern end of Sumatra, Kontan newspaper reported...
US September shipments up 14% YoY
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico during September 2014 were 9Mt, up by nearly 14 per cent compared to the same month of the previous yea...
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