Kenya: Bill Lay reappointed chairman of EAPCC
President Uhuru Kenyatta has reappointed Bill Lay as chairman of East African Portland Cement Company (EAPCC) for a three-year term. The Head of State, through the latest gaze...
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Indonesia: PT Conch South Kalimantan cement plant on-stream
PT Conch’s greenfield cement plant has come on-stream in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, with an installed capacity of 1.5Mta. Construction of the factory began in 2012 and has ...
AfDB mobilises US$60m loan for DRC cement project
The Nyumba Ya Akiba Cement project in the DR of Congo marked a significant milestone last week with the loan signing of US$135m. The 1.18Mta greenfield plant is a 50/50 joint...
UNICEM orders Loesche mill for new Calabar line, Nigeria
United Cement Company of Nigeria (UNICEM) has ordered the largest Loesche mill to-date, an LM 70.4+4 for its new line at the Calabar cement works. The Loesche LM 70.4+4 will...
French producers see home and export markets contract
The French cement market continues to contract with the country’s cement association, SFIC, released its provisional November 2014 data. Market demand fell 11.8 per cent YoY to...
Strategic Sri Lankan tie-up
Sri-Lanka based Fuji Cement, a subsidiary of Tokyo Cement which functions as an independent company, is to merge with its parent company and become a single entity with effect ...
CAC applauds Ontario government for its commitment to low-carbon fuels
The Cement Association of Canada (CAC) congratulates Premier Wynne and Minister Murray for proposing new regulations to help Ontario's energy-intensive industries reduce their ...
Boko Haram militants raid Lafarge's Ashaka works, Nigeria
Boko Haram militants on Thursday stormed the Lafarge-owned cement factory in Ashaka, Gombe state, as part of an attack on two towns in northeast Nigeria. According to witnesse...
Four Lehigh Hanson Cement Plants Earn EPA’s ENERGY STAR® Certification
Lehigh Hanson, Inc. announced that four of its Lehigh Cement plants have earned the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) prestigious Energy Star certification for 2014....
Antracem calls for revision of collective agreements
The coordinator of the National Association of Cement Workers in Venezuela (Antracem), has claimed that around 75 per cent of the more than 9000 workers employed within the loc...
Sri Lanka: Cabral new chairman of Tokyo Cement
Dr Harsha Cabral, a senior counsel with 27 years' experience in the fields of company Law, Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Arbitration and Commercial Law & International ...
Italcementi obtains EBRD loan for plant revamp
The Italcementi Group has signed an agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) granting it a loan for approximately EUR20m to fund the modernisa...
Argentina’s cement consumption falls 4.7 per cent MoM
In November, Argentina’s cement market contracted by 9.4 per cent MoM and 4.7 per cent YoY as 997,440t of cement were sold, according to the country's cement association, AFCP....
YTL Cement Singapore acquires Sin Heng Chan
YTL Corporation Bhd's YTL Cement Singapore Pte Ltd unit has acquired Sin Heng Chan (Singapore) Pte Ltd for MYR64.969m (S$24.734m). Sin Heng Chan is engaged cement trading wit...
Saudi: City Cement Co invest in alternative energy project
City Cement Co intends to invest SAR25m (US$6.7m) in an alternative energy project, the Saudi-based producer said in a bourse statement yesterday. The project, anticipated to ...
Vietnam monthly cement production up 6.7% YoY
Vietnam produced 5.6Mt of cement in November, up 5.7 per cent from October and 6.7 per cent from a year ago, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said. In the fir...
Baticim Enerji signs loan agreement, Turkey
Turkish renewable energy producer Baticim Enerji Elektrik Uretim has signed a US$40m loan agreement with local lender Akbank, Baticim Enerji’s affiliate company Baticim Bati An...
South Africa: PPC to reshuffle board
PPC and its investors have agreed to reshuffle the company's board, calling off a special shareholder meeting scheduled for next Monday. “Shareholders are hereby notified th...
US$125m CAF loan signed for Guayaquil project
Holcim Ecuador SA has signed a loan contract for US$125m with the Latin American development bank, CAF. The funds will finance the modernisation of Holcim’s Guayaquil plant. ...
UNACEM completes Ecuador acquisition
Peruvian cement producer Union Andina de Cementos SAA (UNACEM) confirmed that it has completed the purchase of Lafarge’s cement operations in Ecuador. "We are pleased with the...
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