Pakistan: Cherat Cement to construct new 1.3Mta plant
Cherat Cement will construct a new plant with a cement capacity of over 1.3Mta. The project will cost PKR12bn (US$118m) and take 30 months to deliver. The new works will take t...
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India: Dalmia Bharat interest in LafargeHolcim units
Delhi-based Dalmia Bharat is reported to be in talks to bid for one or more European cement assets put on sale by Holcim and Lafarge as part of its global cement merger deal. D...
Chile: Cemento Melon sees 310% 9M14 profit surge
Chilean cement producer Cemento Mélon has reported a 310 per cent YoY rise in pretax profits from CLP1.077bn (US$1.79m) to CLP4.855bn in the first nine months of 2014, accordin...
Latin America: Cemex launches Crecimientos platform
Cemex has established its Crecimientos (“Growth”) platform which is designed to create new business models with high social and environmental impact in Latin American and Asian...
Yemen cement factory overcomes supply problems
Saudi Arabia-based Eastern Cement Co said that fuel and raw materials supply for clinker production in neighbouring Yemen was temporarily interrupted in November, due to the es...
China: Zhongxia Cement joint venture established
China Gezhouba Group reports that its wholly-owned subsidiary Gezhouba Group Cement signed an agreement with Hubei Zhongxia Cement on 26 November, for a joint venture company t...
N+P strikes major Portuguese SRF deal
N+P has signed a five-year contract for the supply of solid recovered fuels (SRF) into a number of cement plants owned by the Portuguese cement companies Secil and Cimpor. The ...
UK: Hanson appoints new national cement sales manager
Mark Hickingbottom has been appointed Hanson bulk cement national sales manager. Mark has been with the company for over 10 years and will be responsible for managing Hanson's ...
Government support of Canadian plant to be investigated
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) welcomed the move by the Office of the US Trade Representative to press Canada at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over a financial assistance pa...
Egypt: cement prices hold firm as energy sources change
Companies have fixed their cement prices and are subject to regular ministry investigations and inspections, said Minister of Supply, Khaled Hanafy, in a Wednesday statement. C...
Mexico: Elementia IPO in 1Q15
Eduardo Musalem, Elementia’s CEO, said the Mexican cement company is looking to list shares during the 1Q15 if market conditions are good. "We are ready to debut in the market...
Egypt: Italcementi to build wind park
Italcementi SpA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Egypt for the construction of a 120MW wind park in the coastal town of El-Zaafarana, where...
Vietnam: cement consumption on the rise
Vietnam's Ministry of Construction forecast that about 52-53Mt of cement and clinker will be consumed in the domestic market in 2014 with an additional 18-21Mt exported. Vietna...
Russia: BaselCement’s Pikalyovo plant to modernise
Leningrad region's BaselCement Pikalyovo plans to raise RUB8bn (EUR138.81m/US$173.16m) in loans to pay for modernisation. The funds will be spent to upgrade production to sw...
India: cement production up in India in September
India Coal Market Watch (ICMW) reports that cement production in India (except ACC and Ambuja) increased to 21.7Mt in September 2014, about 5.44 per cent up on the 20.58Mt reco...
PT Indocement Pati plant delayed
The development of PT Indocement's project for a greenfield plant in Pati regency, Central Java, which was scheduled to start in 2016, is now likely be postponed for two years,...
UK: Hanson Cement set to expand Padeswood
Having staved off closure, Hanson Cement's Padeswood plant is now looking to expand with a rail link and additional cement capacity in a new GBP1.2m investment project. The s...
Sri Lanka: government acquires KKS Cement
Lanka Cement Plc, a subsidiary of Sri Lanka Cement Corp, announced that the Defence Ministry has taken measures to acquire the property of Lanka Cement PLC located at Kankesant...
Tanzania likely to start exporting cement soon
Tanzania expects to double its cement production in the next few years as new factories come on-stream to satisfy growing demand from the construction sector, a senior governme...
Vietnam: Dong Lam Cement to build US$221m plant
Dong Lam Cement JSC will invest VND4.7trn (US$221m) on a new plant in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. The Dong Lam cement plant in Phong Dien district currently has a...
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