SCG Philippine operations post higher sales
Siam Cement's operations in the Philippines posted stronger sales of cement, building materials and tiles in the first half of 2014, the Thai conglomerate said in a statement. ...
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Birla HomeTech mulls Kurnool plant project, India
Birla HomeTech are considering setting up a cement factory in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh (AP). N Chandrababu Naidu, chief minister of AP, assured Birla HomeTech of...
CRH returns to first-half pretax profit
CRH's first half turnover advanced by four per cent to EUR8,324m and the EBITDA improved by 27.2 per cent to EUR505m. The trading profit jumped from EUR41m to EUR171m and afte...
Peru cement sales fall 3.9% in July
Cement dispatches in Peru reached 845,907t in July, representing a 3.9 per cent decline YoY, according to Asocem, the country's cement producers' association. In the year to...
Vietnam government investment arm to divest in Yen Bai shareholding
The Vietnamese government’s investment arm, State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC), plans to sell its entire 1.9 million shares of Yen Bai Cement and Minerals JSC (YBC) be...
TCC confident on fourth-quarter revenue boost
Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC) said it expects revenue to rise by 13 per cent in the second half of this year from TWD58.59bn (US$1.96bn) in the first half due to an anticipated rise...
Essroc's Nazareth plant earns Energy Star® certification
Essroc’s cement plant in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, has earned the US Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR® certification which signifies that the facility performs in th...
Morgan Stanley raises Buzzi Unicem rating
Morgan Stanley has raised its rating on Italy's Buzzi Unicem to "overweight" from "equal weight", on a strong upside potential for the cement maker's stock which has underperfo...
West China Cement first-half revenue rises despite flat volumes
West China Cement reported higher revenue and gross profit margins for the six months to the end of June 2014, boosted by higher average selling prices (ASP) in its core market...
Iran exports surpass 6.6Mt in first four months
Iran exported approximately 6.62Mt of cement and clinker in the first four months of the current Iranian year (21 March - 22 July 2014), a cement industry official has said. "...
Nigeria: Dangote pretax profit dips
Nigeria's Dangote Cement said on Friday its half-year pretax profit fell to NGN107.06bn (US$659.4m), down 0.57 per cent from NGN107.68bn a year ago. However, turnover rose to ...
Improved pricing and exports boost CCCL first half
Caribbean Cement Company Ltd (CCCL), the Jamaican subsidiary of Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL), achieved a 28 per cent increase in revenue for the first half of the year due to ...
Eurocement first-half shipments rise, Russia
In the first half of 2014, Eurocement Group shipped over 450,000t of PC 500-D0-N grade cement, 24 per cent higher than the previous year. PC 500-D0-N cement is actively being...
Ash Grove announces new president and COO
Ash Grove Cement Company’s board of directors announced the promotion of J Randall Vance to president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. Vance, who served thr...
Cemex Latam to build new cement works
Cemex Latam Holdings is to invest around US$340m in building an additional cement works in Colombia. The new plant will be built in the Antioquia department, which is enjoyi...
US first-half shipments reach 39.5Mt – preliminary data
Total shipments of blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico including imports in the first six months of 2014 reached 39.5Mt, preliminary data from the US Geological survey sho...
Argos considers acquiring Holcim and Lafarge Latin America divestments
Colombia's Cementos Argos is currently looking into acquiring the assets Lafarge and Holcim are planning to sell in Latin America, particularly Mexico and Brazil. However, it h...
Wonder Cement places new order with Gebr Pfeiffer, India
India-based producer Wonder Cement has placed an order with Gebr Pfeiffer for raw meal and coal mills as part of plans to expand its Tehsil Nimbahera cement works. The mills wi...
Orient in strategic talks to acquire 2Mta plant
Orient Cement is in talks with three companies to acquire a cement plant as part of plans to triple capacity by 2020, a senior company executive has said. Deepak Ketrapal, ma...
Solidia Technologies signs partnership agreement with Linde Group
The US start-up Solidia Technologies has signed a partnership agreement with the Linde Group, a gases and engineering company, that includes the development, demonstration and ...
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