Sinai Cement awards FLSmidth contract to prepare for coal usage
Sinai Cement Co (SCC) has awarded FLSmidth, the contract to provide the equipment to facilitate the use of coal, Daily News Egypt has reported. The Egyptian-based cement prod...
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Lafarge sells Pakistan cement operations
Lafarge announced the sale of its cement operations in Pakistan for an enterprise value of US$329m to local producer Bestway Cement. Lafarge Pakistan Cement Ltd, in which Lafa...
National Cement Co to receive IFC cash injection
Kenya-based National Cement Co Ltd (NCCL), a member of the Devki Group of Companies, is to receive a KES5.9m (US$70m) cash injection from the International Finance Corp (IFC) t...
Philippine cement sales growth continues
Cement sales in the Philippines rose 3.2 per cent in the second quarter of this year, underpinned by public works projects and private sector construction activity. Latest f...
Algeria: Cevital to build 8Mta cement plant
The Cevital group, owned by Issad Hebrab, plans to build a greenfield cement plant in Algeria. The country’s National Investment Council has validated the project and technical...
Eurocement faces losing Uzbekistan unit
Russian cement major Eurocement is facing the loss of its facility in Uzbekistan in a nationalisation drive by the central Asian country. An Uzbek economic court in Tashkent ...
Egypt: Qena Cement 1H profit rises 14% YoY
Egyptian cement producer Qena Cement’s first-half net profit increased by 14 per cent YoY to EGP165.3m (U$23m) compared with EGP144.9m a year earlier. The company’s sales fo...
Holcim (Russia) new CEO appointed
Guillermo Brusco has been appointed CEO of Holcim (Russia), effective 1 July 2014. He replaces Gustavo Navarro. Mr Brusco’s responsibility will cover the strategic developme...
Eagle advances cement volumes by 4%
In the first quarter of its financial year to 31 of March 2014, Eagle Materials' turnover, including its share of the Texas Lehigh cement joint venture, increased by 17 per cen...
Suez Cement 1H earnings rise on cost control efforts
Suez Cement Group of Companies (SCGC) posted an increase in revenues and earnings for the first half of 2014 which it attributed in part to cost control measures. While the out...
Lafarge Surma signs grinding supply agreement with Metrocem, Bangladesh
Lafarge Surma Cement has signed a contract to supply Metrocem Cement Ltd with clinker from its integrated cement plant in Bangladesh. Under the agreement, Lafarge Surma Cement...
Al-Jouf Cement returns to quarterly profit
Al Jouf Cement has posted a 16.4 per cent rise in second-quarter net profit following five consecutive quarterly declines. A gradual improvement in shipments for the three-mont...
SCCC second-quarter net profit down, Thailand
Siam City Cement Co (SCCC), Thailand's second-largest cement producer, posted a nine per cent YoY decline in 2Q14 net profit to THB1.47bn (US$46m) due to foreign exchange losse...
Vecoplan names Eschenhorst VP of cement unit
Uwe Eschenhorst has been named VP – Cement Business Unit at Vecoplan LLC. Eschenhorst joined Vecoplan in 2012 as vice president of its Alternative Fuels and Energy Competency...
Loesche delivers slag mill to Taigang Group
Loesche has delivered the world’s largest slag mill to Taigang Group International Trade Co, Ltd, German equipment specialists have said in a statement. Loesche received the o...
NORM inaugurates Qizildas works, Azerbaijan
NORM Sement has marked the official launch of its 2Mta greenfield Qizildas cement works with an inauguration ceremony attended by Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan. Cement...
RAK Cement swings to first-half net profit, UAE
Preliminary first-half results for Ras Al Khaimah Cement (RAK Cement) show that the UAE-based producer achieved a net profit of AED3.2m (US$871,198) compared to a loss of AED1....
IUCN launches biodiversity guide
The International Union for Conservation (IUCN), in cooperation with CEMBUREAU and other cement and aggregates industry associations, has published a new guide to encourage com...
Oman: OCC profit rises despite drop in sales
Oman Cement Co (OCC) posted a 4.3 per cent rise in net profit before tax for the first six months of this year, despite a drop in sales. The sultanate’s second-largest cement ...
Carthage’s turnover increase fourfold in first six months
Turnover by Tunisia’s newest cement producer, Carthage Cement, amounted to TND101,836m (US$59m), up 419 per cent compared to the same period of last year. Clinker and cement ...
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