Misr Beni Suef signs equipment contract to facilitate coal usage
Misr Beni Suef Cement has reportedly signed contracts with a European company for the equipment needed to operate a kiln line with coal, involving an investment of EGP200m (US$...
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JP Morgan Chase & Co acquires shares in Anhui Conch Cement
JP Morgan Chase & Co bought 257,000 shares in Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd worth HK$ 7.03m on 13 June 2014, sources reported, citing the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. After the purc...
Mitsubishi Materials Corp to reopen California terminal
Mitsubishi Materials Corp, Japan’s second-biggest cement maker, plans to restart its US import terminal for the first time in seven years, Naoki Ono, president of the company’s...
Boral to cut 28 jobs as Maldon prepares to cease clinker production, Australia
Boral is to axe up to 28 jobs as the Australia-based producer ceases clinker production at its Maldon works as of 31 December. Ross Harper, executive general manager of Bora...
Improving demand outlook for southern India
Cement demand in southern India is expected to witness stronger rates of growth in the current fiscal led by infrastructure projects in Andhra Pradesh, a new report has forecas...
Vicem production up 5.1% per cent in first five months
Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem) produced 7.34Mt of cement in the first five months of this year, rising 5.1 per cent from a year ago and fulfilling 39 per cent of t...
Belgorodskiy Cement monthly output increases 6% YoY
Belgorodskiy Cement, a member of Russia’s Eurocement group, produced 155,439t of cement, six per cent more than the same month of 2013. The company witnessed increased demand...
Holcim (Argentina) places order with IKN
Holcim (Argentina) SA has placed an order for a state-of-the-art IKN Pendulum Cooler® with a grate area of 61m² and latest Coanda Wing® technology, designed to replace the exis...
Venezuela: Cemento Andino output reaches 283,308t
Venezuela’s Cemento Andino produced 283,308t of cement between January and mid-June. The output was delivered to serve the Trujillo, Mérida, Barinas, Portuguesa, Lara and Zulia...
Cemex invests in Dominican Republic operations
Cemex is carrying out investments DOP989m (US$22.75m) worth of investments in the Dominican Republic to improve energy efficiency as well as enhance bagging and distribution ca...
Wartsila to supply Umm Al-Qura Cement Co power plant, Saudi Arabia
Wartsila has received an order to supply a turnkey power plant from Saudi-based Umm Al-Qura Cement Co. The contract for the 47MW facility will be located in the mountain desert...
PT Holcim Indonesia officially launches production at Tuban I
PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk officially announced its first cement production from Line 1 at its Tuban plant on 17 June 2014, adding 1.7Mta to the company’s total production capa...
Lafarge Zimbabwe investigating locations for US$250m cement works
Lafarge Zimbabwe is currently looking for a suitable location for a new US$250m cement plant in the country. Feasibility reports will be carried out in areas with large limesto...
Peru: cement dispatches edge ahead
Between January and May 2014, Peru’s cement market expanded by 0.51 per cent YoY to 4,129,906t, according to the latest figures from the domestic cement association, Asocem. ...
HeidelbergCement to sell building materials business
German cement maker HeidelbergCement will dispose of its bricks and building materials business, and has already contacted several banks about the deal, the Financial Times rep...
Huaxin acquires stake in Cambodian plant
China's Huaxin Cement Co Ltd has bought a 40 per cent stake in Cement Chakrey Ting Factory Co Ltd of Cambodia. The US$24m investment was announced on 17 June, according to a re...
Malaysia: Narra Industries to buy preference share in Hume Cement
Narra Industries Bhd, which is primarily an investment holding company for furniture and previously fibre cement, has won shareholder approval to diversify its business portfol...
Burundi Cement Co receives go-ahead for limestone quarry
Burundi Cement Co (BUCECO) has received government approval to start limestone exploitation on the edges of Cibitoke. Initially, the quarried limestone will meet 60 per cent of...
Asia Cement targets increased market share
Asia Cement Corp said it plans to boost its market share in the provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Jiangsu, the company disclosed at its annual shareholders’ meeting. Thr...
Cemex Colombia investigates alternative power sources
Cemex is interested in landfill biogas, wind and solar energy sources in Colombia and evaluates projects of US$50m (EUR36.9m) for the next five years, Colombian daily El Tiempo...
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