Recovery in Indonesian monthly cement sales growth
Indonesian cement sales growth picked up pace during May following a slowdown during the month before on the back of legislative elections. Last month cement sales advanced b...
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Gebr Pfeiffer awarded contracts in Turkey, Iraq and Malaysia
Gebr Pfeiffer has been awarded new contracts for its grinding technology in Turkey, Iraq and Malaysia. Four mills for Elazig cement works in Turkey In Turkey, Bilim Makina I...
New ACC chief executive officer appointed
ACC Ltd, part of the Holcim group, said on Wednesday that it had appointed Harish Badami as the chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director (MD) of the company. In a...
Semen Indonesia provides loan to Gresik, Indonesia
Semen Indonesia is to provide a IDR5trn loan (US$421.76m) to subsidiary Semen Gresik to partly finance the latter’s new cement plant in Central Java, according to an announceme...
Continental Cement earns EPA Energy Star certification
Continental Cement Company’s Hannibal plant has earned the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Energy Star certification. "Continental Cement is pleased to accept EPA...
Iran’s exports surpass 3Mt mark in first two months
Iran exported over 3.47Mt of cement and clinker in the first two months of the current Iranian calendar year, which began on 21 March, an Iranian cement industry official annou...
Vicem’s sales increase boosted by exports
State-owned Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), the country's leading cement producer recorded a seven per cent rise in sales over the first four months of the year bo...
French market regulator clears Italcementi tender offer
French market regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has cleared Italcementi's tender offer on French unit Ciments Francais, paving the way for the operation aimed at...
Maple Leaf signs rail transport agreement, Pakistan
Pakistan Railways has signed an agreement with local cement producer Maple Leaf to transport cement from Daud Khel to Karachi. Railways GM (Operations) Anjum Pervaiz and Mapl...
UltraTech in talks to buy further Jaiprakash assets
UltraTech Cement is reportedly in talks to buy further cement assets from Jaiprakash Associates, two sources with knowledge of the matter have told local press. The talks are ...
The Netherlands: ENCI to operate without licence until 1 August
The Dutch province of Limburg is allowing ENCI in Maastricht, The Netherlands, to continue operating despite the retraction of the cement plant’s licence by the country’s State...
Cemex hikes prices by 7% in Mexico
Cemex is to increase the price of grey cement in Mexico by seven per cent, its second increase of 2014. The company hiked prices in its domestic market during the first quart...
Moroccan cement sales notes 4.5 per cent drop in May
Cement sales in Morocco continue to decline as dispatches in May fell 4.46 per cent, bringing the year-to-date fall to 3.37 per cent. The largest decrease was noted in the r...
Paraguay to inject US$67m in INC
The Paraguayan state will lend Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC) US$67m to reactivate the company’s investments in its Vallemí and Villeta plants, which were on hold due to ...
Cemex Mexico recognised for its environmental strategy
Cemex Mexico has been recognised for its achievements in the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and use of alternative fuels in its operations by the Ministry of Envir...
Third Siwertell road-mobile cement unloader order helps with Libyan reconstruction
The Turkish construction services company Mussa Insaat Dis Ticaret Ltd of Istanbul has ordered a further road-mobile Siwertell 10 000 S cement unloader from Cargotec. The trail...
PPC Zimbabwe sales fall 5%
PPC Zimbabwe's domestic sales fell by five per cent in the first five months of the year as housebuilding activity slows. Managing director, Njombo Lekula, said domestic mark...
Semen Indonesia targets over 40Mta of capacity in 2017
Semen Indonesia targets over 40Mta of capacity over the next three years, as it continues to increase domestic capacity and seeks to expand into other Asian countries and beyon...
Holcim US to increase capacity at Ada works, USA
Holcim US Inc is planning to invest US$100m to modernise its Ada cement works which will see an increase in capacity at the Oklahoma-based plant. Robin DeCarlo, vice president...
Nova Cimangola receives funds to boost capacity, Angola
Nova Cimangola is set to receive AOA11.3bn (US$116m) from the Angolan government to increase the cement plant’s production capacity. According to a decree dated on 28 April ...
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