Carolinas Cement plans US$5m packaging facility
Carolinas Cement Company, part of the Titan America group, announced Friday it has submitted an application with New Hanover County to build a permit to construct a US$5m packa...
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Shree plans 3Mta Odisha grinding plant, India
Shree Cement plans to establish a 3Mta cement grinding mill in Dhenkanal district, Odisha state. The Rajasthan-based company wants to use fly-ash generated from the nearby powe...
Lafarge Nigeria calls for review of labelling
Lafarge Nigeria is calling for proper product labelling by manufacturers to address the wrong application of cement products. Lanre Opakunle, the company’s General Manager, I...
EU clears Holcim and Cemex deal in Germany
Holcim has received unconditional clearance by the European Commission for its proposed acquistion of Cemex West in Germany. The decision follows a detailed Phase II review by ...
Carthage Cement issues Provisional Performance Acceptance certificate, Tunisia
The Provisional Acceptance certificate has been issued by Carthage Cement for the 5800tpd Djebel Ressas cement plant in Tunisia, constructed by an FLSmdith-Ekon-Prokon consorti...
Italcementi prices EUR500m capital increase at EUR4.825/share
Italian cement major Italcementi said its EUR500m capital increase will be priced at EUR4.825/share. The rights issue, part of a plan to strengthen and streamline the group's ...
Holcim Mexico to implement biomass firing at Orizaba
Holcim Mexico plans to use biomass from the coffee, paper and brewing industries as energy source for its kilns. The initiative will help the cement producer to reduce its carb...
Chile: Bío-Bío Talcahuano cuts PM by more than 600tpa
Cementos Bío-Bío has cut PM emissions at its Talcahuano works by more than 600tpa. The improvement follows the installation of a bag filter, which has been in operations sinc...
Ghana: prices stablise in Northern Region
Cement prices in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale, Ghana, have now stabilised, according to local press reports. Until recently, a bag of cement was being sold at bet...
HeidelbergCement India announces appointment of chief operating officer
HeidelbergCement India Ltd has informed Bombay Stock Exchange that Jamshed Naval Cooper, director (Sales & Marketing) of HeidelbergCement India Limited (HCIL) has taken over th...
Algeria: Saoura Ciment to build 1Mta works
Saoura Ciment, a subsidiary of GICA, is currently carrying out negotiations with a Chinese partner to realise the Ben-Zireg cement plant, in Bechar, according to its director g...
Raysut appoints new chief executive, Oman
Oman’s Raysut Cement has appointed Salem Alawi Mohammed Baabood as chief executive, the company said in a bourse statement on Wednesday.
New low-carbon cement type receives funding
An EPFL-led consortium which is developing a new blend of cement that promises to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete by up to 40 per cent has received financial backing fr...
Claudius Peters to supply Indarung VI project, Indonesia
Claudius Peters Projects has been awarded a contract from PT Semen Padang, part of Semen Indonesia, to supply two new cement storage silos for the cement producer's new Indarun...
Lafarge to merge South Africa and Nigerian units
Lafarge has announced it is to consolidate its African operations by combining its businesses in Nigeria and South Africa. Lafarge will transfer its shares in its Nigerian and ...
Pakistan FY14-15 Budget set to positively impact on the cement sector
Pakistan’s FY14-15 Budget, announced yesterday by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, is being regarded as largely positive for the country’s cement industry as it includes a number of...
Colombian April demand increases 4.3%
The Colombian cement market expanded by 4.3 per cent YoY in April 2014 as 0.957Mt were delivered to domestic customers, according to the latest report from national statistics ...
Vietnam monthly cement sales up
Companies in Vietnam sold 6.07Mt of cement in May, up 9.7 per cent from a year ago, including 4.77Mt sold at the domestic market, rising by 11.9 per cent YoY, the Vietnam Build...
KHD modernisation projects underway for Heidelberg
KHD’s two modernsation projects for HeidelbergCement’s plant in Lengfurt, Germany, are currently underway. These projects include the modernisation of raw meal grinding unit ...
Cemex opens new Spanish distribution centre
Cemex opened a new distribution centre on Tuesday in Rubi, a city located 25km from Barcelona. Cemex Spain CEO, Jaime Ruiz de Haro, and Rubi Mayor, Carme Garcia cut the ribbo...
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