Raising energy price caps harms Ukraine cement exports
Ukraine, the cement industry is not operating at full capacity. “ Only 60-70 per cent of our capacity is currently being utilised,” reports Lyudmila Kripka, executive directo...
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Asia Cement reports 31% drop in 2Q net profit
Asia Cement Corp posted a revenue of TWD18.666bn (US$623m)c in the second quarter of 2024 as it slipped 1.7 per cent YoY from TWD18.985bn in the equivalent period of 2024. ...
Placing orders for dry bulk cement carriers
Adani Group's Ambuja Cements is in talks to acquire two cement carriers and eight clinker carriers worth around INR25bn (US$285.7m), turning to Chinese shipbuilders after fail...
Votorantim reports revenue growth in 2Q25
Votorantim Cimentos reported higher revenue, profit, sales volumes and investments in the 2Q25, supported by positive pricing trends and growth across multiple regions. Co...
Brazil’s cement market expands 3% in July
Cement sales in Brazil edged up by 3.1 per cent YoY to 6.063Mt in July 2025 when compared with July 2024, when 5.881Mt were sold in the domestic market. Of this total, 2.74...
Loma Negra reports drop in 2Q net revenue due to constrained pricing
Loma Negra reported net sales revenues of ARS174.511bn (US$149m) in the second quarter of 2025, representing a YoY fall of eight per cent as the top line of the company’s cem...
Senegal’s cement demand expands 9% in June
Cement consumption in Senegal advanced by 8.7 per cent YoY to 567,800t in June 2025 when compared with June 2024, when domestic sales were 522,400t, according to the country’s ...
Heidelberg Materials Italia Calcestruzzi acquires 100% of Cava Nord
Heidelberg Materials Italia Calcestruzzi SpA has acquired 100 per cent of the share capital of Cava Nord Srl, located in Paderno Dugnano.
Asia Cement Corp to diversify as revenue falls
Taiwan’s Asia Cement Corp (ACC) says that it plans to invest TWD2.52bn (US$84m) in a large-scale battery energy storage project in Kaohsiung’s Siaogang District as it diversi...
Cemento Moctezuma invests MXN270m in alternative fuels
Mexico-based Cemento Moctezuma , part of Molins , has commissioned a MXN240m (US$12.9m) waste processing system at its Tepetzingo plant to increase alternative fuel use and, ...
Lucky Cement demonstrates a YoY 17% increase in FY24-25 PAT
Pakistan's largest cement producer, Lucky Cement , announced its highest-ever consolidated profit after tax of PKR76.9bn (US$27.12m), marking a 17 per cent increase YoY, w...
Al Jouf Cement's losses increase to SAR39m in 1H25
Al Jouf Cement Co recorded net losses at SAR38.62m in the 1H25, 143.5 per cent higher than the SAR15.86m net losses in the 1H24. The company registered an 11.5 per cent YoY ...
Mangalam Cement reports 89% jump in 1Q profit
Mangalam Cement posted a net revenue of INR4.517bn (US$51.58m) in the quarter ended 30 June 2025 (1QFY25-26), up 18.7 per cent YoY from INR3.806bn in the year-ago period. ...
Star Cement sees 1Q swing to black
Star Cement Ltd reported a 13.3 per cent uptick in net revenue to INR5.447bn (US$62.2m) in the April-June quarter of FY25-26 (1QFY25-26) from INR4.808bn in the 1QFY24-25. ...
Green360 Technologies Ltd secures AUD4m for scale-up of green cement
Green360 Technologies Ltd has secured commitments to raise AUD4m (US$2.6m) before costs through a placement of approximately 181.8m new fully paid ordinary shares at A$0.022 e...
Fauji Cement Co saw a record growth of 62% in profit during FY24-25
The Board of Directors of Fauji Cement Co Ltd (FCCL) has published its financial results for the year ended 30 June 2025 (FY24-25), at the Pakistan Stock Exchange. The compa...
Misr Qena Cement net profit leaps to EGP784m in 1H
Egypt-based Misr Cement Qena Co reported net sales of EGP2.05bn (US$43.2m) in the second quarter of 2025, up 97.1 per cent when compared with the 2Q24 results of EGP1.04bn. ...
Dangote wins cement company of the year award
Dangote Cement has been named Cement Company of the Year at the just concluded Africa International Housing Show in Abuja, Nigeria. In a statement from the firm, it was st...
Electric kiln as global first in lime production
thyssenkrupp Polysius will provide a zero emissions kiln system to SMA Mineral's 0.04Mta quicklime plant in Norway. Based on SaltX electric calcination technology, the project i...
Taiheiyo Cement sales fall 6% in 2Q25
Taiheiyo Cement has recorded 7.64Mt of Japanese cement sales in the 2Q25, down 6.4 per cent YoY. The company stated that this is mainly due to soaring construction costs, a c...
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