Italcementi: only Asia shows sales growth in 2013
Italcementi's turnover declined by 5.4 per cent in 2013 to EUR4235.4m, or by 2.2 per cent on a comparable basis. Group cement shipments declined by a further six per cent to 43...
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Cemex falls back in Mexico but advances in the USA
Cemex' turnover improved by 1.6 per cent in 2013 to US$15,226.5m and EBITDA emerged 0.7 per cent ahead at US$2643m, while the trading profit advanced by 17.4 per cent to US$151...
Lafarge awaits gov't decision on petcoke usage, Egypt
Lafarge has been ordered by Egypt’s Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs (MSEA) to halt its preparations to build storage units for petcoke, according to a statement by ...
Cargotec wins Libyan cement handling order
Turkish construction services company Mussa Insaat Dis Ticaret Ltd of Istanbul has placed an order with Cargotec for a standard road-mobile Siwertell 10 000 S cement unloader. ...
US Jan-November cement shipments up 4% YoY
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in November 2013 were 6.56Mt, down slightly from the same month of the year before. The late...
ENCI loses environmental permit
On 6 February 2014, the Dutch Council of State revoked the environmental permit of ENCI, local press have reported. The measure has been taken as the impact of cement productio...
HeidelbergCement's results hit by currency effects
The preliminary full-year 2013 figures from HeidelbergCement show turnover easing by 0.6 per cent to €13,936m, though on an underlying basis there was a 3.4 per cent increase. ...
Eurocement eyes Belarus cement investment
The Eurocement Group of Russia is ready to invest US$70-80m to upgrade cement production facilities in Belarus, Minister of Architecture and Construction, Anatoly Chernyi, told...
Cemex LatAm Holdings sees improved profitability in most markets
Cemex Latin American Holdings (CLH) has reported 10 per cent increase in turnover for 2013 against the pro-forma numbers for the previous year and improved profitability was se...
China prices seen rising over 2014-15
Cement prices in China are expected to increase by 10 and five per cent in 2014 and 2015, respectively, according to research report by HSBC. As a result, higher prices as well...
Cementir offsets a weaker Italy by better markets elsewhere
Cementir Holding's turnover improved by 1.3 per cent to EUR988.6m, while at constant currencies the increase would have been 5.6 per cent. EBITDA improved by 22.9 per cent to ...
Southern Indian producers start shipments to Myanmar
Cement producers in southern India have begun exporting to Myanmar in a bid to boost utilisation rates as regional domestic demand remains subdued. According to reports by The...
Eagle Materials boosted by acquisition
Including its share of the jointly-owned Texas Lehigh Cement, the turnover of Eagle Materials for the first nine months to 31 December 2013 rose by 37.2 per cent to US$757m. ...
Venezuela: supply issues raise cement prices 50%
Venezuela’s cement companies started the year with operational issues, which have resulted in an irregular supply to customers and a poor performance of the construction indust...
Pakistan: cement exports drop
Pakistani cement exports to Afghanistan dropped to 202,000t in January 2014, the lowest monthly level since July 2013 when they reached 441,412t. Previous data by the All Pa...
UK carbon capture potential to 2013
Pursuing CCS technology in the UK could create a new industry worth GBP15bn-GBP35bn by 2030, employing tens of thousands of people. It could also eventually cut energy bills a...
India: Zuari Cement picks up 'Outstanding Company in Cement' award
Zuari Cement announced it won the "Outstanding Company in Cement Sector" Award as part of the Fourth EPC World Awards 2013. In a release, the company said it is a recognition f...
Israel release 1000t of cement into Gaza
The Gaza Strip will receive 1000t of cement from Israel to help it recover from the last storm, the Palestinian Authority civil affairs minister said. Hussein al-Sheikh told...
Colombia's 2013 cement output up 3%
Colombian yearly cement production increased three per cent to 11.25Mt compared to 2012 with dispatches for 2013 up 3.5 per cent to 10.87Mt, reports Business News America.
Cemtech Middle East & Africa underway
Cemtech Middle East & Africa 2014, the leading international cement conference and exhibition series, has opened in Dubai in front of an audience of over 270 senior industry de...
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