Dangote on-track to complete five projects in 2014
Dangote Cement will complete five cement plants across sub-Saharan Africa this year, adding around 13.5Mta of capacity to the group's existing volumes, according to Aliko Dango...
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EAPCC plans to hike capacity, Kenya
East African Portland Cement (EAPCC), Kenya’s third largest producer, is planning to install a new clinker line and mill to lift capacity by 2016, the company’s CEO told local ...
Vicem 2013 revenue rises 7% YoY
Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), Vietnam’s leading domestic producer, said its revenues rose by seven per cent YoY in 2013 to more than VND30.5trn (US$1.45bn). Sta...
US shipments see annual gains
Total shipments of blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico in October 2013 were 8.7Mt, up eight per cent from October 2012, latest data from the USGS shows. Shipments for the ...
Iran exports rise 36.2% in first nine months
Iran exported 14.425Mt of cement and clinker in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year, representing a rise of 36.2 per cent YoY. Total exports comprised ...
Jiangxi Wannianqing profit forecast, China
Jiangxi Wannianqing Cement Co Ltd anticipates net profit to have reached between CNY400-450m (US$66m-74m) in 2013, growing about 110-136 per cent YoY, according to the company'...
PT Semen Indonesia to increase packing capacities
PT Semen Indonesia plans to increase its number of packing plants to 30 over the next two years as part of the company's strategy of reducing logistic costs and bringing its pr...
Vietnam cement sales exceed annual target
Vietnam cement sales climbed by 13.9 per cent YoY in 2013, exceeding the full-year target by 7.5 per cent, according to the Ministry of Construction (MoC). Latest figures by ...
Najran Cement launches trial operations of WHR plant, Saudi Arabia
Najran Cement on Saturday launched on Saturday trial operations of the first phase of its waste heat recovery (WHR). The trial will take 10 days to complete and the commercial ...
Lafarge one step closer to completing US refocus
Lafarge announces the sale of five aggregates quarries and related assets in Maryland (USA) to Bluegrass Materials for a total enterprise value of US$320m. With these divestmen...
February restart for flood-hit Ferriby works, UK
Production at Cemex’s South Ferriby works is set to resume in February – two months after the site was forced to close due to floods. A tidal surge on 5 December 2013 caused t...
Semen Indonesia: upbeat on 2014 outlook
PT Semen Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, the holding company for domestic producers Semen Gresik, Semen Padang and Semen Tonasa and Vietnam-based Thang Long Cement, is upbeat on its o...
Kenyan prices expected to rise
A decision by Kenya's ministry of Mining to impose a levy on cement manufacturers is likely to see cement prices rise by KES10/50kg bag next week. “This new levy is a result...
New member of FLSmidth Group Executive Management
FLSmidth announced that Eric Thomas Poupier has been appointed to a newly created position in Group Executive Management as Group Executive Vice President, Business Development...
UltraTech director elected as new CMA president
Mr OP Puranmalka, Ultratech Cements whole-time director, has been elected as the new president of the Cement Manufacturers' Association (CMA) of India for the 2013-14 term. ...
Pakistan production costs set to increase
Pakistan cement producers fear further production costs increases after the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) has been increased from PKR50/mmbtu to PKR100. This will...
TXI 2Q sales increase, but net loss widens
Texas Industries, Inc today reported a wider net loss for the quarter ended 30 November 2013 compared to the same period of last year, as a number of non-recurring and short-te...
Argentina reports annual consumption gains
Cement consumption in Argentina increased by 16.1 per cent YoY in December to reach 914,964t, latest data from industry association AFCP shows. However, despite the annual incr...
Energy savings for Çimko Cement
Mobil SHC™Gear has helped Turkish cement producer Çimko Cement reduce energy consumption with its Mobil SHC Gear 320, therefore improving energy efficiency at the company's Nar...
US energy efficiency update
US cement industry energy consumption in 2012 decreased by 2.1 per cent against 2011 levels, the recently released annual Labor-Energy Input Survey by the PCA indicates. This e...
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