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FLSmidth, in a consortium with Six Construct, has received an order from Qatar Primary Materials Co (QPMC). The order value for FLSmidth is approximately EUR140m and covers sup...
In October 2013, Argentinean cement plants shipped 1,151,413t of cement, including exports, representing a 9.5 per cent increase compared to the previous month and a 16.2 per c...
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico in August 2013 rose five per cent YoY to 8.6Mt, data from the US Geological Survey shows. Shipments f...
Dangote Cement’s new cement factory in Douala, Cameroon, is on-track to start producing its first cement in May 2014, the plant’s general manager has said. “The installation a...
Morocco’s cement market continues to contract with October sales falling by 18.63 per cent YoY, according to data from the Ministry of Housing, Planning and Urban Policy. Wh...
Preliminary data and market estimates show that cement sales in Brazil during October reached 6.5Mt, a 4.7 per cent YoY increase from the same period of last year. Data from l...
Cimsa has joined the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), making it the first Turkish company to join the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) programm...
Military-run Viettel Group has acquired a 70 per cent stake of Vietnamese cement producer Cam Pha Cement for VND140bn ($6.64m). The 139.8m shares were purchased from Vietnam ...
In its autumn trading statement, CRH announced that it expects the EBITDA to be broadly in line with last 2012 numbers, assuming normal weather patterns for the remainder of th...
KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG’s Americas Customer Service Center based in Atlanta, Humboldt Wedag Inc, recently signed a contract with Holcim (US) Inc for engineering, de...
Raysut Cement, the leading cement producer in Oman, reported a rise in pretax profit for the first nine months of 2013, but sales eased due in part to competition from neighbou...
Ultracem SAS, a new entrant on the Colombian cement market, has initiated operations of a cement grinding plant supplied by Gebr Pfeiffer Inc at its plant in Barranquilla. The...
Cemex announced today that it has been selected for inclusion in the United Nations Global Compact 100– a new global stock index that combines corporate sustainability and base...
In the first 10 months, Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem) sales rose by 9.2 per cent YoY to 17.65Mt, including a significant rise in exports. Of the total, 15.84Mt ...
The 18th Arab International Cement Conference and Exhibition opened its doors today to delegates from across the Middle East & Africa cement industry at the King Hussein Bin Ta...
Buzzi Unicem's turnover for the first nine months declined up by 3.2 per cent to EUR2078.5m and the EBITDA came off by 10.6 per cent to EUR335.8m. The trading profit was dow...
The Algerian cement plants of Tébessa, Ain Kebira and Chlef have been selected to go public. In a statement to APS, the president of the Stock Exchange Supervisory and Organisi...
Staff at Pertigalete, Cementos Venezuela’s largest plant, have declared an “operational emergency” as the seven kilns have stopped producing clinker. Union leaders have said t...
Southern Province Cement Co's (SPCC) has signed a contract for the construction of a second production line at its Bisha cement works in Saudi Arabia, the company said in a bou...
Dangote Cement reported a 28.7 per cent in revenue as demand continues to remain strong in its domestic market of Nigeria. According to the unaudited results, profit before t...
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