Roanoke Cement recognised for environmental achievements
Roanoke Cement Company, a subsidiary of Titan America, has been formally recognised as an Exemplary Environmental Enterprise within the Virginia Environmental Excellence Progra...
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Dangote plans to invest in new Kenya plant
Dangote Cement plans to invest in a new cement plant in Kenya, according to the country’s president’s office. Aliko Dangote was part of a business delegation that was visitin...
Mika Cement to resume operations, Armenia
Armenia-based producer Mika Cement plans to resume operations, having been idle for a year. The kiln will be launched on 10 September 2013, plant director Naira Martirosyan t...
ASEC consortium wins Iraq plant contract
A consortium of ASEC Cement and Iraq's Qemmet El-Iraq has won a contract to rehabilitate and manage for 14 years the Muthanna cement plant in Muthanna Governorate, Iraq. Repr...
Khai Hung Co acquires Vietnam firm
Khai Hung Company has acquired a 51 per cent stake, or 10.2 million shares, of Vinaconex Xuan Mai Concrete & Construction JSC (XMC) from Vietnam Construction and Import-Export ...
Otto Marine signs MoU for new cement carriers project, Indonesia
Singapore-based Otto Marine has signed a memorandum of understanding (Mo) for the building of five new cement carriers with sizes ranging from 7500-15,000dwt for an Indonesian ...
New Mozambique plant project
A 0.5Mta cement plant is due to be built in the Chibabava district of Mozambique’s central Sofala province, the country’s President, Armando Guebuza, announced. Mozambican ne...
Sinai Cement first-half profit declines, Egypt
Sinai Cement reported a 30 per cent YoY decline in net profit for the first six months of 2013. The Egypt-based cement producer said that net profit fell to EGP50,991,171 (US$7...
DG Khan Cement posts 34% rise in annual profit, Pakistan
DG Khan Cement, part of the Nishat Group and one of Pakistan's largest cement manufacturers, posted a 34 per cent YoY increase in profit for fiscal year 2012-13. According to...
Iran increases output by 3% in first five months
Cement output in the first five months of the current calendar year (started on 21 March 2013) continued its upward climb to reach 31.475Mt, information from Iran’s Cement Prod...
S&P lifts Cimpor outlook from stable to positive
Standard & Poor’s has reaffirmed its ‘BB/B’ long and short term rating on Cimpor and InterCement, revising the outlook from stable to positive. The change follows the Outlook ...
Bolivia’s Tarija government studies new cement plant option
The government of Tarija, Bolivia, is studying the possibility of building a cement plant on the back of limestone deposits in the department, said Cyrus Rose, Tarija’s product...
Pakistan monthly sales fall
Pakistan cement dispatches fell seven per cent YoY in August due to the Eid holidays and wet weather conditions. Sales were down to 2.15Mt in August 2013 compared to 2.6Mt in...
Malaysian fuel price hikes to impact production costs
Lafarge Malaysia Bhd, the country's leading cement producer, said an increase in fuel prices due to the government's recently-announced cut in subsidies, will have a definite i...
Cemex starts affordable housing construction project, Dominican Republic
Cemex has launched the construction of 186 units of affordable housing in the province of San Pedro de Macoris, during a ceremony headed by the President of Dominican Republic,...
ACC plans to list on Egypt stock market
Arabian Cement Co (ACC) is preparing to list on Egypt’s stock market and has submitted a proposal to the Misr for Central Clearing, Depository and Registry (MCDR) to be central...
Tanga 1H hit by competition, higher costs
Tanzania-based cement producer Tanga Cement reported a 36.7 per cent drop in first-half net profit due to increased competition and operating costs. For the six months to th...
TCC expects sales increase in China and Taiwan
Taiwan Cement Co (TCC) said it expects shipments to China to increase by double-digits this year due to strong infrastructure demand while domestic shipments are also forecast ...
ASEC Minya begins production, Egypt
ASEC Minya Cement, an affiliate company of ASEC Cement, announced it has started production at its new 2Mta factory in the Minya governorate. The new factory is located 200k...
Tong Yang sells waste heat recovery plant, South Korea
South Korea-based cement producer Tong Yang Cement Corporation has sold a waste heat recovery plant to Samcheok Energy, a company invested by a private equity fund run by Macqu...
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