Monthly cement production rises 6.2%, Colombia
Colombia produced 966,800t of cement in July 2013, up 6.2 per cent YoY, according to the latest data from national statistics office Dane. In terms of dispatches, a 11.5 per ...
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Siam City Cement shelves Cambodia plant plans
Thailand-based Siam City Cement (SCCC) has put its plans for a 1Mta cement plant in Cambodia on hold while it concentrates on meeting domestic market needs. Managing director...
India invites expressions of interest for CCI units
The government of India has announced plans to sell four non-operating units of state-owned Cement Corporation of India. “Cement Corporation of India has started the sale proc...
Moroccan sales slide 12.6% in first six months
In the first half of 2013 Moroccan cement sales fell 12.6 per cent YoY to 7.8Mt, although the pace of decline significantly eased in the second quarter, latest statistics from ...
Vietnam August production rises 8.32%
Vietnam cement production in August climbed to 4.9Mt, an 8.32 per cent increase compared to the same period of last year, the General Statistics Office has said. Compared to J...
Andhra Pradesh orders plant closure, India
The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) has ordered the closure of India Cements Ltd factory at Yerraguntla for non-compliance of regulatory standards, resulting in ...
Holcim and Cemex to swap, combine assets in Europe
Holcim and Cemex have reached an agreement to conduct a series of transactions to exchange and combine assets in parts of Europe with the aim of improving synergies and boostin...
Cimpor boosted by South American operations
Cimpor's underlying first half turnover improved by 19.6 per cent to EUR1299.8m as the company is boosted by its new South America operations but Portuguese losses more than do...
MacGregor wins order for Japanese cement carrier
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a new order for autonomous loading and unloading systems for an 8700dwt cement carrier to be built for Japanese shipowner Taiheiyo Kise...
Buzzi Unicem completes buy-out of Dyckerhoff shares
Buzzi Unicem said on Tuesday that the squeeze-out of all outstanding ordinary and preferred shares in German-based Dyckerhoff AG still held by minority shareholders was recorde...
Holcim Indonesia orders Loesche VRM
Holcim Indonesia Tbk has ordered a LM 56.3+3 from Loesche for its Tuban Line II cement production facility, which is to be a replica of Tuban Line I. The mill will grind clinke...
Nepal allocates power supply funds to nine plants
Nepal's Ministry of Industry (MoI) has decided to allocate NPR360m (US$3.5m) to provide electricity connections to nine cement factories as part of its infrastructural developm...
China Shanshui Cement 1H hit by lower prices
China Shanshui Cement recorded a YoY drop in net profit attributable to shareholders in the first six month of 2013, as the group faced pricing pressures in key operating regio...
UltraTech poised for Jaiprakash's Gujarat units
UltraTech Cement is said to be in advanced stages of discussions to acquire the Gujarat-based cement units of Jaiprakash Associates, local media have reported. Sources familia...
Ha Tien 1 issues new shares for debt reduction, Vietnam
Ha Tien 1 Cement JSC (HT1) has approved a plan to issue 120 million new shares in a private placement to Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), the country’s leading ceme...
Lafarge Pakistan Cement earnings rise
Lafarge Pakistan Cement posted earnings growth of 73.6 per cent in the first half of the year. According to a notice sent to the Karachi Stock Exchange the company’s profits ju...
Prosperity Minerals completes sale of TCC Liaoning Cement, China
Prosperity Minerals has completed the sale of its 16.11 per cent stake in China-based TCC Liaoning Cement to TCC International Holdings. All the necessary approvals were obt...
Higher demand lifts Yamama 1H net profit, Saudi Arabia
Saudi-based producer Yamama Cement Company reported a 11.7 per cent YoY rise in first half net profit thanks to a rise in sales due to higher local demand. For the first six m...
China's Sinoma profit falls as turnover climbs
China National Materials Co Ltd, Sinoma Group (China), has reported mixed results for the first six months of 2013. While turnover over the period moved ahead 6.9 per cent to C...
Sinai profits slump, Egypt
Sinai Cement, Egypt, reported a steep fall in profits for the first half of 2013. 1H13 net profits fell by 31 per cent to EGP51.1m (US$7.3m), down from EGP74.2m (US$10.6m) over...
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