Limak Group places order for seven Gebr Pfeiffer VRMs
The Limak Cement Group of Turkey has ordered seven mills, three raw mills, three cement mills and one coal mill, from Gebr Pfeiffer SE to upgrade its Pinarhisar, Ankara und Bal...
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Shanshui Cement 1H hit by pricing pressures
China Shanshui Cement said it expects to record a significant YoY decrease in net profit for the six months ended 30 June 2013 of not less than 40 per cent due to to persisten...
Can Tho Mineral & Cement to delist from HNX
Can Tho Mineral & Cement JSC (CCM), has approved a plan to delist 4.6m shares from the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX). The decision was made due to the company’s difficulties in o...
Ash Grove appoints Midwest VP of Manufacturing, USA
Ash Grove Cement Company announced that Stuart E. Tomlinson is joining the company as its vice president of Manufacturing for the Midwest region and will be based in the compan...
CRH announces new group chief executive, Ireland
CRH has announced that Albert Manifold will assume the role of group chief executive on 1 January 2014, following the retirement of the current chief executive, Myles Lee, afte...
Brazil’s first half-sales edge ahead
Brazilian cement sales in the first half of 2013 rose 1.6 per cent to 33.6Mt, latest data from local association Sindicato Nacional da Indústria do Cimento shows. In June 2013...
Paraguay’s INC registers 5M13 loss
State-owned Industria Nacional del Cemento of Paraguay noted a loss of PYG22.413bn (US$5m) in the first five months of 2013, indicating a rise on the previous year. In 2012, t...
Cementos Lemona starts exports to UK
Spain’s Cementos Lemona has initiated exporting cement to the UK. The first shipment of 13,000t of cement will be delivered to Southern Cement, also owned by Lemona’s parent co...
BBMG Corp issues profit warning, China
BBMG Corp announced yesterday that it expected its net profit to fall not more than 15 per cent YoY in the first six months of this year, due to pricing pressures. The compan...
PT Semen Indonesia downgraded
Bahana Securities downgraded cement maker PT Semen Indonesia to "hold" from "buy", saying the slowdown in the property market and higher cost of goods sold (COGS) translated to...
Dominican Republic inaugurates new plant
President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic has officially inaugurated Cementos Panam's (PANAM) US$80m cement plant in San Pedro. PANAM executive Manuel Estrella said...
Spain registers further market contraction
The Spanish cement market registered a 24 per cent YoY drop in the first half of 2013 and the decline is expected to continue through the remainder of the year. In the first...
FLSmidth wins new cement orders in Brazil
FLSmidth has received orders from two Brazilian cement producers, comprising a new 3300tpd line and a OK-33 vertical roller mill. The new kiln line is for Companhia De Cimen...
New plant for Uzbekistan under planning
The Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Plant (AMMP) is to build a 1.5Mta cement plant in Surkhandarya region in southern Uzbekistan by 2017. According to reports by the Times ...
Sri Lanka sales expected to pick up
Following a contraction in the first quarter of this year, cement demand in Sri Lanka is expected to pick up, according to forecasts by one of the country’s leading producers. ...
New capacity boosts Semen Tonasa sales
PT Semen Tonasa reported a 137 per cent YoY rise in first-half sales to 2.78Mt compared to the same period of last year. Sales of the company, which is part of the Semen Ind...
Madras Cements to develop beneficiation plant, India
Madras Cements is developing a limestone beneficiation plant at Alathiyur in Tamil Nadu with a capacity of 400tpd. The company will set up this plant near its 3Mta cement plan...
CSI reports encouraging carbon reduction data
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)’s Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) has published the latest update to the ‘Getting the Numbers Right’ datab...
Peru’s cement market expands 11.4% in 1H13
Domestic cement dispatches in Peru totalled 4,904,873t in the first half of 2013, representing an increase of 11.42 per cent when compared with 1H12, according to Peru’s cement...
Oman Cement completes mill repairs
Oman Cement Co has said that the necessary repairs to its mill that was shut last month due to a technical fault have been carried out “successfully in-house and by availing lo...
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