Ozinga breaks ground on 1Mta mill project
Ozinga has broken ground on a cutting-edge low-carbon cement manufacturing facility in east Chicago, Indiana, USA. Equipped with one of North America’s largest vertical roller ...
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Nuvoco Vistas reports 69% advance in 1Q net profit
Nuvoco Vistas Corp posted a nine per cent rise in consolidated revenue from operations to INR28.727bn (US$333.6m) in the first quarter of FY25-26 (ended 30 June 2025)from INR...
Rwandan quarry licence paves way for new clinker plant
The government of Rwanda has signed a 15-year industrial quarry licence agreement with CIMERWA to boost cement production in the country. At the signing event, the govern...
Pacific Cement Pte Ltd completes mill repairs
Fijian Holdings Ltd (FHL) subsidiary, Pacific Cement Pte Ltd has completed commissioning works to repair its cement mill. The cement manufacturer had temporarily ceased...
Knauf Insulation plans GBP170m plant in north Wales
Knauf Insulation plans to invest GBP170m in a new manufacturing plant in Shotton, Deeside, north Wales.
Senegalese cement market contracts 12% in May
Cement sales in Senegal dropped 11.9 per cent YoY to 0.624Mt in May 2025 from 0.709Mt in the year-ago period, according to the country's Planning and Economic Policy Directorat...
Cargo ship's CO2 to be converted into green cement
A commercial carbon capture system developed for ships will supply calcium carbonate - limestone - to Heidelberg Materials’ cement plant in Brevik , Norway. UK-based startu...
Confidence Cement in Bangladesh sets 1QFY26 for new cement factory
Confidence Cement in Bangladesh has announced an investment of approximately BDT8.15bn (US$6.1m) to construct a new cement factory near the capital, Dhaka. This initiative a...
Carribean Cement optimises capacity increase
Caribbean Cement Co Ltd 's Managing Director, Jorge Martinez, reported to the company’s shareholders that one month into the operation of the newly upgraded plant at Rockfort ...
Cimpor appoints new Alhandra director
Cimpor has appointed Mário Lopes as new director of the Alhandra plant. Mr Lopes has over 30 years’ experience in the cement sector, starting his career at Cimpor in 1991 a...
Cemex supplies circular economy concrete from recycled aggregates to Caen University Hospital
Cemex supplied nearly 35,000m3 of Vertua concrete incorporating recycled aggregates from its Caen Blainville plant to the new Caen University Hospital.
MKM rolls out fully recycled bulk bags in industry first
MKM Building Supplies has become the first in the industry to roll out bulk bags made from 100 per cent recycled material, according to a company statement.
Shree Cement announces 6MW solar facility for Roorkee
Indian cement producer Shree Cement has commissioned a 6MW solar power plant at its Roorkee unit in Uttarakhand, adjacent to its existing cement operations. The Roorkee pl...
Boral's Berrima plant celebrates alternative fuel landmark
Boral ’s Berrima Cement Works celebrated a milestone this week as more than 100,000t of alternative fuels were used at the cement plant in the FY25, processed through the a...
Cemex makes management cuts to optimise costs
Cemex , Latin America's largest cement company, has announced cuts to its corporate management staff as part of a cost optimisation plan, according to Mexico’s Reforma newspap...
Kinshasa cement prices fall 52%
The price of cement in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has dropped by 52.3 per cent from US$21 to US$11/bag three weeks after the end of the strike by tr...
NCCC launches UNOGAS MK3 solvent testing
A significant step forward in carbon capture is underway at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC), operated by Southern Co, where KC8 Capture Technologies’ (KC8) advanced ...
Martin Engineering appoints Australian MD
Bulk material handling specialists, Martin Engineering has announced the hiring of Darren Gilbert as managing director of the Australian Business unit. A native of Newcastle,...
Bolivian market expands 20% in May
Bolivia’s cement consumption advanced 20.2 per cent to 381,160t in May 2025 from 317,227t in the year-ago period, according to the country’s National Statistics Institute (INE)...
Ramco Cements makes INR240m from sales of non-core assets
Ramco Cements Ltd has announced the sale of non-core assets worth INR240.5m (US$2.8m) as part of its ongoing monetisation drive. The disposal includes INR197.7m from divestin...
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