UK: Southern Cement buys its own shipunloader
Southern Cement, which is based at the Port of Ipswich and was established 10 years ago, imports around 160,000tpa of bulk and bagged cement products to supply to building firm...
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Uganda: new plant to lower cement prices
Kuwaiti-based, Dao Group plans to put up a third cement factory in Uganda to compete with Hima Cement in Kasese district and Tororo Cement in Tororo district. The company has b...
Thai firm secures plant deal in Myanmar
Thailand’s largest cement company is scheduled to begin construction of a cement plant in Myanmar’s southern Tenasserim, Taninthayi Division next year, according to a report in...
US September shipments dip YoY
Total shipments of portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico for September 2012 were about 7Mt, slightly less than September 2011, figures from the US Ge...
Lafarge Malayan Cement warns of weak 4Q
Lafarge Malayan Cement said it expects the fourth quarter to be weak as demand has been impacted by the rainy season. At a briefing last Friday, the company said its recent u...
China cement prices see second consecutive weekly decline
The average price of cement price in China continued to decline in the last week in November, showing a drop of 0.72 per cent on the previous week and marking the second consec...
Thailand's Siam Group to establish Banten cement plant, Indonesia
Thailand’s largest cement producer Siam Cement Group plans to establish a cement plant in the Lebak district of Indonesia, Banten province, according to media reports. Banten i...
Bosowa aims for larger slice of Indonesian market
The Bosowa Corporation is planning to invest around IDR3trn in its cement activities to gain a greater share of the thriving Indonesian market. Speaking to the Jakarta Post, ...
Pakistan cement prices rise by PKR5/bag
Cement prices in Pakistan have increased by PKR5/50kg bag to PKR440-445 (~US$4.6) in various areas of the country, the Pakistan Observer reports. The rise is being attribut...
Iran’s cement capacity reaches 86Mta
Iran’s cement production capacity is currently 86Mta, according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Speaking at the sidelines of an inauguration ceremony, Mr Ahmadinej...
Jaiprakash may not meet asset sale target – Kim Eng
Jaiprakash Associates may not meet its target of raising INR50bn via a sale of its plants in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh states, according to analysis by Asian securities and i...
China Resources Cement secures HK$1bn credit facility
China Resources Cement Holdings Ltd, the largest cement producer in South China, said that it has secured a three-year credit facility worth up to HK$1bn from a bank.
HeidelbergCement commissions new grinding plant in Ghana
HeidelbergCement has commissioned a new cement mill with a 1Mta capacity at its Tema cement grinding plant in Ghana. HeidelbergCement’s new 1Mta grinding mill in Tema, G...
Mozambique is Cimpor’s star performer
For the first nine months of 2012, Cimpor’s cement and clinker shipments were 9.4 per cent lower at 18.82Mt, as volumes dropped by just over one -third both in Spain and China ...
Lucky Cement not to build cement plant in India
Pakistan’s leading cement manufacturer and exporter Lucky Cement Ltd has officially informed the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) that it is not establishing a cement plant in Indi...
Eurocement announces new expansion project, Russia
Russia's leading cement producer Eurocement plans to invest around RUB12bn (US$387.7m) to build a dry-process line at its Nevyansky Tsementnik plant in the Sverdlovsk Region, t...
Adelaide Brighton signs agreements with Japanese suppliers
Adelaide Brighton has entered into two clinker import supply agreements with Japanese suppliers. These agreements secure a significant part of this requirement from the Japanes...
FLSmidth CEO to retire in 2013, Denmark
Jørgen Huno Rasmussen, age 60, Group CEO of FLSmidth & Co A/S since 2003, is to retire in mid-2013, 10 years after agreeing to join FLSmidth as Group CEO. Following news of M...
Dalmia Cement buys additional stake in Calcom
Dalmia Bharat Enterprises has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that its subsidiary, Dalmia Cement (Bharat) has approved acquisition of additional 26 per cent stake in Calcom ...
Pakistan: APCMA demands checks on smuggling of Iranian cement
The All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) has requested the government take measures to stop the smuggling of Iranian cement into the country to safeguard the ...
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