Adelaide Brighton acquires 30% in Malaysian white cement producer
Adelaide Brighton Limited has entered into an agreement to acquire 30 per cent of white cement producer Aalborg Portland Malaysia Sdn Bhd (APM). The acquisition price for th...
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Gloria Group plans US$250-300m cement plant investment in Cusco
The Gloria Group, which controls Cementos Yura and Industrias Cachimayo, plans to build a new cement plant in Cusco, southeastern Peru, to meet the demand of an expanding marke...
UltraTech Cement eyes Jaypee's Gujarat operations
India's largest cement producer UltraTech Cement is understood to be in talks with Jaypee Group for the latter's business in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Local press have reported th...
Gebr Pfeiffer wins Iraq grinding order
Sinoma (Suzhou) Construction, acting as general contractor for GRD Cement Plant Company Tainall’s new kiln line, has once again placed an order for an MPS 5000 B vertical rolle...
Steppe Cement's share offer oversubscribed
Kazakhstan-based cement producer Steppe Cement has announced that last month's offer for qualifying shareholders of 40m new shares in at 25p per share has been oversubscribed. ...
India sees weak November pricing environment
Indian cement prices saw corrections in most regions in November, with the central, eastern and northern areas witnessing the steepest falls, the Economic Times of India report...
RINL to pursue grinding project, India
State-owned steel maker Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) is set to proceed with a joint venture cement grinding unit, to make use of the slag generated by blast furnaces and fl...
Cemex leads the charge on US pricing
Cemex is planning two incremental cement price increases in January and April 2013 in a bid to reverse the "chronic under-pricing of cement in the US", says Karl Watson, presid...
Enhancing kiln control
The major costs of clinker production are incurred in kiln pyro-processing, so it’s no surprise that this part of the process received more attention than any other. To-date, t...
Lafarge to build new Rio de Janiero works, Brazil
Lafarge announced on Thursday that it is to construct a second cement plant in Rio de Janeiro to better serve expected increases in demand fuelled by the 2014 Wor...
Gresik eyes tie-up with Semen Baturaja, Indonesia
Semen Gresik CEO Dwi Soetjipto has expressed an interest in synergising with another state-owned cement producer, Semen Baturaja, according to local press reports. "We see tha...
Vietnam Jan-Nov 2012 production declines
Vietnam produced 51.3Mt of cement in the first 11 months of this year, down 5.4 per cent from a year earlier, the General Statistics Office said. The country’s cement output...
Bamburi Cement appoints director, Kenya
Bamburi Cement has appointed John Simba as a director. The effective date is November 29, 2012.
Indonesian full-year demand set to beat expectations
Indonesian cement demand is seen closing this year 12 per cent ahead of 2011 figures, above previous expectations of eight per cent, but growth next year is likely to be imped...
UK consolidates impressive environmental performance in 2011
The UK cement industry today published its environmental performance results to the end of 2011 in a new interim sustainable development report. Building on its strong track r...
Udaypur Cement halts production, India
The Udaypur Cement factory in India has halted operations since last week because coal deliveries have been stopped, according to local press reports. The Himalayan newspaper...
PT Semen Baturaja IPO set for Feb 2013, Indonesia
Indonesian state-owned producer PT Semen Baturaja expects to list its shares on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in February 2013. Semen Baturaja has been ready to release a maxim...
Lucky Cement eyes Sri Lanka grinding project
Pakistan’s largest cement producer Lucky Cement is considering the construction of a 500,000tpa grinding plant in Sri Lanka as part of its plan to expand its presence overseas....
CRH looks for new Nesher Cement CEO
CRH is reviewing the candidacy of Moshe Kaplinsky for the position of CEO of Nesher Cement Enterprises following the departure of Joel Feldschuh announced earlier this week. Mr...
New laboratory automation system for Wotan Zement, Germany
For the quality monitoring and control of their cement products, Portlandzementwerk Wotan decided to install a new laboratory automation system from ThyssenKrupp Polysius. A...
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