Indian cement sector to add 21.2Mta by the end of 2013
Project completions in India are expected to proceed at a brisk pace in the 2H12-13. In the cement sector, 21.2Mt of additional production capacity has been lined up for comple...
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Dangote Cement could tip the balance to oversupply in East Africa
Plans by Dangote Cement to set up a manufacturing plant in Tanzania have complicated expansion plans for Kenyan firms that have dominated exports of the commodity into the East...
South Africa: PPC eyes African cement growth
As South Africa entered a potentially slow growth year, rising cement demand in the rest of Africa presented strong growth opportunities for Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC), sai...
Titan records a turnover of €847m for 9M12
Titan Group's turnover for the first nine months of 2012 stood at €847m, posting a 1% increase compared to the same period in 2011. Earnings before EBITDA declined by 27%, reac...
Venezuela produces more than 8Mt of cement
From October 2011 to October this year, Venezuelan cement companies produced 8.295Mt of cement, the highest annualised output in the country’s history, according to Entorno Int...
Hike in Algeria’s cement import bill
Cement imports into Algeria rocketed by 86 per cent in terms of value during the first nine months of 2012, rising from US$102.1m to US$190.4m, said the National Centre of Info...
Oman: Duqm quarry sites identified
Plans to build a multi-million rial cement plant in Oman's northern city of Al Duqm is progressing, with the promoters started identifying potential limestone quarry sites. T...
Sri Lanka: Lanka Cement to establish a grinding and packing plant
Lanka Cement PLC says, it is planning to establish a joint venture with international cement manufactures to set up a grinding and packing plant in the Northern province of Sri...
Kenya: Bamburi Cement commissions a new baghouse
Lafarge's Bamburi Cement has commissioned a KES540m kiln baghouse to eliminate dust emissions and save energy during production. This is part of the group’s Environmental Susta...
USA: PCA calls for congress to avert the 'fiscal cliff'
Now that USA’s leadership for the next four years has been determined, construction interests are challenging Congress and the Obama administration to get to work on addressing...
Expansion: FCC profit falls 77% YoY in 9 months
Spanish construction and services group FCC received a net profit of €40.1m for January-September 2012, falling 77.5% on the year. Analysts polled by Reuters expected a €80m pr...
Italcementi awards Rezzato cement upgrade to KHD
The Italcementi Group recently awarded KHD a contract to upgrade and redevelop its Brescia Rezzato plant in Italy. The upgraded plant, situated the in environmentally sensitive...
A raft of support for wildlife at new CEMEX nature reserve
A new nature reserve is being created at a former CEMEX quarry and landfill site in Rugby, Warwickshire, UK. CEMEX UK initiated this imaginative restoration project in 2010 wit...
Vulcan's cement losses drastically reduced
Vulcan Materials' turnover for the first nine months recovered by 0.5 per cent to US$1958.9m, while the EBITDA declined by 15.7 per cent to US$286.8m. The trading profit before...
Raysut sees 62 per cent jump in pretax profit, Oman
Oman’s leading cement producer Raysut Cement, reported a 62 per cent rise in pretax profit for the first nine months of 2012 due to higher sales and better price realisations. ...
FCC to provide loan to Cementos Portland by year-end, Spain
Spanish builder FCC is expected to extend a EUR100m (US$127.3m) loan to its cement subsidiary Cementos Portland by end-December, according to reports in local paper Expansion. ...
Saudi Cement announces new grinding investment, Saudi Arabia
Saudi cement producer Saudi Cement Company (SCC) is to replace three old cement mills with two new ones. The old mills have a grinding capacity of 360tph, while the new mills ...
EBRD mulls loan to Lafarge Serbia
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Friday it is considering providing EUR58m (US$75m) in financing to Serbian cement producer Lafarge Beocinska...
UK: construction output at lowest level for more than 10 years
The latest construction output figures from ONS published on Friday show that output in 3Q has fallen for the fifth consecutive quarter, with falls being experienced across alm...
Oracle signs MoU with Thatta for coal supply, Pakistan
Oracle Coalfields PLC, the UK coal developer of a lignite mineral property located in the southeastern desert of the Sindh Province, Pakistan, signed a Memorandum of Understand...
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