Pakistan July dispatches decline
Pakistan dispatches in the first month of the current fiscal saw a decline of 1.64 per cent compared to July 2011, according to data from the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers ...
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Saudi Cement increases output
Saudi Cement Company announced that it has restarted Kiln No 6 on Monday which has a capacity of 35000tpd and an actual capacity that could reach a maximum of 4000tpd of clinke...
Bangladesh industry consolidation gathers pace
Cement sector consolidation in the Bangladesh industry is set to gather pace as more than 70 smaller cement factories have folded operations in the past 12 years having lost gr...
Dominican Republic exports increase
The Dominican Association of Portland Cement Manufacturers (Adocem) said today that so far this year, cement exports to other markets increased by 34.2 per cent over the same p...
Cement Industry Group of Algeria to build two new plants
The Cement Industry Group of Algeria (Gica), which recently announced it plans to 450,000t of cement, will begin the construction of two cement plants with a total capacity of ...
Construction contraction causes continuing consternation
The latest UK Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that during the second quarter of 2012 construction suffered another sharp fall across all parts of the industry ...
Buzzi Unicem improves profit at lower volumes
Buzzi Unicem’s first half turnover edged ahead by 0.9 per cent to €1,350.9m, but the EBITDA recovered by 7.7 per cent to €197.2m. For the full year Buzzi Unicem is maintaining ...
CMS plans to invest in third Sarawak cement plant, Malaysia
CMS Bhd (CMSB) plans to invest in a third cement plant to meet the growing demand in Sarawak. Group managing director Datuk Richard Curtis said the new facility, which would h...
Siam City Cement 2Q net profit falls, Thailand
Siam City Cement Plc (SCCC), Thailand's second-largest cement producer, reported a 30.5 per cent drop in 2Q net profit although sales increased by more than 12 per cent as ope...
Holcim Philippines to construct waste heat facility
Holcim Philippines will construct a waste-to-energy facility to reduce the demand for coal as a cement plant fuel in Davao City. Roland Van Wijnen, chief operations officer of...
CRH closing in on Jaiprakash cement stake - report
CRH is reported close to picking up 51 per cent stake in Jaiprakash Associates' cement operations in Gujarat at an enterprise value of about INR4200 crore, the Economic Times o...
Eight Pakistan factories issued with environmental notices
The Environment Protection Department (EPD) has issued notices to eight cement factories across the Punjab over the last week for failing to install devices to mitigate dust po...
European cement majors: first half trends
The last week has seen three leading European cement majors release first-half 2012 results: Lafarge, HeidelbergCement and Italcementi. The latest figures appear to confirm the...
Semen Gresik plans name change to raise its profile, Indonesia
State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said Indonesian state-owned Semen Gresik is set to change its name to Semen Indonesia in a bid to raise the company’s international prof...
PCA: Congressional uncertainty could curtail future growth
With the first half of 2012 experiencing favorable weather conditions, gains in residential and nonresidential construction activity and robust gains in cement intensities, the...
Dangote Cement pretax profit rises, Nigeria
Nigeria’s leading producer Dangote Cement said on Thursday its pretax profit for the first half grew by 23 per cent YoY to NGN71.3bn (US$443m), from NGN58.1bn last year. Turno...
Eagle improves in both cement & plasterboard, USA
In the first quarter of its financial year to 31 March 2012, Eagle Materials’ turnover, including its share of the Texas Lehigh cement joint venture, rose by 25.9 per cent to U...
Bamburi first-half pretax profit falls, Kenya
Kenya’s leading cement producer Bambur Cement posted a 12.86 per cent fall in pretax profit for the first half of this year to KES3.7bn (US$43.89m), hurt by financing costs tha...
Barcelona cement and clinker exports rise
Cement and clinker exports from the Port of Barcelona have increased by 435 per cent during the first half of this year from a low base. A total of 684,255t of volumes were ...
Madras Cement net profit rises 25%, India
Madras Cements Ltd said on Thursday it earned a net profit of INR123.01 crore for the quarter ended June 2012 as against INR98.30 crore it earned in the corresponding quarter l...
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