US Govt cancels US$500m subsidy for California cement plant
President Trump’s administration has announced the cancellation of a US$500m grant awarded in December for a cement plant conversion in Kern County, California, which was plan...
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Misr Qena sees six-fold profit jump
Misr Cement Qena Co posted a 45.3 per cent increase in net sales to EGP1.824bn (US$36.69m) in the 1Q25 from EGP1.255bn in the equivalent period of the previous year. The comp...
Holcim prepares Amrize for spin-off in June
Holcim has received key approvals to complete the 100 per cent spin-off of its North American business to be named Amrize, with trading expected to commence on 23 June 2025. ...
Arabian Cement sees 32% hike in 1Q sales
Arabian Cement Co reported a 287 per cent increase in consolidated net profits after tax of EGP590.37m (US$11.9m) in the 1Q25 from EGP152.64m in the 1Q24. The rise in pro...
Holcim participates in Plastics2Olefins project
Holcim is exploring the use of char as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels in cement manufacturing. As part of the Plastics2Olefins (P20) project, the company is testing ...
South Valley Cement losses deepen
South Valley Cement saw a 101 per cent rise in sales to EGP660.198m (US$13.3m) in the 1Q25 from EGP328.379m in the 1Q24. However, the company increased its losses after ...
New President of the Institute of Concrete Technology (ICT) is appointed
Ecocem 's Director of Concrete Technology Deployment, John Reddy, has been appointed as president of the Institute of Concrete Technology (ICT), the international professional...
UltraTech acquires Wonder WallCare
Wonder WallCare became a wholly-owned subsidiary of UltraTech on 29 May 2025.
Specifiers require better embodied carbon data from building materials producers
While awareness of sustainable construction practices continues to grow, a report by NBS underlines a pressing need for more consistent, transparent, and high-quality sustainabi...
Mexican president agrees on prices with steel and cement companies
Mexican President, Claudia Sheinbaum, has agreed on preferential prices with cement and steel companies for the materials to be used for the Housing for Wellbeing programme.
Cemex invests in electric ready-mix trucks in EMEA region
Cemex is making additional investments in new electric ready-mix trucks for its EMEA supply chain to reduce the company's carbon footprint.
St-Gobain UK to build low-carbon insulation plant
St-Gobain UK has announced a multi-million pound investment in a new low-carbon stone wool insulation plant at the former Holwell Foundry Works in Melton Mowbray. When at full c...
Power cuts shut down half of Iranian concrete plants
Unscheduled power outages have forced approximately 50 per cent of ready-mix concrete production plants in Iran to close, according to the Secretary of the Ready-Mixed Concrete ...
Holcim's GO4ZERO project a year on
This week, Holcim has announced the groundbreaking for its OLYMPUS carbon capture project in Milaki cement plant in Greece. It's one of 17 flagship carbon capture utilisation ...
Holcim breaks ground on OLYMPUS
Holcim has broken ground at the state-of-the-art OLYMPUS project at its Milaki cement plant in Greece. The EUR400m project is engineered to produce 2Mta of near-zero cement fro...
Cementir Holding divests its Kars cement plant in Turkey
Cementir Holding NV has announced its intention to sell the Kars cement plant in Turkey, currently jointly-owned by two of its subsidiaries. Çimentas AS and Alfacem Sr...
Monarch Cement's solar plant officially opens
Monarch Cement has formally inaugurated its 97-acre solar facility with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on 23 May at its plant in Humboldt, Kansas. The project, first announ...
Kyrgyz authorities seek cement reclassification
The Kyrgyz Ministry of Economy and Commerce has published a justification for its decision to include cement on the list of socially significant goods. The designation allows t...
Pakistan sets to see a positive trend in dispatches in May 2025
In May 2025 the Pakistani cement industry is set to experience a notable surge in dispatches. According to recent findings from Topline Pakistan Research, local cement dispatch...
Microsoft to buy 600,000t of green cement from Sublime Systems
Microsoft has announced an agreement with US-based company Sublime Systems to buy more than 600,000t of green cement as part of its efforts to both reduce its carbon footprint...
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