FLSmidth to open equipment plant in eastern Pennsylvania
FLSmidth Cement is set to open a new 13,330m 2 equipment plant in Allentown, eastern Pennsylvania, USA, for the manufacture and assembly of cement pneumatic transport equipmen...
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Dalmia Cements co-processes 1400t of Tiruchi plastic waste
Dalmia Cement is co-processing 1473t of plastics from Tiruchi City Corp at its Dalmiapuram plant in Tamil Nadu, India. The segregated single-use plastics, including sna...
Brazil's cement market expands 5% in March
Cement sales in Brazil increased 5.2 per cent YoY to 5.265Mt in March 2025 from 5.006Mt in March 2024, according to the national cement association, SNIC. On the basis of worki...
Ecocem awarded EU funding to develop electric arc furnace slag cement
A consortium led by Ecocem has been awarded EUR4m in research funding as apart of the EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2024, funded by the EU's Horizon Europe programme. The grant w...
Calderys makes significant progress at its major Indian greenfield project
Refractory supplier Calderys has reached a first crucial milestone at the Calderys plant in east and south India (CAPES) with the successful trial of the acidic monolithic refr...
Swiss cement sales slowly recovering
Cement sales are slowly recovering in Switzerland. Deliveries rose 0.7 per cent YoY to 792,266t in the first quarter of 2025, up from 786,433t in the same quarter of 2024. Ceme...
CRH reports drop in CO2e emissions in 2024
CRH has continued to reduce its CO 2 e emissions while delivering significant business growth. CRH’s recently released 2024 Sustainability Report states that in 2024 the group’...
World’s first VTG iWagon enters service for Heidelberg Materials UK
The first operational freight wagons to be equipped with VTG Rail UK Ltd’s iWagon technology entered service on the UK’s rail network on 7 April 2025, marking a significant mil...
Morocco’s cement market contracts 13% in March
Cement deliveries by APC members Asment Témara , Ciments de l’Atlas , Ciments du Maroc , LafargeHolcim Maroc and Novacim in Morocco declined by 12.8 per cent YoY to 896,...
Cemvision and S:t Eriks in green cement supply agreement
Swedish companies Cemvision and construction materials supplier S:t Eriks have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for the supply of green cement for next-generation water and sewa...
Carbon capture at Padeswood gets a step nearer
Heidelberg Materials UK has been granted planning permission to build a carbon capture plant (CCP) at its Padeswood cement works in north Wales, marking a major milestone f...
Senegalese cement market contracts 7% in February
Demand for cement declined by 6.6 per cent YoY to 589,600t in Senegal in February 2025 from 631,600t in February 2024, according to data published by Senegal’s Planning and Eco...
Bangladesh experiences a persistent export fall in 9MFY25
Bangladesh experienced a 28.9 per cent YoY drop in cement export revenue, totalling US$10.31m in the 9MFY24-25 (July 2024-March 2025), down from US$14.5m during the same period...
Weak start to 2025 for US cement sales
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports, in the US and Puerto Rico amounted to 5.729Mt in January, down 3.1 per cent YoY from the 5.914Mt recorded in ...
Peruvian cement deliveries up 5% in February
Domestic cement dispatches in Peru advanced 4.6 per cent YoY to 0.942Mt in February 2025 when compared with the year-ago period, when dispatches reached 0.901Mt, according to t...
InterCement bankruptcy proceedings and 2024 financial results
InterCement Participações SA has informed the market that on 1 April 2025, the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York entered an order granting recognition...
Holcim Costa Rica requests Coprocom authorisation to purchase AMCO plants
Holcim Costa Rica is planning to buy two ready-mix concrete and aggregate plants from América Construcciones SA.
Thatta Cement Co commissions wind power project early
Pakistan based Thatta Cement Co Ltd reported it has commissioned the 4.8MW wind power project at its Thatta plant in Makli, Sindh, on 4 April 2025. The project was complete...
Amrize completes US$3.4bn bond offering ahead of spin-off
Amrize, part of Holcim, has successfully completed a US$3.4bn bond offering. The bond offering was more than four times oversubscribed, reflecting strong investor interest ...
Bedeschi delivers cement carrier to Medcem Cement Group
Medcem Cement Group successfully received the world's largest cement carrier, MV NACC New Yorker, at Medcem Port, delivered by Bedeschi SpA, Italy. Bedeschi supplied two d...
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