Cement industry news

14 Jul 2009 Trading

Egypt’s Suez Cement begins importing clinker

Suez Cement, one of Egypt’s largest listed cement makers, plans to begin importing clinker and bagged

14 Jul 2009 Corporate

New capacity ’key to Lafarge India plans’

Lafarge is planning to nearly double the revenue contribution of its Indian subsidiary to 8% over the next

14 Jul 2009 Corporate

Yamama profit drops 27%, Saudi Arabia

Yamama Saudi Cement Co said on Monday its 2009 second-quarter net profit dropped 27 per cent to

14 Jul 2009 International

Fiji: cement supply to normalise soon

Cement supply in Fiji will normalise from next week, says Josese Daveta, general manager of

14 Jul 2009 International

Two Ethiopian factories resume production

The Ministry of Work and Urban Development (MoWUD) on Friday confirmed that both Muger and Mesebo cement factories

14 Jul 2009 Corporate

Tabuk Cement Q2 net profit tumbles 45%

Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk Cement Co said on Monday its 2009 second-quarter net profit dropped 45 per cent

14 Jul 2009 Environmental

Opposition to Lafarge greenfield plant, India

Environmentalists and residents of Karsog valley came out in large numbers to oppose setting up of a

14 Jul 2009 International

Heidelberg Cement attempts to divest from Israeli holdings

Hanson Israel owns and operates a quarry on Palestinian land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where

13 Jul 2009 International

More jobs to go at Barrington cement works, UK

Cemex has announced that there will be more redundancies in its logistics section, based at the Barrington

13 Jul 2009 International

BaselCement’s Achinsk new line launched

BaselCement has launched cement production of a second line with the capacity of 700,000tpa at

13 Jul 2009 International

Egypt hopes to increase cement supplies

Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry are taking new measures to increase the supply of cement in the

13 Jul 2009 Environmental

Cemex Knoxville award

The Cemex Cement plant in Knoxville has received the Land Stewardship Award from

13 Jul 2009 Corporate

Qassim Cement mulls 100 per cent bonus shares

The Qassim Cement Company of Saudi Arabia is planing to offer shareholders one bonus share for each

13 Jul 2009 International

Cement, prices dip in June, UAE

The prices of cement and steel products have fallen by up to 17.6 per cent and 10 per cent respectively in

13 Jul 2009 Corporate

Southern Cement 2Q net falls 7.8% , Saudi Arabia

Southern Cement made a net profit of SAR212m ($56.53m) in the three months to June 30, down from

13 Jul 2009 International

PCA: world consumption to decline 1.7% in 2009

World cement consumption is expected to decline 1.7 per cent in 2009, a modest drop that is cushioned by a roughly four per cent growth in utilisation by China and India, accord...

13 Jul 2009 Corporate

Sunway declines comment on HeidelbergCement buy

Sunway Holdings Bhd has declined comment on talk that the company is bidding to acquire the local

13 Jul 2009 International

Bamburi Plant On Course, Kenya

Listed firm Bamburi Cement’s 480,000t new capacity in the Uganda plant will start operations in the

10 Jul 2009 International

KKR learns the hard way in China

Two years ago, US private equity powerhouse Kohlberg Kravis Roberts took the plunge in China –

10 Jul 2009 International

UK construction market shows sharp declines

According to the latest forecast from the Construction Products Association, a London-based group