Cambodia's cement industry produces nearly 7Mta in 10M24
The Cambodian Cement Manufacturing Association (CCMA) has reported that the cement industry in the country produced 6.84Mt of cement in the 10M24, up two per cent when compared...
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Overproduction triggers blast at North Korea’s Mt Purae cement plant
An explosion at the Mount Purae cement plant in South Hamgyong province, North Korea, has temporarily halted operations, and raised concerns over safety and production practi...
Brevik CCS project now ready for commissioning
Heidelberg Materials’ Brevik carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has successfully achieved mechanical completion on schedule. The milestone sees the installation of all ma...
Arabian Cement Co signs contract for Rabigh power project
Arabian Cement Co informed the local Saudi exchange on 1 December about the signing of an agreement with the National Electricity Transmission Co, a subsidiary of Saudi Elect...
Nacala plant commissions new 3000tpd kiln line
Ciments de Moçambique ( Huaxin Cement group ) has celebrated the commissioning of the new kiln line at the Nacala plant , with a production capacity of 3000tpd. The c...
Bruks Siwertell to deliver advanced unloader to Incheon Northport
Bruks Siwertell has secured an order for its next-generation Siwertell 10 000 S road-mobile ship unloader from South Korea’s Incheon Northport Multipurpose Terminal. The unload...
PPC Zimbabwe warns of US$50m forex loss from cement imports
PPC Zimbabwe has warned that continued cement imports could cost the country US$50m annually in scarce foreign currency. The company's Managing Director, Albert Sigei, highli...
Limak Cement commissions roller press at Kilis plant
Limak Cement, Türkiye's leading cement producer, has successfully commissioned a new roller press at its Kilis cement plant in a record time of approximately 10 months, overc...
Cherat Packaging's revenue slides
Cherat Packaging Ltd has reported that decreased demand from the cement industry is impacting its business. According to the company’s July-September 2024 quarter (1QFY24-25) f...
Colombian cement market contracts 4% in October
Cement dispatches in Colombia declined by 3.6 per cent YoY in October 2024 to 1.074Mt from 1.114Mt in October 2023, reports the country’s statistics agency, DANE. Bagged cement...
Holcim to sell Lafarge Africa PLC to Huaxin Cement
Holcim has signed an agreement with Huaxin Cement Ltd to sell its entire 83.81 per cent shareholding in Lafarge Africa PLC , at an equity value of US$1bn on a 100 per cent...
UltraTech Cement de-bottlenecks Kukurdih plant
As part of its ongoing capacity expansion programmes, UltraTech Cement has identified an opportunity for debottlenecking at its integrated unit at Kukurdih, Chhattisgarh. ...
Premier Cement Mills reports lower revenue in 1QFY24-25
Premier Cement Mills PLC of Bangladesh recently announced its financial results for the July-September 2024 quarter (1QFY24-25). The company’s profit for the quarter fell to ...
Oil is stable while coal falls back and petcoke sees lows with discounts slipping
Following Donald Trump’s win in the US presidential elections the energy markets already reacted on several fronts in anticipation of new US policies. An increase in US product...
Bangladesh imports of clinker slide in FY24
Bangladesh's cement industry has seen fluctuations in clinker imports over the past two years. According to data from the Bangladesh Central Bank, the country imported clinker ...
Global carbon market - a new era?
Regional cement conferences held over the last month from Tunisia to Turkey, Duesseldorf to New Delhi, have offered a timely opportunity to compare and contrast sentiment in th...
Mississippi Lime Co withdraws from Bío Bío acquisition
USA-based Mississippi Lime Co has stepped back from purchasing a stake in Chilean cement producer Cementos Bío Bío (CBB) . This will enable Yura Chile, part of Peru's Gloria ...
Cemento Melón sees net loss in 9M24
Cemento Melón posted a 2.1 YoY per cent drop in revenue to CLP180,309.39m (US$184.3m) in the 9M24. Operating costs increased by 6.8 per cent YoY to CLP133,468.444m, driven...
EUA prices still under pressure but above key EUR60 level, awaiting US policies in 2025
Fluctuations in TTF gas prices and coal have been the main factors driving the market, where prices have now been ranging between EUR60-66. The US election result is expec...
Raysut Cement Co's operation impacted in 3Q24 amid oversupply
The Board of Directors of Raysut Cement Co of Oman has recently released the group's unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2024. Raysut Ceme...
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