Carbon Limit launches heat-reducing SCM
US climate technology company Carbon Limit launched its CoolCrete™, a heat-reducing product addition to its range of sustainable concrete additives. The product has been design...
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Pakistan's cement export volume rose amid lesser revenue in 2MFY24-25
Pakistan’s cement and clinker exports dropped by 16.9 per cent in the first two months of the current financial year 2024-25 to US$36.70m (992,026t) from US$39.64m (981,400t) i...
COP28 initiative says low demand for green products is deterring investment
Low demand for green products is deterring the necessary investment of up to US$700bn in low-carbon projects within carbon-intensive industries such as steel, aluminium and cem...
CSN looks to buy InterCement's Loma Negra
InterCement Participações , the indirect controlling shareholder of the cement producer Loma Negra in Argentina, agreed to a new exclusivity period in favour of Companhia Si...
Peruvian market shows stability in August
Peruvian cement dispatches in August 2024 remained stable at 1.101Mt when compared with August 2023, reports the country's cement association, Asocem. Of this total, 1.005Mt wa...
Holcim invests in Sublime Systems in low-carbon tech scale-up
Holcim has invested in Sublime Systems, a leading low-carbon cement technology start-up, to expand its range of highly-engineered solutions to decarbonise building at scale, ac...
Confidence Cement to issue rights shares
Bangladesh cement producer Confidence Cement PLC has decided to issue rights shares to raise BDT1.29bn (US$m10.78m) for investment in an associate company named Confidence Ce...
Cemex introduces new anti-humidity cement
Cemex introduced a new water-repellent cement product that the company hopes will extend the life of construction sites. The product is a specialised, anti-humidity cement. ...
Indonesian cement market stable in August
Cement sales in Indonesia amounted to 6.117Mt in August. This is an increase of 0.1 per cent YoY compared to the 6.111Mt reported a year earlier. Regional sales remain a mix...
JK Cement plans to invest INR30bn in capacity expansion
India-based building materials manufacturer, JK Cement , has announced plans to invest INR30bn (US$358.4m) to increase its capacity by 25 per cent, from 24Mta to 30Mta by the ...
Pioneer Cement reports 98% surge in full-year net profit
Pakistan-based Pioneer Cement Ltd , reported revenue of PKR35.52bn (US$127.7m) in the FY23-24 ended 30 June 2024. This represents a drop of 1.8 per cent when compared with PKR...
Calderys invests in a single-site greenfield plant in India
Calderys is building a new refractory plant in Bhuinpur, Khordha district, Odisha, India. Known as ‘Capes’ (Calderys Plant in East and South India), the project is a strategic ...
InterCement Participações SA files restructuring plan to Brazilian courts
InterCement Participações SA (InterCement) has submitted a restructuring plan together with its subsidiaries, InterCement Brasil SA, InterCement Financial Operations BV, In...
Cement demand in Panama contracts 3% in January-July 2024
Cement consumption in Panama was down 3.1 per cent to 752,427t in the January-July 2024 period from 776,126t in the 7M23, according to INEC, Panama’s national institute of stat...
Raw materials for burner tips in short supply
FivesPillard, cement industry burner manufacturer, has announced that the availability of high grade stainless steel has decreased to the extent that burner tip manufacturing f...
Claimants still want civil cases brought against Lafarge Syria
A report in The Guardian newspaper suggests that the US$778m fine imposed on Lafarge by the Justice Department over the payments the cement producer made to IS in Syria, so tha...
Latin American and Caribbean cement sector targets net zero by 2050
The Federacion Interamerica del Cemento (FICEM) has opened the doors to the annual 2024 Technical Congress, a three-day conference and exhibition, taking place in the historic ...
Sinoma Overseas to build Votorantim Z02 grinding plant
Sinoma Overseas has secured an engineering and supply contract for the Z02 cement grinding station project in Edealina Brazil, along with a technical cooperation framework ag...
New production line in Vietnam
Thanh Thang Cement Group has launched the fifth production line in Vietnam’s northern province, Ha Nam, with a capacity of 2.3Mta, with an output of 6000tpd. The new line featu...
DG Khan Cement posts a profit of PKR542m in FY23-24
DG Khan Cement Co Ltd (DGKC) reported its financial results for FY23-24 on the Pakistan Stock Exchange website on 16 September. The company posted a profit of PKR542m (US$1.9...
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