Betolar granted CEM III/B accelerator patent
The materials technology company Betolar Plc has been granted a patent in Finland for an accelerator developed for the standard CEM III/B cement mixture. This innovation accele...
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Vietnamese cement market contracts 4% in July
Cement sales in Vietnam fell four per cent YoY and slipped two per cent MoM in July 2024 to 4,911,727t, according to the Vietnamese cement association, VNCA. Of this total, VIC...
Thatta Cement's profit ballooned by 502% in FY23-24
Thatta Cement Co Ltd of Pakistan announced its financial results for FY23-24 ended 30 June 2024, at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on 20 August 2024. It reported an increa...
Egyptian cement producers request 10% cut in production capacity
Several Egyptian cement companies have submitted requests to the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA), seeking renewal of the decision to cut production capacity by 10 per cent...
Mauritanian cement producers reminded of government-led pricing
Mauritania's Minister of Commerce and Tourism, Zeinebou Mint Hmednah, send a circular to the walis throughout the country to oblige traders to respect the government-led price ...
KHD commissions Pyrorotor® at Halla Cement
KHD Humboldt Wedag has successfully commissioned a second Pyrorotor ® alternative fuel reactor at Line 2 of Halla Cement Corp 's Okke plant in Gangneung-si, South Korea, in...
Dalmia Bharat Ltd shares 1H24 results
Dalmia Bharat Ltd has shared its financial results for the first half of 2024, ended 30 June 2024. The installed cement capacity on this date was 45.6Mta. Sales volume saw ...
Indian Supreme Court ruling assigns duties to mining operations
On 14 August 2024, the Supreme Court of India issued a ruling allowing states to impose taxation and royalties on minerals separately from government duties. The ruling also al...
Asia Cement (China) sees 1H revenue down 35%
In its unaudited results for the first half of 2024, Asia Cement (China) Holdings Corp reported a revenue of CNY2689.4m (US$377.1m), down 34.5 per cent from CNY4105.1m in the 1...
Semen Indonesia International clinker exports to Taiwan up 80%
PT Semen Indonesia International (SII) reported a significant increase in clinker exports to Taiwan in the first half of 2024. Clinker exports to Taiwan reached 0.564Mt, up 8...
Attock Cement sells additional stake in Iraq cement firm for US$5.85m
Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd, a Pakistan-based cement producer which manufactures ordinary Portland cement, sulphate-resistant cement, Falcon rock cement and Falcon block cement,...
Cement prices in Egypt up 20% in August
Cement prices in Egypt have increased by 20 per cent since the 1 August after cement producers reduced their production, said Ahmed El-Zeini, head of building materials at the ...
JSW Cement to launch IPO as it plans capacity expansion
On 16 August 2024, JSW Cement filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). According to the DRHP, JSW Cement plans to...
Carbon Limit appoints Gabriel Carrero as chief commercial officer
Carbon Limit, a US-based company supplying proprietary CO 2 -capturing technology to the concrete industry, has named Gabriel Carrero as its chief commercial officer (CCO). Mr ...
Sudden recession fear sends oil and equity markets lower – petcoke now offering higher discounts
By Frank O. Brannvoll, Brannvoll ApS, Denmark The major equity market decline at the start of August, initiated by an interest rate increase to 0.25 per cent by the Bank of ...
Danucem orders Mercedes electric trucks
Danucem ( CRH ) and its logistics company, TransPlus, have been testing the fully-electric Mercedes Benz eActros 300 truck in Slovakia. As transportation is a significant con...
Mangesh Verma appointed as CEO of Cimerwa
Cimerwa Plc, Rwanda’s largest cement producer, has announced the appointment of Mangesh Verma as its new CEO. Mr Verma is a former general manager of commercial and operatio...
Kyrgyzstan enforcing a six month import ban on range of cement
From 1 October Kyrgyzstan is enforcing a six-month road import ban on cement types including Portland, alumina and slag cements, according to a decree signed by Akylbek Japarov...
China steps up drive for alternative fuels
China’s cement industry is in line to receive a new raft of legislation designed to encourage the drive away from fossil fuels to alternative fuels. This month the governme...
US and Puerto Rico cement markets contract in May
In May 2024 the USA and Puerto Rico reported a total of 0.56Mt of Portland and blended cement shipments, down 8.2 per cent YoY, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). Th...
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