Al Jouf Cement signs contract for NEOM City cement supply
Al Jouf Cement Co has signed a SAR104.19m (US$27.7m) contract to sell cement to Webuild SpA for NEOM construction projects. The joint deal will last 41-months from the date o...
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Study finds by-products from lithium production can be used in cement production
A peer-reviewed study by the German Lithium Institute has found that by-products from Rock Tech’s lithium conversion process can also be used as additives for cement, replaci...
Breedon reports uptick in revenue in 1H24
Breedon Group has announced underlying revenue of GBP764.6m (US$985.9m) in the first half of 2024, up three per cent from GBP742.7m in the same period a year earlier. Accordi...
Nepal’s cement and clinker export triple to NPR3.85bn
Cement and clinker exports from Nepal tripled to NPR3.85bn (US$28.7m) in FY23-24 when compared with exports in the previous year. According to Department of Customs data expo...
PPC signs agreement with Sinoma
PPC has signed an agreement with Sinoma Overseas Development Corporation to transform PPC’s operations in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. According to Engineering News, ...
Pakistan's cement industry to meet greenhouse gas emissions challenge
Pakistan's cement industry's focus on reducing emissions from clinker production and improving energy efficiency, while considering alternative fuels and materials is seen as m...
YTL Cement to acquire NSL
Malaysian cement producer, YTL Cement, has agreed to acquire Singapore-based NSL for MYR792m (US$169.5m). According to Business Today, NSL is principally involved in the prov...
Saurashtra Cement publishes increase in revenue
Saurashtra Cement Ltd has reported consolidated revenue from operations of INR17.65bn (US$210m) in FY23-24 (ended 31 March 2024), up from INR16.45bn (seven per cent YoY). EBI...
Lafarge Africa launches ECOPlanet Unicem
Lafarge Africa Plc has launched ECOPlanet Unicem, Nigeria's first low-carbon multipurpose cement. Designed with an over 30 per cent reduction in CO 2 emissions, ECOPlanet si...
Aggregates Industries UK names new CEO
Holcim has announced Lee Sleight as the new CEO of Aggregate Industries UK . He will take up his position on 1 August 2024. Mr Sleight joined the business in 2021 as man...
CIMERWA Plc acquires Prime Cement Ltd
Cement producer CIMERWA Plc has completed the purchase of Prime Cement Ltd. CIMERWA sent a notice to the Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE) informing the regulator that it had final...
Cementos Pacasmayo reports stable net profit in 1H24
Peru-based Cementos Pacasmayo SAA reported a 3.4 per cent uptick in income to PEN457.1m in the second quarter of 2024 from PEN442m in the 2Q23, supported by the sales mix as co...
US launches Cement and Concrete Center of Excellence
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonisation Office (IEDO) has announced plans to create a Cement and Concrete Center of Excellence to acceler...
Heidelberg Materials to receives US$5m in funding from EPA
Heidelberg Materials North America is set to receive US$5m in funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the development of a cloud-based tool that produce...
Road spending to boost Indian cement demand
India’s cement companies are expected to benefit from a boost in road infrastructure spending. In her Budget 2024 speech, Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Union Finance Minister ann...
Airvault plant modification is well underway
Heidelberg Materials ’ Airvault cement plant in the Deux-Sèvres region of France recently welcomed Bruno Pillon, the company’s president of France activities, Benoit Galiche...
Geseke plant starts WHRs
The Dyckerhoff ( Buzzi group ) plant in Geseke , Germany, has taken another important step in terms of energy efficiency and towards environmentally friendly and climate-neu...
UltraTech sees sales increase in 1QFY24-25
UltraTech Cement Ltd , part of Aditya Birla Group, has reported consolidated net sales of INR178,790m (US$2.14bn) in the first quarter of FY24-25 (ended 30 June 2024). This co...
Peru’s cement market contracts 6% in June
Cement dispatches in Peru declined by 5.9 per cent YoY to 0.924Mt in June 2024 from 0.928Mt in June 2023, according to ASOCEM, the Peruvian cement association. Of this total, d...
Taiheiyo Cement Phillipines inaugurates Cebu plant
A PHP12.8bn (US$219.25) cement plant has been opened in San Fernando, Cebu, in the Philippines by Japan-based Taiheiyo Cement . The inauguration marks a substantial invest...
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