Sagar Cements posts 15% YoY production growth
India's Sagar Cements Ltd has reported cement production of 5.47Mt in FY23-24 (1 April 2023-31 March 2024), up 15 per cent YoY. Clinker production over the same period improv...
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Peruvian cement dispatches contract 8% in March
Cement dispatches in Peru declined by eight per cent YoY to 0.897Mt in March 2024, reports the Peruvian cement association, ASOCEM. Of this total, 0.825Mt was dispatched by ASO...
Indocement starts work on 15MW solar power plant
Indocement officially commenced the operation of the ground-mounted solar power plant at its Tarjun factory in Indonesia on 22 May 2024. The inauguration was attended by Ch...
CEMARK ready to play its part in Ukraine's recovery
CEMARK ( CRH Group ) Director of Strategy and Development, Mykhailo Bechkalo, is confident that CEMARK will play a big role in the reconstruction of Ukraine. Mr Bechkalo believ...
Sublime Systems supplies One Boston Wharf
US-based Sublime Systems has supplied its low-carbon Sublime Cement to One Boston Wharf, a new net-zero carbon office building in Boston, USA. Being built by WS Development, On...
Indonesian Cement Association unveils low carbon roadmap at Cemtech Asia 2024
Cemtech Asia 2024 commenced today at the five-star Shangri-La Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. The event, running from 2-5 June, welcomes over 325 cement professionals from 29 coun...
US and Puerto Rican cement market expands 10% in February
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports, in the USA and Puerto Rico in February 2024 advanced 10.3 per cent to 7.59Mt when compared with February 2023...
Sinai Cement sees net sales fall in 1Q24
Sinai Cement saw its consolidated net sales fall to EGP1.16bn (US$24.5m) in the first quarter of 2024 (ended 31 March). This compares to EGP1.24bn in the same period a year e...
Holcim El-Djazaïr and SLB collaborate on decarbonisation
Holcim El-Djazaïr and global technology company SLB are proud to announce the signing of an agreement for a collaboration framework to explore carbon capture and storage (CCS...
Whangarei plant to be coal free by 2030
Fletcher Building’s Golden Bay company is revolutionising the cement industry at its Portland cement plant near Whangarei by replacing up to 60 per cent of coal with old tyres ...
Petcoke discount continues to offer good potential
By Frank O. Brannvoll, Brannvoll ApS, Denmark Coal prices stabilised after their fall in early May as geopolitical developments as well as higher oil and gas prices played t...
UltraTech keeps growing as it passes 150Mta of cement capacity
This week UltraTech (Aditya Birla Group) announced it planned to expand again with the acquisition of a 31.6 per cent stake in UAE-based RAK Cement. While the group has oversea...
DoE to accelerate CO2 removal with US$1.2m prize fund
As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced 24 semi-finalists to receive a total of US$1.2m to scale up their CO 2...
Barak Valley Cements posts revenue growth YoY
India-based Barak Valley Cements has reported consolidated total revenue of INR709.5m (US$8.5m) in the quarter ended 31 March 2024, up from INR616.1m in the same period a yea...
Dangote Cement commits to CNG trucks by 2025
Dangote Cement has pledged that all of its trucks will be operating on compressed natural gas (CNG) by the end of 2025, reports Vanguard. According to the company, investment...
Heidelberg Materials UK contributes to RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Heidelberg Materials UK has contributed to the Chelsea Repurposed Garden at this year’s Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show held in London. The RHS Chelsea ...
CEMEX supplies Miami's Okan Tower
CEMEX has supplied the concrete for the massive foundation pour for Okan Tower, a 70-storey mixed-use tower that will be one of Miami's tallest buildings. The foundation pour...
Adbri releases EvoCem Type GL cement
Adbri is proud to be Australia’s first manufacturer of lower-carbon general purpose limestone Type GL cement, a proven international cement technology. Adbri EvoCem Type ...
Brazil's cement market expands 12% in April
Cement dispatches in Brazil increased 12.3 per cent YoY to 5.142Mt in April 2024 from 4.577Mt in April 2023. Dispatches advanced 5.7 per cent MoM from 4.865Mt in March 2024, wh...
Heidelberg Materials launches Green Finance Framework
Heidelberg Materials has announced the launch of a Green Finance Framework to help fund the ongoing transformation and decarbonisation of the building materials sector. The c...
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