Ecocem appoints new UK and Ireland MD
Sally Anne Sherry is appointed Ecocem's new managing director for UK and Ireland business Ecocem has appointed Sally Anne Sherry as managing director for its UK an...
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Eastern Province Cement sees revenue jump 28% YoY
Eastern Province Cement Co has posted net income of SAR68m (US$18.13m) in the opening quarter of 2024, up 21.4 per cent YoY. Cement sales over the three-month period came in ...
CRH continues to invest in Ukraine
CRH has invested a total of US$80m in Ukraine since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to Guillaume Cavalier, president of CRH in Central and Eastern Europe....
Vulcan Materials posts fall in revenues in 1Q24
US-based Vulcan Materials has reported total revenue of US$1546m in the first quarter of 2024, down from US$1649m in the same period a year earlier. Gross profit in the 1Q cam...
AfriSam enhances road durability with Roadstab cement
AfriSam 's Roadstab cement is a specialised, high quality composite cement engineered specifically for road stabilisation tasks. The product is designed to optimise the proper...
Fauji Cement strives to improve fundamentals and strengthen its investment case
BMA Capital Management Ltd believes Fauji Cement Co Ltd (FCCL) will reap the benefits of an uptick in local cement demand by FY25, as well as strengthening market share and...
Heidelberg Materials UK acquires Mick George Ltd
Heidelberg Materials UK has completed its acquisition of leading recycling company Mick George Ltd (MGL), following approval from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)....
GCCA announces new partnerships
New partnerships between cement manufacturers and tech start-ups, to work together on the development of low carbon concrete, have been announced by the Global Cement and Concr...
Heidelberg Materials sees revenue dip 8% YoY in 1Q24
Heidelberg Materials has reported an eight per cent YoY decline in revenue to EUR4488m in the opening quarter of 2024. According to the company, the fall was the result of lo...
Birla Corp reports 127% jump in net profit
Birla Corp has continued its steady progress of the first three quarters of fiscal 2023-24 to end the year on a high, with record cement sales by volume and a 127 per cent gr...
Pakistan cement exports continue to excel in April 2024
Pakistan’s cement industry’s total cement dispatches during April 2024 were 2.94Mt, compared to 2.95Mt in April 2023. This comprises local cement at 2.33Mt against 2.53Mt in Ap...
Ghana sees cement price hike
Cement traders are seeing price hikes despite stable fuel prices, according to Ghana Business News. All three grades of cement produced by Ghana Cement (Ghacem) have seen a...
FIDEtechnology launches low carbon grinding mill
FIDEtechnology, a pioneering start-up dedicated to decarbonising the construction industry, has introduced its revolutionary Low Carbon (LC) Grinding Mill to the cement sector....
Cool Planet signs carbon capture MoU with Carmeuse
Cool Planet Technologies Ltd, based in Guildford, UK, has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Carmeuse Technologies SA, a key global producer of lime, limestone an...
Dangote Cameroon imports clinker from Nigeria and Congo to ensure 1Q supply
Dangote Cement sold 354,000t of cement in the Cameroon market in the 1Q24, representing 35 per cent of total cement production in the country, according to EcoMatin. While ongo...
Dyckerhoff plans major Deuna cement carbon capture installation
During the visit of Thuringia's Prime Minister, Bodo Ramelow, at the Dyckerhoff 's Deuna cement plant on 2 May, Dyckerhoff's Managing Director, Patrick Klein, announced that D...
Power Cement to acquire solar power plant at Sindh
Power Cement Ltd (PCL) has signed a term sheet with Burj Solar (Pat) Ltd for the development and financing of a 9.6MW wind power project at Deh KaloKohar, Nooriabad Industrial ...
EAPC recommissions Athi River plant
East African Portland Cement (EAPC) has recommissioned its Athi River plant in Kenya, boosting the company’s cement production capacity by 1Mta over the next two years, rep...
Saint-Gobain signs Romanian energy deal
Saint-Gobain has signed a five-year renewable electricity supply agreement (power purchase agreement or PPA) in Romania with energy supplier OMV PETROM SA. The contract cover...
Dangote Cement announces Philip retirement
Dangote Cement has announced the retirement of its Deputy Group Managing Director, Mathew Philip. Mr Philip retired from the cement producer on 30 April 2024, reports Busines...
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