Italian cement slips in 2023 with moderate 2024 forecast
Italian cement output expanded eight per cent YoY in December 2023, according to the Italian concrete association, Federbeton. This was largely driven by robust demand from loc...
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Colombian cement market contracts 4% in January
Cement dispatches in Colombia declined 4.2 per cent YoY to 0.891Mt in January 2024 when compared with 0.93Mt dispatched in January 2023, reports the country’s statistics office...
Shred-Tech Corp acquires CM Shredders LLC
Shred-Tech Corp, a leading manufacturer of industrial shredding and recycling solutions, has acquired of CM Shredders LLC by its parent company The Heico Companies. This strate...
Alicem starts work at Cement Hranice
February 2024 was a significant milestone for Alicem sro as the company successfully started the trial operation of its project modernisation of the upper stages of the preheat...
Morocco’s cement deliveries expand by 9% in February
Cement deliveries by members of Morocco’s cement association, APC ( Asment Temara , Ciments de l’Atlas , Ciments du Maroc, LafargeHolcim Maroc and Novacim ) increased by ...
Kunak wins SantanderX Global Challenge
Kunak, a leading environmental monitoring and Internet of Things (IoT) specialist, has won the SantanderX Global Challenge, an international competition that promotes the ad...
US and Puerto Rico cement consumption slips in 2023
Total US and Puerto Rican shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports, remained stable at 7.1 per cent in December 2023, according to the US Geological Survey (...
Leilac-2 moved to Ennigerloh plant
Calix has confirmed that the Leilac-2 carbon capture project, which was to be installed at Heidelberg Materials’ Hanover plant in Germany, will now be constructed at the ce...
Pakistan cement dispatches down 19% YoY in February
Pakistan has reported total cement dispatches of 3.26Mt in February 2024, compared to 4.04Mt in the same period a year earlier. This marks a YoY decline of 19.2 per cent, accor...
Northern Region Cement sells share in Al-Kubaisa plant
Northern Region Cement Co has announced the sale of its 50 per cent stake in Cement Experts Co for Development and Investment to UAE-based AMP Global Trading. According to Th...
AfriSam annual budget discussion centres on sluggish construction sector
AfriSam recently gathered its stakeholders for its Annual Budget Breakdown event in Johannesburg, to hear insights on the construction sector and budget speech. Econometr...
Holcim Block launched in Bangladesh
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh Ltd (LHBL) has launched its ‘Holcim Block’ to grab a share of Bangladesh's US$3bn domestic brick market. Around 150 manufacturers are making concrete...
LafargeHolcim Maroc posts 3% pick-up in revenue
LafargeHolcim Maroc reported a revenue of MAD8212m (US$816.2m) in 2023, up 2.8 per cent YoY from MAD7975m in 2022. The advance is attributed to higher cement sales and increa...
Gharibwal Cement achieves a gross profit of PKR1.499bn in 1HFY23-24
Gharibwal Cement Ltd (GWLC) of Pakistan announced its half-year financial results ending 31 December 2023, on 26 February 2024. The company saw a decrease in its profit to PK...
FLSmidth Cement closes MAAG gears sale
With reference to the announcement made on 22 January 2024, FLSmidth Cement has now closed the sale of its MAAG gears and drives business to the Swedish investment company, Sol...
Dangote boosts revenue by 36% in 2023
Dangote Cement has reported revenue of NGN2.208trn (US$1.365bn) in 2023, up 36.4 per cent from the NGN1.618trn posted in the previous year. Operating profit over the same per...
thyssenkrupp Polysius wins Schwenk Zement activated clay project
Schwenk Zement GmbH & Co KG has commissioned thyssenkrupp Polysius to build a demonstration plant in Alllmendingen for the production of activated clay without calcination....
Saint-Gobain posts 6% decline in sales in 2023
Saint-Gobain has reported sales of EUR47,944m in 2023, down 6.4 per cent from EUR51,197m in the previous year. EBITDA over the same period declined 1.7 per cent from EUR7123m...
Port of Amsterdam to build zero-carbon cement plant
EMC Cement (EMC) and HES International (HES) are to fully exploit industrially-proven EMC Technology, which uses a unique form of 'mechanical activation’ to enable abundant all...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh's profit jumped 34% in 2023
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh has reported that its sales grew 20 per cent YoY to BDT28.39bn (US$258.6m), and profit jumped 34 per cent to BDT5.94bn in 2023, compared to the previ...
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