Sinai White Portland Cement to open first cement terminal at Arish
Transcargo International (TCI), a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Ports Group, has signed an agreement with Sinai White Portland Cement to build and operate the first bulk cement sil...
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thyssenkrupp Polysius and Fujairah Cement Industries sign decarbonisation MoU
thyssenkrupp Polysius and Fujairah Cement Industries (FCI), UAE, intend to cooperate in the future to reduce CO 2 emissions in FCI's production lines. In particular, the pot...
Holcim joins Circularity Task Force at COP28
Holcim has become a founding member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s (SMI) Circularity Task Force, launched at COP28 in Dubai, to accelerate the world’s shift to a cir...
CEMEX welcomes BS 8500 concrete standard
CEMEX has welcomed the introduction of the newly revised standard for concrete, BS 8500, with a two-day CEMEX UK ReadyMix Commercial Conference for key stakeholders across the ...
GCCA releases its Cement Industry Net Zero Progress Report 2023
The Global Cement & Concrete Association (GCCA) has released its Cement Industry Net Zero Progress Report 2023 providing an update on global action and progress by the GCCA and...
What is a successful COP28 for the cement sector?
Yesterday saw the opening of the United Nations COP28 (Conference of the Parties 30 Nov-12 Dec 2023) in Dubai, UAE. CemNet looks ahead at how these key climate talks could shap...
FCCL becomes third-largest producer in Pakistan with new plant
Pakistan’s Fauji Cement Co Ltd (FCCL) has successfully commissioned its new 2.1Mta greenfield cement plant in Shadan Lund, Dera Ghazi Khan. The new facility has boosted the c...
Swiss team draws on archives to develop low-carbon binders
A team of experts from EPFL (Switzerland), ETH Zurich and a Geneva-based architecture firm has developed a new type of non-reinforced concrete made from stone offcuts. Their m...
UltraTech Cement to acquire Kesoram Industries Ltd's demerged cement business
Kesoram Industries Ltd has decided to demerge its cement business and has approached UltraTech Cement Ltd in relation to the same. The Board of Directors of UltraTech, af...
Transcargo International to build cement silos for Sinai White Portland Cement
Transcargo International (TCI), a veteran terminal operator in Egypt, announces the signing of an agreement with Sinai White Portland Cement (SWCC), for the development of Eg...
Karsan Ramji signs geothermal power deal
Kenya-based Karsan Ramji and Sons , which produces Ndovu Cement, has signed a 20-year deal with the country’s state-owned geothermal developer Geothermal Development Company (...
Betolar to speak on sustainable alternatives to cement at COP28
At COP28 UAE, Finnish sustainable materials technology company Betolar is tackling one of the largest sustainability issues of our time: how to reduce climate impacts of the c...
Cement demand in Spain down 7% in October
Cement consumption in Spain declined 6.7 per cent in October 2023 to 1,171,629t when compared with October 2022, according to Oficemen, the Spanish cement association. Exports ...
Cemento Polpaico posts 9M23 loss
Chile-based Cemento Polpaico reported losses of CLP9016.24m (US$10.4m) in the first nine months of 2023, compared with a profit of CLP3576.95m in the 9M22. The company's rev...
Emirates Steel Arkan and A³&Co® collaborate for cement decarbonisation
Contributing to the UAE’s Net Zero by 2050 strategic initiative, Emirates Steel Arkan (ESA), one of the largest publicly-traded steel and building materials manufacturers in th...
Burnpur Cement Ltd acquisition increases UltraTech Cement's capacity
UltraTech Cement has acquired a 0.54Mta cement grinding assets of Burnpur Cement Ltd, located at Patratu in Jharkhand, India, at a consideration of INR169,790m. This investme...
Heidelberg Materials launches its evoZero brand
Under its new evoZero brand, Heidelberg Materials is introducing the world’s first carbon captured net-zero cement to customers in Europe. evoZero achieves its net-zero footp...
Pakistan cement transportation to become costlier
Pakistan has started implementing an axle load regime on transporting cement, all kinds of raw materials and other commodities to meet the World Bank yardstick and improve its ...
Taiwan Cement expands its European footprint
Turkey's Army Pension Fund, OYAK , has reached a preliminary agreement to sell its stakes in two cement companies to Taiwan Cement Corp for a total of about EUR673m. OYAK...
First Graphene successfully completes Phase 2 Trial at Breedon Cement
First Graphene has successfully completed the second phase of graphene-enhanced cement trials in collaboration with Breedon Cement Ltd at the cement producer’s Hope Cement Work...
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