WCA welcomes Hoffmann Green Cement as corporate member
Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has joined the World Cement Association (WCA) as its latest corporate member. Founded in 2014, Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies’ founder...
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Colombia’s cement market contracts 7% in July
Cement consumption in Colombia declined 6.5 per cent YoY to 1.052Mt in July 2023 when compared with 1.125Mt in July 2022, according to the country’s statistics office, DANE. ...
Adbri enters into bauxite supply agreement with ABx
ABx Group has entered into a five-year supply agreement with Adelaide Brighton Cement (ABCL), a subsidiary of Adbri , to provide cement-grade bauxite to ABCL’s Birkenhead ...
Suez Cement rebrands as Heidelberg Materials
Suez Cement Group of Companies (SCGC) has rebranded as Heidelberg Materials, reaffirming its vision to continue to lead the change in the sector towards sustainability and di...
Dragon Product to close Thomaston plant
Dragon Products Co , part of Giant Cement Holdings Inc (GCHI), announced it plans to shut down its cement plant in Thomaston , Maine, USA. “The facility, which has been op...
Kyrgyz cement output increases to 1.7Mt
Cement production in Kyrgyzstan has increased to 1.701Mt in the January-July 2023 period, according to the country’s National Statistical Committee. Of this total, 321,800t wer...
Bangladesh posts 79% cement export revenue growth in July and August 2023
Bangladesh has recorded 78.8 per cent YoY growth in cement export revenue to US$2.95m in the first two months of FY23-24 (July-August 2023) from US$1.65m earned in the same mon...
New partnership created between IKN and Kima Process Control
A new cooperation has been formed between IKN GmbH and Kima Process Control GmbH. This collaboration is aimed at optimising energy recuperation and reducing the carbon footpri...
Rhône Ciments appoints new director
Guillaume Montclair joined Cem‘In’ EU ’s Rhône Ciments plant on 6 September, as director of the Rhône Ciments plant. Mr Montclair has a long and recognised experience in pla...
Latin American producers target US for growth
Two Latin American cement producers have sought to bolster their financial positions in recent weeks with favourable growth deals in the US. Last week Union Andina de Cementos ...
Brazilian cement sales up 2% in August
Cement sales in Brazil increased by 1.8 per cent YoY to 5.973Mt in August 2023 from 5.867Mt in August 2022, according to the national cement association, SNIC. The recovery o...
Argos and Summit Materials to combine US operations
Cementos Argos has agreed to combine its operations in the USA with Summit Materials Inc , aiming to create a leading building materials platform on national scale. Cemen...
CIMAF constructing calcined clay plant in Burkina Faso
CIMAF , part of the Omnium des Industries et de la Promotion (OIP) group, is constructing a calcined clay quarry 60km northwest of the existing CIMAF Bobo Dioulasso grindi...
FCCC lowers cement prices in Fiji
As part of a review of cement prices in the country, the Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission (FCCC) has announced a lowering of ex-factory cement prices in Fiji. General...
Moroccan cement deliveries up by 8% in August
Deliveries by members of Morocco’s cement association APC ( Asment Temara , Ciments de l’Atlas , Ciments du Maroc and LafargeHolcim Maroc ) have increased by 7.6 per cent Y...
Maple Leaf Cement FY22-23 profit increases by 24%
Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd (MLCF), subsidiary of Kohinoor Textile Mills , announced its financial results for FY22-23 on 6 September 2023. The company posted earnings of...
Richmond plant achieves 100% low-carbon cement production
Lafarge Canada ( Holcim Group ) announced its conversion to the production of 100 per cent ECOPlanet cement at its Richmond cement plant . ECOPlanet, Holcim’s brand of low-...
Birla Corp announces expansions in FY25-26
Birla Corp , the flagship company of MP Birla Group , is planning to increase cement production to 25Mta by the end of financial year 2025-26. The existing capacity of Birla...
Pakistan's cement dispatches pick momentum in August 2023
Pakistani cement dispatches saw encouraging figures in domestic and overseas markets in August 2023. Usama Rauf, the investment analyst at AKD Securities, stated that cement sa...
Profit of Cherat Cement shrinks by 1% in FY22-23
Cherat Cement Co Ltd ( Ghulam Faruque Group ) has announced its financial results for the year ended 30 June 2023 by declaring a net profit of PKR4.40bn (US$14.3m) as compare...
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