Sika concrete recycling technology receives US$11m in funding
Sika has received CHF10m (US$11.34m) in funding for its innovative reCO2ver ® concrete recycling technology. ReCO2ver involves a novel concrete recycling process that allows o...
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WHR testing begins at Secil
The CTP Team waste heat recovery (WHR) system being installed at Secil , Portugal, has entered the testing phase with each piece of equipment being individually checked prior ...
Low Carbon Materials joins CCS+ initiative
Low Carbon Materials (LCM) has joined the CCS+ initiative. LCM is a climate technology start-up specialising in low-carbon, next-generation construction material alternatives i...
Bamburi sees pretax profit quadruple
Kenya-based Bamburi Cement Ltd , owned by Holcim, reported a 1H23 turnover of KES22,260m (US$153.5m), up 11 per cent when compared with the 1H22. Profit before tax surged to K...
H&M Construction Co to build GCC K3 Odessa expansion project
H&M Construction Co, Inc has been selected by GCC to be the design-builder of its new K3 pyroprocessing expansion at the Odessa , Texas, USA facility. GCC, a leading produc...
Diego Lugano and Hipermix in Brazil JV
Diego Lugano, a former footballer for Uruguay’s national team, is entering the cement business in Brazil in a joint venture (JV) with local company Hipermix. The JV has inaugur...
Brevik plant completes stack mounting of CCS project
Following installation of the first half of the absorber at Heidelberg Material ’s Brevik CCS plant in Norway two weeks ago, with only 1mm of leeway, the stack has now been...
Fauji Cement plant achieves ISO certification for energy management
Fauji Cement (FCCL) has announced that its manufacturing facility in Nizampur , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has achieved ISO 50001:2018 certification through TUV, Austria for i...
InterCement continues to downsize as it wrestles with debt
InterCement Participacoes SA (ICP), based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, continues to off-load assets as it attempts to manage a debt pile accumulated over a decade ago when the company...
UNACEM to acquire Tehachapi plant
Peru-based Grupo UNACEM is buying the 0.9Mta Tehachapi cement plant in California, USA, from Martin Marietta Materials Inc for US$317m. "The acquisition of Tehachapi repre...
Nepal exports of US$2m of clinker and cement in 1MFY23-24
Nepal exported cement and clinker with a total value of NPR234.98m (US$1.78m) in the first month of the current fiscal year, FY23-24. The country exported 9573t of cement wit...
Tokuyama cement selects ABB Ability™ Expert optimizer
ABB has delivered the advanced process control solution ABB Ability™ Expert Optimizer system to control, stabilise and optimise industrial processes at the Tokuyama Nanyo ce...
Adani group posts EBITDA growth of 42% in 1Q
Adani Group delivered EBITDA growth of 42 per cent YoY to INR235,320m (US$2852m) in 1QFY24 with businesses across segments ranging from airports and sea ports registered goo...
YTL Corp reports 22% revenue rise
YTL Corp Berhad ’s revenue increased by 22 per cent to MYR29,508.2m (US$6,359.5m) for the 12 months ended 30 June 2023, compared to MYR24,241.5m (US$5,224.5m) for the 12 mont...
EUA stuck in range trading – while UK price hits new low
By Frank O. Brannvoll, Brannvoll ApS, Denmark Lack of political news kept the market in a range drifting slightly lower due to lower gas prices, fear of industrial demand d...
Cemfree Masonry Mortar used in ExCel expansion
Cemfree Masonry Mortar, an ultra-low carbon construction material, is set to be used on its first major project, the expansion of the ExCeL London, saving over 11,000kg of CO ...
Indonesian cement market contracts 5% in 1H23
Cement sales in Indonesia totalled 28.052Mt in the first six months of 2023, down 4.8 per cent from 29.417Mt in the 6M22. Java, the country’s largest market, saw sales declin...
Hail Cement's posts net profits of SAR24.5m
In the 1H23 Hail Cement recovered net profits after zakat and tax valued at SAR24.48m (US$6.53m), compared to net losses of SAR13.72m during the same period a year earlier. ...
Construction of Lebap expansion completed
The construction of the second phase of Turkmen Cement 's Lebap cement plant in Koytendag, Turkmenistan, has been completed, reports Trend News Agency. The 1Mta expansion wa...
Cement dispatches are likely to rebound in August 2023
While Pakistani cement dispatch data for August 2023 is yet to be released by All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers (APCMA), Topline Securities has forecast that local cement disp...
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