Taiheiyo Cement joins Japanese CCS value chain study
Taiheiyo Cement Corp has joined six other companies in a feasibility study into the use of advanced carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Japan. The study forms part of Japan’s...
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Rising energy price may dent cement business in Pakistan
Pakistan's government increased the fuel price in the country on 1 August 2023. Two influential trade organisations, the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry ...
Ozinga opens new cement terminal in Florida
Ozinga, a fourth-generation family-owned construction materials company, has opened a new cement terminal at the Port of Palm Beach, USA. According to the company, the termina...
Orient Cement reports profit dip in June quarter
Orient Cement Ltd , part of the CK Birla Group , has reported revenue from operations of INR8251.8m (US$99.8m) in the quarter ended 30 June 2023, up from INR7139.3m in the sa...
Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd completes share sales in Iraqi subsidiary
The Company Secretary at Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd, Irfan Amanullah, has informed the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) that further to the company’s intimation dated 21 June 20...
Petcoke continues rally with discounts into neutral zone
by Frank O. Brannvoll, Brannvoll ApS, Denmark Coal rallied from US$100, driven by the energy complex as oil broke through the US$80 barrier following new cuts by OPEC+ in Ju...
Italy’s cement supply declines 13% in May, but prices see 13% increase
Cement production in Italy fell by 13 per cent YoY in May 2023, according to the national construction chamber, Federbeton. When compared with the 2015 base index, the output v...
Ambuja Cements to acquire Sanghi Industries
Ambuja Cements , part of the Adani Group , has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Sanghi Industries , reports Reuters News. According to sources close to the transaction,...
UltraTech commissions 1.2Mta Magdella expansion
UltraTech Cement has commissioned its 1.2Mta brownfield capacity expansion at Magdella , Gujarat. The project takes the plant’s total cement capacity to 1.93Mta. According t...
Edmonton plant orders PSCL's Ticketing Terminal and cloud technology
Heidelberg Materials has chosen the PSCL’s Ticketing Terminal powered by FR8Works for its Edmonton cement plant's alternative fuels delivery project. The solution will int...
East Africa Portland Cement is ready to tap domestic market
East Africa Portland Cement Co Plc and its Athi-River plant is set to expand its clinker production to serve the domestic market after the government imposed a 17 per cent ...
US/Puerto Rico Portland and cement shipments up 4% in May
Portland and blended cement shipments, including imports in the USA and Puerto Rico, in May 2023 advanced 4.3 per cent YoY to 10.1Mt. Of the total blended volume, 4.1Mt, or 96 ...
MIT study uses cement to produce supercapacitor
A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that combining cement and carbon black, which resembles very fine charcoal, may form the basis for a novel...
Carbon Upcycling raises US$26m funding for CCUS projects
Carbontech startup Carbon Upcycling has raised US$26m, with proceeds from the Series A funding round supporting the first commercial-scale carbon capture and utilisation deploy...
Aliacem supplies clinker storage for Česko Čížkovice plant
As EPC contractor for new clinker storage facilities, including a new concrete silo with live capacity of 50,000t, Aliacem sro accomplished last week all planned heavy lifting...
WCA welcomes OneStone Consulting as an Associate Corporate Member
The World Cement Association (WCA) is welcoming OneStone Consulting, a management consulting firm with global reach, as an Associate Corporate Member. Recognising the import...
Dangote reports 82% advance in pan-African revenue
Dangote Cement has reported total sales volumes of 13.4Mt in the first half of 2023. Its pan-African sales, which includes all cement plant operations outside Nigeria, came i...
CRH invests EUR34m in Ukraine
Ireland’s CRH is investing EUR34m in a new cement shipping complex in Ukraine. Construction of the “main stage” of the project was completed in early July, according to The S...
BUA Cement posts 1H23 revenue of NGN221bn
BUA Cement of Nigeria reported revenue of NGN221,067m (US$284.9m) in the 1H23, up 17.2 per cent from the NGN188,562m recorded in the 1H22. Operating profits totalled NG...
HeidelbergCement Bangladesh reports profit in 1H23
HeidelbergCement Bangladesh Ltd (HCBL) has earned a net profit of BDT478.02m (US$4.4m) in January –June 2023 against a loss of BDT205.29m in the same period of 2022, accordin...
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