Lime production in Great Britain to be net zero by 2040
Lime producers in Great Britain have launched an ambitious plan to accelerate decarbonisation and deliver net negative carbon emissions by 2040, reports the Mineral Products A...
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Iranian cement demand advances 14% in May
Iran’s cement market has expanded by 13.9 per cent to 5.82Mt in May 2023 when compared with May 2022, when 5.11Mt of cement was sold, according to the Iranian Cement Associatio...
Samson win Chinese EcoHopper order
One SAMSON Eco Hopper type EH60 has been successfully tested and put into operation for bulk material loading and unloading in China. Thanks to the environmentally friendly ...
UltraTech Cement Ltd ranked No1 for Sustainability
UltraTech Cement Ltd has been ranked No1 in Sustainability in the Infrastructure and Engineering sector in Sustain Labs Paris and BW Businessworld’s India's Most Sustainable...
Barak Valley Cements announces resignation
India-based Barak Valley Cements Ltd has announced the resignation of director, Dhanpat Ram Agarwal, with immediate effect, reports Dow Jones Newswire. Mr Agarwal is leaving t...
Hoffmann Green to build four new units in Saudi Arabia
Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has agreed to collaborate with Shurfah Holding to build four Hoffmann units in Saudi Arabia. As part of Saudi Vision 2030, Shurfah Holding ...
Attock Cement sells Iraqi unit for US$11.7m
Attock Cement Ltd of Pakistan has updated Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) about selling its 60 per cent share in its Iraqi grinding plant on 21 June 2023. Company Secretary, Ir...
Heidelberg Materials celebrates 150-year anniversary
Heidelberg Materials is celebrating its 150th company anniversary this year and on 20 June, a “150 years of progress” ceremony was held with guests and employees at the headq...
N+P Group completes Niramax Group Ltd acquisition
N+P Group (N+P) has announced the completion of an asset purchase agreement for the assets of Niramax Group Ltd Hartlepool, a waste-processing facility. The deal excludes the t...
Bedeschi win Medcem shipunloader order
Similar shipunloader at Yesilovacik Terminal Turkey-based cement producer Medcem Cement awarded Bedeschi the order for the supply of four pipe conveyors and one sh...
Afrimat acquires Lafarge South Africa Holdings
Lafarge South Africa Holdings (LSA) is being acquired by South Africa-based mining and materials company, Afrimat, The deal includes all the subsidiaries of the LSA Group, wh...
Buzzi Unicem sells Ukraine operations to CRH
Buzzi , through its fully owned subsidiary Dyckerhoff GmbH , has reached an agreement to sell some of its businesses in Eastern Europe to CRH , a leading building materials ...
Indian cement prices forecast to fall 1-3%
Cement prices in India are expected to fall by 1-3 per cent in the current fiscal year (April 2023-March 2024), after recording a four per cent compound annual growth rate (CA...
Adani Group in talks with more lenders over acquisition loan
The Adani Group is reportedly in talks with at least five new international banks regarding its refinancing of US$3.8bn of loans taken for its acquisition of ACC Limited an...
Pakistan cement exports continue mixed trend in 11MFY22-23
The cement industry in Pakistan continued to experience a mixed picture in export revenue during the first 11 months of the current financial year, which runs from July 2022 to...
Aumund Group welcomes a new owner
Franz-Walter Aumund left a healthy and motivated high-quality business as his legacy. The group companies, Aumund Fördertechnik, Schade Lagertechnik, Samson Materials Handling,...
Coal ash laden vessel sinks in Bangladesh
Chittagong Port of Bangladesh has reported that a local vessel carrying coal ash for cement and other industries sank in the Alpha Anchorage area of the port on 14 June. Accord...
US government invests US$135m in 40 carbon reduction projects
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $135m in funding for 40 projects that will reduce carbon pollution from the industrial sector and move the nation toward a net-...
Aggregate Industries welcomes UK's first green bio-fuel cement tanker
Aggregate Industries (part of Holcim ) has taken delivery of the next generation of cement tanker, fuelled by a green bio-fuel. Marking a UK first, the company has deployed ...
Sri Lanka raises import tax on cement
The Sri Lankan government has increased the import tax (CESS) on imported cement. With effect from 17 June 2023, the import tax on 1kg of artificially coloured or uncoloured c...
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