ENVEA acquires California Analytical Instruments Inc
ENVEA, comprised of ENVEA Global SAS and its subsidiary businesses, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of cutting-edge ambient air, emission and process monitoring system...
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Cementos Molins reports 25% YoY revenue growth in 1Q23
Cementos Molins has reported revenue of EUR342m in the first quarter of 2023, up 25 per cent YoY. According to the company, sales have improved across all businesses and regi...
Canada's Cement Association releases Concrete Zero plan
The Cement Association of Canada (CAC), together with its members and partners in the concrete sector, has released Concrete Zero, an Action Plan to ensure Canada’s cement and ...
Lafarge Africa launches its Ewekoro bagging plant
Lafarge Africa ( Holcim group ) has launched a bag manufacturing plant in Ewekoro , Nigeria. The plant features cutting-edge and state-of-the-art machinery and equipment, ...
Lucky Cement to buy back its shares at market prices
The Board of Directors of Lucky Cement Ltd , in its meeting held on 28 April 2023, has approved and decided to recommend to the members of the company for their approval by pa...
Sika completes MBCC acquisition
Sika has completed its acquisition of MBCC Group. Based in Germany and formerly owned by an affiliate of Lone Star Funds, MBCC Group is active in the field of construction syst...
Taiwan Cement Group plans green bond
Taiwan Cement Group is planning to issue green bonds through its subsidiary in Europe, marking the first time the group has sold such bonds to finance environmentally-friendl...
Cemex sales up 9% YoY in 1Q23
Cemex has reported strong results in the opening quarter of 2023 with sales expanding by nine per cent YoY to US$4036m and EBITDA seeing six per cent growth to US$733m, drive...
Colombian cement consumption declines 8% in March
Cement dispatches in Colombia fell 7.5 per cent YoY to 1.163Mt in March 2023 from 1.257Mt in March 2022, according to national statistics agency, DANE. While deliveries of bu...
Ambuja Cement reports 8% growth in March quarter
Ambuja Cement has reported standalone net revenue of INR42,560m (US$520.1m) in the quarter ended 31 March 2023, up from INR39,270m in the same quarter a year earlier, marking...
ASTM proposes new standards for SCMs
ASTM International’s concrete and concrete aggregates committee (C09) is developing a proposed standard specification for a broad range of supplementary cementitious materials ...
Moroccan cement deliveries see 21% drop in April
Cement deliveries by APC members Asment Temara , Ciments de l’Atlas , Ciments du Maroc and LafargeHolcim Maroc saw a 20.6 per cent fall to 716,483Mt in April 2023 from 90...
Lucky Cement sales increased by 19% in 9MFY23
Lucky Cement Ltd has announced its financial results for the third quarter ending 31March 2023 and the 9MFY23. It reported a profit after tax of PKR11.13bn (US$39.2m) compare...
Cement dispatches eroded in April due to Ramzan and Eid
According to Topline Securities, Pakistan’s total cement sales in April 2023 are expected to fall by 25-29 per cent MoM to reach 2.7-2.9Mt, with local dispatches likely to be d...
US and Puerto Rican Portland and blended cement shipments down 3% in February
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports, in the USA and Puerto Rico declined by 2.8 per cent YoY to 6.6Mt in February 2023, according to the US Geolog...
Dangote Cement volumes fall 14% in 1Q23
Dangote Cement has reported a 1.6 per cent YoY decline in group revenue to NGN406.7bn (US$883.2m) in the first quarter of 2023. Group EBITDA over the same period fell 12 per ...
UltraTech Cement report consolidated net sales of INR184,360m
UltraTech Cement Ltd has announced its financial results for the quarter and year ended 31 March 2023 with consolidated net sales totalling INR184,360m (US$2.26bn), a rise o...
Lafarge Africa 1Q23 sales up 1.3% YoY
Lafarge Africa has reported a 1.3 per cent YoY uptick in net sales to NGN91,821m (US$199.4m) in the opening quarter of 2023. Recurring EBIT over the same period was up 0.8 pe...
Holcim and Air Liquide join forces to decarbonise new Obourg plant
Air Liquide and Holcim have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to pursue a project to decarbonise Holcim’s new cement production plant under development in Belgium, u...
Shree Digvijay Cement reports 15% revenue growth in 4QFY23
India’s Shree Digvijay Cement Co Ltd (SDCC) has reported a 15 per cent YoY increase in revenue in the 4QFY22-23, ending 31 March 2023. Revenue for the quarter came in at INR1...
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