Samson Materials Handling Ltd appoint new MD
Martin Dummigan has been appointed Managing Director of SAMSON Materials Handling Ltd, Ely, UK, member of the AUMUND Group of companies, effective from the 1 April 2023. He br...
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Cementos Molins acquires Tecnoresil
Cementos Molins has acquired 100 per cent of Tecnoresil, a company that manufactures and distributes chemical products for industrial and decorative flooring, through its con...
Sagar Cements suspends production at Mattampally
India's Sagar Cements Ltd announced on 6 April 2023 that it was suspending clinker production at its plant in Mattampally , Telangana State. The shutdown is due to maintenan...
UltraTech rolls out LNG trucks at Pune
UltraTech Cement has extended its use of LNG-fuelled trucks to its bulk terminal in Pune, India. Green Planet Logistics, India's first LNG-fuelled trucking logistics company,...
Huaxin acquires majority stake in Oman Cement
Oman Cement Company SAOG has confirmed the successful completion of a share purchase agreement between The Investment Authority Company SPC (representing the government’s sta...
Indonesia: Plenty of cement for a new capital city
The construction of Indonesia's new capital project, Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN) in East Kalimantan on Borneo is moving ahead at pace. The first phase of the new city is scheduled...
Argentine cement consumption up 6% in March
Argentina’s cement market expanded by 6.4 per cent in March 2023 as 1,114,722t of cement were supplied, compared to 1,047,227t in March 2022, according to the country’s cement ...
APCMA releases mixed dispatches data for March 2023
Total cement dispatches of Pakistan's cement mills in March 2023 were 3.795Mt against 5.01Mt in the previous fiscal year, representing a fall of 24.2 per cent. A spok...
Wonder Cement commissions Aligarh grinding unit
Wonder Cement Ltd has taken a step towards commitment to provide the best cement with the commissioning of its state-of-the-art grinding unit at Aligarh , Uttar Pradesh, In...
Heidelberg Materials acquires RMS Gravel Inc
Heidelberg Materials has acquired all operating assets and reserves of RMS Gravel Inc, a producer of high-quality sand and gravel products located in the Central New York ma...
Hanson Padeswood to form part of new UK CCUS clusters
The UK Government has confirmed Hanson ’s Padeswood carbon capture and storage project, based in north Wales, UK, as one of eight projects to be taken forward to negotiatio...
Holcim acquires Sivyer Logistics
Holcim has acquired Sivyer Logistics, a leading producer of recycled construction and demolition waste (CDW) for the London construction market. Sivyer currently handles arou...
Flender Group appoints new CEO
German drive specialist Flender has announced that Christian Terlinde will take over the company’s Group CFO position starting 1 July 2023. Terlinde is currently Group CFO at ...
Italian cement output advances 4% in January 2023
Italian cement production increased by four per cent YoY in January 2023, according to the country’s construction chamber, Federbeton. When compared with the 2015 base index pr...
Indocement sees 3% rise in profit in 2022
PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk (INTP), part of Heidelberg Materials , reported a profit of IDR1.84trn (US$123.2m), up three per cent YoY, in 2022. Net revenue was up 10....
Bangladesh cement exports surpass target by 20.7% in 9MFY23
Bangladesh has reported 48.7 per cent YoY growth in cement export revenue to US$9.68m in the 9MFY22-23 (July 2022-March 2023). This compares to US$6.51m in the same period a y...
Buxton Net Zero project passes due diligence funding phase
Tarmac ( CRH ) and LEILAC have moved a step closer to delivering the world’s first zero emissions lime plant, with the UK Government’s Department for Energy Security and Net...
CIMAF orders polysius® booster mill
To reduce the clinker factor of cement produced in its plant of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Ciments d'Afrique (CIMAF) has entrusted thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG, BU ...
ABB ramps up US investment
Electrification and automation specialist, ABB is accelerating its growth strategy in the USA by investing approximately US$170m and creating highly-skilled jobs in manufactur...
Holcim partners with Norman Foster Foundation on housing project
Holcim and the Norman Foster Foundation will announce the launch of their Essential Homes Research Project in Venice on 17 May, during the 2023 Architecture Biennale. In this ...
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