Peruvian cement market contracts 17% in February
Cement demand in Peru fell by 17 per cent YoY to 0.883Mt in February 2023 from 1.068Mt in the year-ago period, according to the country’s cement association, Asocem. Of this to...
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Gebr Pfeiffer and CBMI Construction Co Ltd form calcined clay alliance
Gebr Pfeiffer and CBMI Construction Co have entered into a cooperation agreement to supply efficient plants for combined grinding and calcination of clay. Calcined clay offers ...
Luks Group (Vietnam Holdings) hit by construction standstill in 2H22
Luks Group (Vietnam Holdings) Co Ltd has reported revenue of HKD492.88m (US$62.8m) in 2022, down from HKD513.23m in the previous year. Profit for 2022 came in at HKD48.5m, co...
German cement prices rise again
The German statistical office (Statistisches Bundesamt) has published the price index for manufactured goods where cement prices were up by 51.7 per cent in February 2022 YoY, ...
FLSmidth wins Secil Supremo Cimento plant modification order
FLSmidth has been awarded a contract to increase the capacity at Secil Supremo Cimento 's Adrianópolis plant to 3900tpd and at the same time decrease its dependence on fossi...
Umm Al Qura sees net profit plunge 72% YoY in 2022
Saudi Arabia-based Umm Al Qura Cement Company has reported revenue of SAR221.21m (US$58.99m) in 2022, down 20.66 per cent from the SAR278.83m seen in the previous year. Net p...
US and Puerto Rican Portland and blended cement shipments see 9% drop in December
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports, in the USA and Puerto Rico declined 8.9 per cent YoY to 7.3Mt, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). ...
Tarmac plans to cut jobs despite huge profits
Tamac ( CRH Plc) is planning to cut as much as 10 per cent of its workforce in the UK according, to the GMB Union, which has called on the aggregate and building supplies gi...
Holcim receives environmental permit for new Obourg kiln
Holcim has received a new environmental permit for the company’s GO4ZERO kiln project at its Obourg plant, near Mons, Belgium, according to news agency Belga. The new kil...
CEMEX recovers Playa del Carmen operations
CEMEX has been granted permission under warrant to recover its operations at Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. CEMEX has an existing contractual relationship with C...
Saudi Arabia cement exports advance 46% in February
Cement sales in Saudi Arabia edged up one per cent to 4.215Mt in February 2023 from 4.155Mt in February 2022, according to Yamama Cement . Export sales, which accounted for fo...
Bruks Siwertell receives east African road mobile ship unloader order
Bruks Siwertell has secured an order for a next-generation, screw-type discharging, Siwertell road-mobile ship unloader for cement handling in east Africa. The Siwertell 15 000...
UltraTech Cement wins Water Sustainability Award
UltraTech ( Aditya Birla ) has been presented the ‘TERI-IWA-UNDP Water Sustainability Award 2022’ by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in association with the Interna...
Lucky Cement receives NFEH's 15th Corporate Social Responsibilities Awards 2023
Lucky Cement Ltd has announced winning the NFEH’s 15th Corporate Social Responsibilities Awards 2023 in the "Green Energy Initiatives" category. This award recognises the compa...
CRH appoints new non-executive director
CRH plc has appointed Christina Verchere as non-executive director, effective from 20 March 2023. Ms Verchere, a dual British and US citizen, is chief executive officer of OM...
Pakistan cement earns US$117.69m during the 8MFY22-23
Pakistan's cement industry constantly saw a negative to mixed export revenue trend in the 8MFY22-23 (July 2022-February 2023), according to the country’s Federal Bureau of Stat...
PPC seeking buyers for CIMERWA stake
South Africa-based PPC is looking to sell its shareholding in Rwandan cement producer CIMERWA . “PPC is selling its 51 per cent stake in CIMERWA and the government will disc...
Ecebol plant expected to start up in June
Bolivia’s Empresa Pública de Cemento (Ecebol) expects to commission its new Potosí plant in June with the project currently 92 per cent complete and a budget execution of 85 ...
Eastern Province Cement FY profit sees 26% drop
Full-year sales of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province Cement advanced 3.4 per cent to SAR784m (US$209.1m) in 2022 to SAR758m in the year-ago period. Net profit after zakat and...
Adbri appoints acting chief financial officer
Adbri Ltd has appointed Dianne Mong to the role of acting chief financial officer, effective immediately. Ms Mong was previously general manager finance. She has been with A...
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