Colombia's cement market contracts 4% in January
Colombian cement dispatches declined 3.5 per cent to 0.93Mt in January 2023 from 0.964Mt in January 2022, according to the country’s statistics office, DANE. When compared with...
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Very low petcoke discounts may lead to switch to coal
The price of a barrel of oil has returned to the lower end of the US$80-88 range. Gas prices were also down on the back of warm weather forecasts and the Turkey-Syria earthquak...
Heidelberg Materials at White House decarbonisation roundtable
Heidelberg Materials was invited by the White House to join a wide range of industrial sector executives and labour leaders for a productive roundtable conversation to discuss...
India builds first cement concrete steel slag road
India’s first cement concrete steel slag road is currently under construction on National Highway 66, around 50km outside Mumbai. The 1km stretch of road, which is located near...
Vassiliko Cement to build new alternative fuel storage site
The Environment Service has given the go ahead for a designated new alternative fuels storage site a year after a fire destroyed Vassiliko Cement plant’s original storage...
Caribbean Cement Co explains cement shortage
Caribbean Cement Co is apologising cement shortages in Jamaica. Hardware stores in Mandeville and Christiana in Manchester and Santa Cruz in St Elizabeth had no or limited c...
South Valley Cement reports decline in net losses in 2022
Egypt’s South Valley Cement has reported sales in 2022 of EGP873.73m (US$28.3m), up from EGP284.62m in the previous year, according to Zawya. Over the same period, the compan...
Argentina's cement consumption down 5% in February
The cement market in Argentina contracted by 4.5 per cent YoY and 6.5 per cent MoM to 895,938t in February 2023, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. In Februar...
Hoffmann Green gets Chinese patent for its clay-based cement
Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has been granted a Chinese patent for its clay-based H-EVA cement. One year after the granting of the Chinese patent for its H-P2A binder, ...
APCMA releases mixed dispatches data for Feb 2023
Pakistan’s local cement dispatches fall and exports rise in February. Commenting on the trend of dispatches, a spokesman of the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (A...
Heracles Group set to acquire Larsinos SA
Heracles Group ( Holcim group ), announces the agreement to acquire 100 per cent of Larsinos SA. This acquisition is part of Heracles Group’s growth strategy. The agreement ...
Uzbekistan produced 15Mt of cement in 2022
Uzbekistan produced 14.6Mt of cement in 2022, reports UzDaily, giving a per capita production figure for the year of 415kg. This compares to 1770kg in Turkey, 519kg in China a...
Fives to supply grinding unit for Xeuilley cement plant
Fives has been selected by Vicat for the modernisation of a grinding unit for the Xeuilley cement plant, France. The project involves the integration of a new FCB TSV™ 3600...
Dangote Cement opens US$130m commercial paper offer
Dangote Cement is currently raising NGN60bn (US$130.7m) through the issuance of commercial paper, under its NGN150bn commercial paper programme, reports The Nigerian Observer...
Bedeschi opens materials handling excellence centre
Bedeschi SpA is excited to announce the opening of the new Bedeschi materials handling excellence centre in Germany. This centre enriches the company’s already strong engineer...
CRH proposes moving stock listing to New York
CRH is considering moving its main stock market listing from London to New York. According to the company, around 75 per cent of its income comes from the North American mark...
Carbon Upcycling and A3&Co® sign strategic partnership
Carbon Upcycling has signed a strategic partnership with A 3 &Co ® to support Carbon Upcycling’s engineering and project delivery. The partnership sets the foundati...
Lafarge Africa sees net sales improve 27% YoY
Lafarge Africa Plc has reported a 27.3 per cent rise in net sales in FY22 to NGN373.2bn (US$812.9m), compared to NGN293.1bn in FY21. Recurring EBIT over the same timeframe ad...
FCT's latest equipment deliveries and commissioned projects
FCT has recently completed a wide range of projects for the global cement industry for kiln burners and hit gas generators. Australasia FCT conducted a heat and mass ...
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd takes delivery of first LNG trucks
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd (DCBL), subsidiary of Dalmia Bharat Ltd (DBL), has deployed its first fleet of LNG trucks. DCBL has tied up with GreenLine Logistics (Green Planet...
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