CEMEX links ARS programmes to sustainability goals
CEMEX has announced that all its accounts receivable securitisation (ARS) programmes are now linked to CEMEX’s sustainability-linked financing framework, which is aligned to ...
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Power and fuel costs hit profits at Ramco Cements
Ramco Cements Ltd has reported revenue of INR20,180.9m (US$244.3m) in the quarter ended 31 December 2022. This compares to INR17,932m in the previous quarter and INR15,558.8m...
Tarmac participates in UK's Cement 2 Zero project
Cement 2 Zero (C2Z), a UK-based demonstrator project to trial the world’s first zero-emissions cement on an industrial scale, was officially launched this week having successf...
Concrete Europe launched
The four European associations representing the concrete sector and its value chain, BIBM (the Federation of the European Precast Concrete Industry), CEMBUREAU (the Europe...
Aumund Fördertechnik reports the passing of Franz-Walter Aumund
Franz-W Aumund Chairman of the Board AUMUND Group AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH reports the death of Franz-Walter Aumund (shareholder, chairman of the Advisory Board, ...
US production and consumption increased in 2022
The US produced an estimated 95Mt of Portland and masonry cement in 2022, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), up from 93Mt in the previous year. Cement was produce...
Mitchell cement plant receives US$8.9m for carbon storage project
Heidelberg Materials North America is to receive approximately US$8.9m in funding from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonS...
Ambuja Cements reports 11% QoQ revenue rise
Ambuja Cements Ltd , part of the Adani Group , has reported an 11 per cent QoQ increase in revenue in the quarter ended 31 December 2022. Net revenue for the three-month per...
JK Lakshmi Cement signs solar power agreement
JK Lakshmi Cement on has signed an agreement with Amplus Solar to set up a 56MWp solar power plant for its Durg facility , located in Chhattisgarh. This will form part of the ...
Chilean cement dispatches contract 13% in 2022
Chilean cement dispatches fell 16.9 per cent YoY to 310,073t in December 2022, reported the Chilean construction chamber, CChC. For the full year, deliveries were down 13.4 p...
CEMEX Philippines signs biosolids partnership
CEMEX Philippines and Manila Water Co recently signed a partnership allowing the use of biosolids as alternative fuels, a first in the Philippines and a major accomplishment ...
Carbon Re report assesses technologies for decarbonisation
New research by Carbon Re has found that the cement industry could deploy a combination of 13 existing technologies to reduce CO 2 emissions by 0.8Gt per year. What’s more, ...
PPC in talks to sell Zimbabwe business
PPC Ltd is reportedly in talks to sell its Zimbabwe business. According to Bloomberg, discussions are at an early stage and no potential buyers have been named as yet. PPC is...
Holcim acquires Dura-Last roofing company
Holcim has signed an agreement to acquire Duro-Last, a US-based leader in commercial roofing systems. Duro-Last’s systems range from cool roofs, enhancing buildings’ energy e...
Argentina’s cement market expands 9% in January
Argentine cement demand increased by 9.2 per cent YoY and 2.7 per cent MoM to 957,958t in January 2023, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. The market was en...
UltraTech commissions 1.5Mta Odisha unit
UltraTech Cement (part of the Aditya Birla Group ) has commissioned a 1.5Mta brownfield cement grinding unit in Jharsuguda , Odisha, expanding the existing works, according...
The India Cements Ltd sees revenue slip MoM
The India Cements Ltd has reported revenue from operations of INR12,194m (US$147.3m) in the quarter ended 31 December 2022. This compares to INR12,546m in the previous quarte...
CEMEX's Lyons plant under pressure to close
CEMEX's Lyons plant in Colorado, USA, is coming under pressure to close from local protestors seeking that county officials revoke the cement plant’s land use privileges. Env...
Domestic dispatches rise and exports fall in January
Pakistan's total cement industry dispatches increased by 1.2 per cent in January 2023 to 4.01Mt from 3.96Mt dispatched during the same month of last fiscal year. Local cement ...
Holcim Russia's assets rebranded as CEMENTUM
The rebranding of the Holcim-Russia assets are now complete. The transition to the Russian brand ‘CEMENTUM’ is the start of a completely independent stage in the development o...
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