SOCOCIM Industries to arrange IFC loan for Kiln 6 project
Senegal-based SOCOCIM Industries (VICAT group) is organising a debt facility with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to construct a high fuel-efficient Kiln 6. T...
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Jaiprakash Associates convenes divestment meeting
Jaiprakash Associates ( Jaypee Group ) has informed that a board meeting has been convened to apprise the board of the recommendations of the audit committee and the progress o...
GCCA welcomes three new member companies
Three more companies have joined the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), PT Souls Bangun Indonesia TBK , Fletcher Building Ltd and Norm Cement . By joining the GC...
Collaboration and circular economy building
This week Vicat announced that it was collaborating in a new consortium of manufacturers called the 'Advancement of Excellence in Industry' to advance decarbonisation, the circ...
Crown Cement commences construction of its 6th line
Crown Cement PLC (formerly MI Cement Factory Ltd) has announced the commencement of construction work on its sixth line at the existing factory premises at West Mukterpur, M...
Siam Cement Group enters JV for new ACC plant
Thailand-based Siam Cement Group (SCG) has entered into a joint venture (JV) with India’s BigBloc Construction (BCL) to build a greenfield plant to manufacture aerated autocl...
Cement Australia installs KC8 CO2 capture technology
Australia-based KC8 Capture Technologies is installing a demonstration plant to capture CO2 at Cement Australia ’s plant in Gladstone , Queensland. KC8’s solvent-based carbon...
CEMEX validates 2050 net-zero CO2 target with SBTi
CEMEX has validated its 2050 net-zero CO 2 target through the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), becoming one of the first companies in the industry to do so. The vali...
VTT electric kiln targets carbon neutral cement production
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an electric rotary kiln that is capable of making cement production close to carbon neutral. Powered by low-emission ele...
Titan plant constructs first 3D-printed Greek house
The first 3D-printed concrete house in Greece is being printed at TITAN Elefsina cement plant , by TITAN and its partners – Sika Hellas, Cos Hellas Ltd, and the National Te...
Dangote Cement Senegal incinerates narcotics worth US$40m
Dangote Cement Senegal incinerated 300kg of cocaine at its Pout cement plant at the request of the defence and security forces on 3 December 2022. The governor of the...
New UK cement plant gets green light
A new GBP40m (US$48.8m), 0.5Mta cement plant at Sheerness Docks in Kent, UK, has been given the go ahead. Despite a petition against the plant receiving over 1000 signatures, K...
Saudi cement sales rise 5% in November
The aggregate sales of 17 Saudi cement producers rose one per cent YoY to 4.8Mt in November 2022, according to Yamama Cement Co ’s data. Locally, nine market players reported ...
Iran sees 4% increase in cement exports
Iran exported 7.6Mt of cement in the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 2021-October 2022), according to data from the Iranian Industry, Mining and ...
Cementa's time-limited extraction permit stands
The Supreme Administrative Court (HFD) has decided that the time-limited extraction permit, which the government announced to Cementa ( Heidelberg Materials ) in the fall of ...
Holcim Bulgaria awarded 35-year concession
The Bulgarian government has granted Holcim Bulgaria a concession for the Marudnicite West sand and gravel deposit near Sofia for 35 years. The deposit is located between the...
Cement Australia debuts first electric cement truck
Cement Australia has made its first delivery in New South Wales using its new Janus JE410 truck, which is believed to be the first fully manufactured electric Class A truck i...
CIMERWA posts end of year revenue of RWF92.1bn
CIMERWA Plc 's year-end financial results recorded revenue of RWF92.1bn (US$84.6m) in 2022, 37 per cent above the previous year. “This is mainly attributed to the optim...
Groundbreaking at JK Cement's Madhya Pradesh grinding plant
JK Cement has performed a groundbreaking ceremony for its 1.5Mta greenfield grinding unit in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain district. Construction and installation activities have c...
Thailand looks to Philippines for exports
The Philippines government has decided not to extend a tax on imports of cement. The levy on imported cement was first introduced on 22 October 2019 for three years. In the fir...
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