Spanish cement consumption declined 1% in May
Spanish cement consumption slipped in May by 0.9 per cent, to 1,325,372t, which represents a loss of 12,406t compared to the same month last year, according to the country's c...
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Holcim invests in Blue Planet Systems Corp
Holcim has announced its financial investment in Blue Planet Systems Corporation, a US-based start-up whose patented mineralisation technology is a unique scalable method fo...
Cemex chooses green fuels for French material transport
Cemex France is strongly encouraging its regular carriers to favour 'green' fuels such as biogas and biofuel, or electricity for the transport of materials. Since the sprin...
Carbon8 secures GBP5m investment to accelerate CCUS deployment
At Vivatech (Paris), Carbon8, the UK clean technology company specialising in carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), announce the closure of a GBP5m funding round. Vi...
Ambuja Cements embraces digitalisation
Ambuja Cements Ltd ( Holcim group ) has renewed its focus on digitalisation. This will remain a key area for Ambuja Cements as it reshapes the way the company operates from r...
Holcim’s Martes-Tolosane plant increases waste treatment facility
Holcim's Martes-Tolosane plant in France has doubled its waste treatment capacity with the recent modernisation of the kiln with the help of Geocycle. The enhanced capacit...
Gebr Pfeiffer to supply three more MVR mills to Pakistan
As a follow-up to the state-of-the-art MVR mills recently supplied to Askari Cement's Nizampur plant, Gebr Pfeiffer has now been contracted to supply three additional MVR mills...
Ghana sees cement price rise
The price of a 50kg bag of cement in Ghana is to increase by more than GHS5 to reach GHS66 (US$8.30) from 15 June 2022. According to JoyBusiness, the country’s cement produc...
Alfred H Knight opens Olympic Business Park sample preparation lab
Alfred H Knight has opened its state-of-the-art sample preparation facility. The site, located in Olympic Business Park, Kilmarnock, UK, is a result of significant investment...
Fossil to recapitalise Lafarge Zimbabwe
Fossil Mining, the new owner of Lafarge Zimbabwe, has said it plans to keep the company on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange once its takeover of the cement producer is completed. Ac...
Cementa wants climate-positive cement for National Transport Plan
Cementa has responded to the National Transport Plan of Sweden until 2033, recently announced by Tomas Eneroth, Minister of Infrastructure, arguing that new infrastructure s...
DG Khan set for US exports
Pakistan-based DG Khan Cement Co will be exporting 50,000t of cement to the USA for the first time. “A ship, Tomini Felicity, is presently loading cement at KPT in 1.5t jumbo...
Suez Cement awards WHRPG project to Korra Energi
Korra Energi has been awarded a new strategic, 'Waste Heat Recovery for Power Generation (WHRPG) project at Helwan Company ( Suez Cement Group), which is affiliated with H...
Oyak releases its 2021 Integrated Report
OYAK Cement has published its 2021 Integrated Report in which it announces its plans to be a "game-changer" in the cement industry by focussing on sustainability and digitali...
Korean trucker strike halts cement production
A strike by truckers in South Korea is causing chaos for the country’s cement plants, according to the Korea JoongAng Daily. The strike by members of Cargo Truckers Solidarity,...
BekabadCement to launch customer services service
In the autumn of 2022, BekabadCement JSC , (united Cement Group) is going to launch own customer support service. This lab will be opened at the grinding station in the ...
Puerto Rican cement market expands 5% in May
Puerto Rican cement sales in May 2022 declined 4.9 per cent YoY to 1.32m bags of 42.6kg, or 56,282t, according to the Puerto Rican Institute of Statistics. While the drop repre...
Fouta Cement prepares to launch new grinding mill in Liberia
Fouta Cement Corp, the subsidiary of Fouta Corp, a trading company based in Liberia, is establishing a 0.396Mta grinding plant in Monrovia. The project is financed partially vi...
Ecocem questions UK Government's CO2 regulations for new homes and buildings
Ecocem has questioned whether the new UK Government regulations (15 June 2022) for new homes and buildings in England to produce significantly less CO 2 go far enough? Ecocem ...
Fitch Ratings upgrades Cemex to BB+
Fitch Ratings has upgraded the foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) of Cemex to 'BB+' from 'BB', its senior unsecured notes to 'BB+' from 'BB' and its sub...
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