Pakistan’s cement dispatches decline in April and 9MFY22
Pakistan's cement industry is facing weaker dispatches issues due to the unstable business and economic situation prevailing in the country. Even the Pakistan stock exchange wi...
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GCCA starts open challenge race to net zero for six start-ups
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has revealed the first six start-ups that will be backed by its member companies as part of the first Innovandi ‘Open Challeng...
Lhoist partner with Air Liquide for Carbon capture project
Lhiost is partnering with Air Liquide to launch a first-of-its-kind decarbonisation project of lime production in France. As part of this project, Air Liquide would build and ...
CS-Pozzolan-Perlite attracts cement producer interest
Sunrise Resources, a mineral exploration and development firm in Macclesfield, UK, is in talks with two US cement companies over supplying them with materials from its US sites...
Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd appoints VP Business Development - Ports & Logistics
Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd, who provides maritime logistics to transport a wide range of drybulk cargoes such as cement clinker, dolomite and limestone, has appointed Bren...
USA and Puerto Rico Portland and blended cement shipments up 19% in February
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports, in the USA and Puerto Rico saw a 19 per cent hike to 6.8Mta in February 2022 when compared with February 202...
Loma Negra reports 1Q22 results
Loma Negra saw its net sales revenue decrease by 5.5 per cent to ARS19.3bn (US$171m) in the first quarter of 2022 as cement and concrete sales declined and improvements in aggr...
SAMSON Materials Handling secures Eco Hopper order
SAMSON Materials Handling has won an Eco Hopper order for handling cement clinker, limestone, coal and pellets to be installed at the port of Slite, Gotland, Sweden. The ...
Cement shortage hits the Bahamas
Cement shortages have hit the Bahamian construction industry at least three times in the past month, according to Stephen Wrinkle, the former Bahamian Contractors Association p...
Argentina’s cement consumption up 10% in April
The Argentine cement demand increased by 9.6 per cent YoY in April 2022 to reach 1,039,320t, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. In April 2021 cement’s consump...
Cement production in Tajikistan declined in 1Q22
Cement plants in Tajikistan saw a 5.9 per cent YoY drop in cement production to 971,000t in the first quarter of 2022, according to the country’s statistics office. In January-...
Argos recycles 10.9Mm3 of water in 2021
Argos ( Grupo Argos ) recycled 10.9Mm 3 of water during 2021, which represents 91 per cent of recirculation and is equivalent to the average consumption of 60,000 families per...
Cementir's 1Q22 regional results boosted by domestic cement sales
In the1Q22 Cementir’s regional revenues were boosted by Danish sales that reached EUR109m, up 17.7 per cent compared to EUR92.6m in the 1Q21, thanks to sustained demand in al...
India champions blended cements
India's production of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) continues to fall as the manufacture of blended cements, such as Portland pozzolana cement (PPC), Portland slag cement (PSC...
Dangote volumes up 4% in 1Q22
Dangote has reported a 24.2 per cent YoY increase in group revenue to NGN413.2bn (US$995.4bn) in the opening quarter of 2022. Group EBITDA over the same period advanced by 18.6...
Cementir reported 1Q22 EBITDA of EUR60.7m
Cementir 's EBITDA amounted to EUR60.7m in the 1Q22, an increase of 26.2 per cent compared to EUR48.1m in the 1Q21, following better results achieved to varying degrees in alm...
Vertua to account for majority of sales by 2025, says Cemex
Cemex has announced the ambitious goal of its Vertua range of low-carbon cement and concrete products accounting for more than half of all cement and concrete sales by 2025. Fo...
Norfund invests in Continental Blue Investments Ghana
Norfund, the Norwegian investment fund for developing countries, has made a US$7.5m investment in Continental Blue Investments Ghana Ltd (CBI) to support the company’s drive ...
Bedeschi increases Domicem's reclaiming capacity
Bedeschi has been awarded the complete revamping project to be managed by Domicem ( Colacem group ) for the limestone reclaiming system located at the San Cristobal plant, Do...
UK cement and lime producers excluded from compensation scheme
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has expressed disappointment that UK cement and lime producers have been excluded from the government’s compensation scheme for climate c...
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