Argentine cement market expands 8% in March
Argentina’s cement demand increased 7.5 per cent YoY to 1,047,194t in March 2022 when compared with March 2021, when consumption reached 974,347t, according to the country’s ce...
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UltraTech Cement preferred bidder for Karnataka limestone
UltraTech Cement (owned by Aditya Birla Group ) has emerged as the preferred bidder in the e-auction for the Diggaon Limestock Block. "The company participated in the e-auct...
Titan to commission new Roanoke terminal upgrade in 2023
Titan America expects to complete work on its new 70,000t dome with truck and rail load-out infrastructure at its Roanoke Cement Co import terminal in Chesapeake (VA) in 2023...
Power Cement's Kiln Line III to resume operations by the end of April 2022
Power Cement Ltd informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on 11 April 2022, that a component of the new Line III of the company’s plant at Nooriabad Industrial Area, Kalo Koh...
Cemex Rüdersdorf to help produce aviation fuel
Cemex is joining forces with integrated chemicals and energy company Sasol ecoFT and renewable energy company E NERTRAG in a milestone project that will combine CO 2 with h...
AfriSam supplies N3 highway construction
Work is proceeding apace on the N3, one of South Africa’s most vital arterial highways, between Durban and Pietermaritzburg. Road upgrades, including extensive bridge work, are...
Brazil cement sales stable in March
Cement sales in Brazil remained stable at 5.5Mt in March 2022 when compared with March 2021, according to the country’s cement association, SNIC. When compared with February 20...
Swiss cement market sees 10% pick-up in 1Q22
Cement deliveries in Switzerland increased 10.2 per cent to 950,556t in the first quarter of 2022 when compared with 862,210t in the 1Q21, according to the Swiss cement associa...
Aumund refurbish world's tallest bucket elevator
ACC Cement Ltd ( Holcim Group ) has commissioned the refurbishment of the world's tallest belt bucket elevator, which is 175.3m high. The elevator supplied by Aumund Engineer...
Titan Cement Group releases its 2021 Integrated Annual Report
Titan Cement Group has published its 2021 integrated annual report, which outlines the group's financial, as well as environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. T...
ELEX complete cold start-up of Ragland ESP unit
The cold start-up of an ELEX's new electrostatic precipitator (ESP) at National Cement's ( Vicat group ) Ragland cement plant in the USA has been successfully completed. T...
Holcim publishes agenda for 2022 AGM
The Holcim annual general meeting will take place on 4 May 2022 at 10am CEST at company headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. In accordance with applicable Swiss COVID-19 legisla...
Hanson to build UK's first net-zero cement plant
Hanson UK ( HeidelbergCement ) plans to build the UK’s first net-zero cement factory at a facility in north Wales. Hanson is aiming to capture up to 800,000t of CO 2 per year ...
Borneo Oil increases investment in Sabah cement plant
Borneo Oil Bhd increased its investment to MYR50.7m (US$12m) in Sabah’s first integrated clinker and cement plant, which is expected to be commissioned by the 3Q22. The plant i...
Senegalese cement sales see 6% upturn in January
In January 2022 Senegal’s cement market expanded 8.9 per cent when compared with December 2021 and 6.2 per cent when compared with January 2021, says the country’s National Age...
Taiwan Cement reports 2% rise in March revenue
Taiwan Cement saw its revenue increase two per cent to TWD9971.65m (US$342.96m) in March 2022 from TWD9779.716m. In the first quarter of 2022 the company posted a revenue o...
Cemex signs alternative fuel agreement with 3M
Cemex has expanded its use of alternative fuels with an agreement with 3M in Panama to process their industrial waste. This collaboration aligns with Cemex’s Future in Action...
ACC Ltd receives first fly ash consignment from Vedanta Aluminium
Vedanta Aluminium has supplied its first rake consignment of 4000t of fly ash from Jharsuguda unit to one of the plants of ACC Ltd for the production of low-carbon cement. ...
CSN prepares to rival Votorantim and InterCement
This week the Brazilian anti-trust organisation, CADE, passed Companhia Siderurgica Nacional's (CSN) first hurdle in its attempt to fully acquire the Holcim Brasil enterprise f...
US Portland and blended cement market expands in January
Portland and blended cement shipments in the USA and Puerto Rico, including imports, edged up to 6.6Mt in January 2022, according to the US Geological Survey USGS). The largest...
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