Lehigh Hanson acquires Meriwether Ready Mix
HeidelbergCement has announced that its North American subsidiary Lehigh Hanson Inc has acquired all assets of Meriwether Ready Mix, a leading producer of ready-mixed conc...
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New CFO for Power Cement
Power Cement Ltd has appointed Irfan Sikandar Bawa as CFO with effect from 4 April 2022, succeeding Tahir Iqbal, according to the company’s filing to the Pakistan Stock Excha...
Colombian cement market expands 3% in February
Domestic dispatches in Colombia edged up by 2.6 per cent to 1.107Mt in February 2022 from 1.079Mt in February 2021, according to the country’s statistics office, DANE. Dispat...
Titan Cement introduces digital transformation to Egyptian plants
Titan Cement ’s in-house proprietary advanced analytics methodology has been successfully rolled out in the company’s two cement plants in Egypt , following the successful im...
Yamama Cement signs SAR1.633bn financing agreement
Yamama Cement Co signed a Shariah-compliant financing agreement on 31 March for SAR1.663bn (US$435.4m) with Saudi National Bank, the cement producer said in a statement to t...
Sinai Cement reports higher sales, narrow loss in 2021
Egypt-based Sinai Cement Co , owned by Vicat , reported a 61.9 per cent increase in sales to EGP1.44bn (US$78.8m) in 2021 when compared with 2020 when the company sold to a v...
Votorantim Cimentos' regional results in 2021 reach almost record levels
Votorantim Cimentos reported close to record growth in all regions for its performance in 2021 with total cement sales of 37.2Mt across all regions. “Our business strat...
Plycem invests US$3m in microconcrete sheet production
Plycem ( Elementia Group ) has announced the investment of US$3m in its manufacturing plant located in Cartago. With this, it seeks the automation of a new production line fo...
Calcined clays: making a global impact
This week FLSmidth announced that it would be supporting the largest calcined clay installation in the world in Ghana for CBI Ghana at its Accra plant. It is a good time to loo...
Votorantim Cimentos reports net profits of BRL1.6bn in 2021
Votorantim Cimentos ended 2021 with net profit of BRL1.6bn (US$337m), an increase of 244 per cent compared to 2020, primarily due to better operating results with growth in s...
Lafarge Algeria exports 0.9Mt in 1Q22
Holcim -owned Lafarge Algérie has exported nearly 0.9Mta of cement and clinker in the first quarter of 2022. The volume represents an 87 per cent rise when compared with the...
Davenport plant switches to Portland limestone cement production
Summit Materials Inc announces that its Davenport plant , operated by Continental Cement Co LLC, has converted 100 per cent of its annual production to Portland limestone c...
Uzbek Commodity Exchanges trades 0.944Mt of cement in 2M22
In the January-February 2022 period, Uzbekistan’s Commodity Exchange has traded 943,500t of cement, of which 864,300t, or 91.6 per cent, were sold at an average price of UZS546...
Reon Energy to install 34MW solar power project for Lucky Cement
Lucky Cement and Reon Energy have announced a 34MW captive solar power project with a 5.589MWh Reflex energy storage. The project, set to be installed at Lucky Cement's Pez...
Cemex expands Florida concrete block business
Cemex has announced that as part of its continued strategic growth strategy, it is expanding its concrete block business in Florida, recently restarting two plants and soon re...
Essential reference explores the cement industry’s digital transformation
Intelligent and sustainable cement production A new publication providing an in-depth exploration of the digital transformation of cement production with practic...
Canada's Cement Association claims the industry can't reach net-zero alone
Set to be released in 2022, Canada’s cement and industry roadmap to net-zero concrete will be unique to Canada’s economy and policy environment, while aligning with its interna...
FLSmidth to supply World's largest calcined clay installation
FLSmidth has won an order to supply CBI Ghana Ltd’s cement plant outside of Accra in southern Ghana with the world’s largest clay calcination installation. The facility wil...
Birla's Mukutban plant begins clinker dispatch
Birla Corp ’s newest cement plant, Reliance Cement Co ’s Mukutban integrated plant, has started dispatching clinker. The clinker is being delivered to the company’s nearest g...
Holcim, thyssenkrupp and Berlin University participate in amine scrubbing project
thyssenkrupp Uhde, Holcim and the Technische Universität Berlin have partnered up in a joint project to investigate the use of a novel amine scrubbing technology for carbon cap...
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