Cambodia produces 1.5Mt of cement in 2M22
Cambodia’s cement producers manufactured 1,524,248t of cement in January-February 2022, up by 2.1 per cent when compared with a production of 1,493,212t in the 2M21, according ...
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Lafarge's Richmond plant to focus solely on OneCem production
Marking a big shift in helping to reduce CO 2 emissions in construction across western Canada, Lafarge (Holcim group) has announced that its Richmond plant will manufacture on...
Holcim to exit Russian cement market
Holcim will leave the Russian market. It is the latest western company to quit the country following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Holcim operates three intergrated grey c...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering and Tokuyama Corp to start carbon capture project
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering Ltd (MHIE), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd (MHI), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Tokuyama Cor...
Riyadh Cement sees 4% drop in net profits in 2021
Saudi cement company Riyadh Cement Co posted a 3.8 per cent decline in net profits after zakat and tax to SAR211.64m in 2021, when compared with 2020 when net profits after z...
Continental Cement's Davenport dome is erected
Continental Cement ( Summit Materials Group ) has recently inflated its new cement storage dome at its Davenport cement plant, Iowa, USA. When completed, Davenport 's 125...
Mannok's sales director becomes vice chairperson of MPANI
Paddy Mohan, Mannok's Cement sales director, has taken the role of Vice Chairperson for the Mineral Products Association Northern Ireland (MPANI), an industry body which repr...
Cemex releases its 2021 integrated annual report
Cemex has launched its 2021 Integrated Report: 'Building a Better Future,' which includes a comprehensive analysis of the company’s strategic vision, operational performance,...
Northern Region Cement Co announces net profits of SAR107m in 2021
Northern Region Cement Co has achieved net profits after zakat (charitable donations) and tax worth SAR106.67m (US$28.4m) in 2021, a decline of 1.4 per cent from SAR108.22m i...
Malawi launches calcined clay project
Malawi's State Vice President, Dr Saulosi Klaus Chilima, has officially launched the country’s Limestone Calcined Clay Cement project at the Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe. T...
Shree Cement starts commercial production at Baloda Bazar
Shree Cement has started commercial production at company's Kiln No 3 clinkerisation unit at Baloda Bazar , near Raipur in Chhattisgarh, India. The facility has a clinker...
Buzzi Unicem records strong growth in Italy in 2021
Buzzi Unicem has announced its consolidated financial results of 2021 which saw cement and clinker sales rise by 6.7 per cent to 31.2Mt from 29.25Mt in 2020. EBITDA reac...
Anhui Conch reports drop in profit in 2021
China-based Anhui Conch saw its profit slip to CNY33.3bn (US$5.2bn) in 2021 when compared with CNY35.19bn in the previous year, according to Dow Jones Newswires. The company’...
Shiva Cement received environmental clearance for Orissa plant expansion
India-based Shiva Cement , owned by JSW Cement , has received environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to expand its cement plant i...
Kinshasa cement price increases
The price of cement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, has increased to CDF22,000 (US$11.02) from CDF17,500 a week ago. The increase has been attributed to the strong...
Petcoke-coal discount returns to neutral zone
Since ICR’s most recent energy report, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shocks into the energy complex. While oil revisited its all-time high of US$140, it has since fallen ...
Mannok Cement hosts research team from Denmark
Mannok Cement has hosted a team of six senior student researchers from the Technical University of Denmark. The students are part of a project, which also includes FLSmidth a...
Suez Cement Group appoints new CEO
Effective 1 May, José Maria Magrina, who led the Suez Cement Group of Companies as CEO for the last six years, will leave the company and start a new position with HeidelbergC...
HeidelbergCement and Calix reach LEILAC-2 milestone
This week HeidelbergCement and Calix announced that the Low Emissions Intensity Lime And Cement 2 (LEILAC-2) carbon capture project has passed its Financial Investment Decision...
Vietnam market expands 39% in February
Total domestic cement sales in Vietnam reached 3,538,333t in February 2022, up 39 per cent YoY but down 14 per cent when compared with January 2022, according to the Vietnam Na...
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