Shree Cement starts trials at Chattisgarh clinker unit
India-based Shree Cement has started trial run of its new clinkerisation unit (Kiln 3) at its integrated plant in Baloda Bazar, near Raipur in Chhattisgarh. The Baloda Bazar ...
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Puerto Rican cement sales decline 13% in February
In February 2022 cement sales in Puerto Rico declined 13.3 per cent YoY to 1.18m bags of 94lb, or 50,312t, according to Puerto Rico’s Institute of Statistics. However, cement ...
FLSmidth wins Gladstone Ports Corp's shiploader order
FLSmidth has been awarded the contract to build Gladstone Ports Corp’s (GPC) new shiploader 1 on site in Queensland, Australia. The contract also includes the decommissioning o...
Cementos Molins Industrial invests EUR2.2m in environmental improvements
Cementos Molins Industrial 's long history of commitment to the protection of the natural and environmental surroundings has been made clear in 2021 through an investment of E...
Geocycle to double capacity at Córdoba RDF facility
Holcim subsidiary Geocycle and the Municipality of Córdoba, Argentina, have signed an agreement to double the capacity of Geocycle’s waste processing plant at Piedra Blanca l...
Philippine government urges cement producers to use plastic waste
To help reduce the country’s solid waste generation by at least 40 per cent Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has requested cement producers to ...
Lafarge France invests EUR46m to reduce carbon emissions
To produce cements with a reduced carbon impact in its plants in Saint-Pierre-la-Cour (Mayenne) and Bouc-Bel-Air (Bouches-du-Rhône), Lafarge France (Holcim group) will in...
Christian Pfeiffer supplies Dyckerhoff's Deuna cement plant
In December Christian Pfeiffer delivered a mill head with welded-on mill shot for a raw mill for Dyckerhoff ’s Deuna cement plant in Germany. Due to the on-time delivery ...
Ghana to look at regulating cement industry
Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry has announced plans to set up a committee to advance the drafting of policies to regulate the country’s cement industry, according to loc...
Concrete-AI joins WCA
The World Cement Association has welcomed Concrete-AI as associate corporate member. Concrete-AI is based in Los Angeles, USA, and provides an artificial intelligence (AI) and ...
Bamburi Cement to raise prices as costs escalate
Kenya-based Bamburi Cement ( Holcim ) plans to increase prices of its products by 2-10 per cent as of 10 March 2022. The company attributed the price rise to higher raw mater...
Al Safwa Cement to pilot microalgae project
To promote the concept of a circular carbon economy and support sustainability, a collaboration contract has been signed between Al Safwa Cement Co and Desert Microalgae Tech...
Iran's cement market expands 5% MoM in February
Iranian cement consumption reached 4.43Mt in February 2022, supplied entirely by the domestic industry, according to the Iranian Cement Association. This represents a 5.2 per c...
British Rema transfers ownership to employees
In a move that demonstrates genuine belief in rewarding loyal staff, manufacturing and engineering business British Rema has transferred ownership of its group of companies in...
El Nahda Cement and ASEC extend technical management contract
The contract between El Nahda Industries ( El Nahda Cement) and The Swiss Arab Engineering Company (ASEC) has been renewed and the cooperation between the two companies will c...
Azul head office seized amid dispute
The Board of Directors of La Cruz Azul, headed by José Antonio Marín and Víctor Manuel Velázquez, took over the company’s offices in Colonia del Valle, Mexico City, on 11 March...
Dalmia Cement's Kattamateru plant is supported by villagers
A public hearing for environmental clearance of the proposed Dalmia Cement Bharat Ltd factory at Kattamateru has been held by the district administration. Nearly 250 people f...
Tudela Veguín halts production for 10 days
Cementos Tudela Veguín has shut down its plant at La Robla for 10 days from Friday, 11 March, citing the soaring electricity prices as the reason for the stoppage. The comp...
Punjab to establish new cement plant
A meeting of India’s Cabinet Committee on Legislative Business chaired by Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Muhammad Basharat Raja, has approved setting up of a new c...
Sunchon raises output
The Sunchon Cement Complex in North Korea has increased cement output to serve rural construction, according to Korean News. The cement plant is reported to produced tens of th...
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