HeidelbergCement reports robust 2021 results despite high energy prices
Germany-based HeidelbergCement posted a 6.3 per cent rise YoY and an eight per cent like-for-like (LfL) rise in revenues to EUR18,720m in 2021 (2020: EUR17,606m). The result ...
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Afyon Cimento increases turnover by 53% in 2021
Çimsa 's subsidiary Afyon Çimento increased its turnover in 2021 by 53 per cent compared to the previous year, from TRY270m (US$19.5m) to TRY413m. Net profits rose from TRY1...
Benin to build 1.6Mta cement plant
The government of Benin plans to build a cement plant with 5000tpd clinker capacity and 1.6Mta of cement capacity. The new plant will have an option to expand its cement capaci...
Energy complex sees uplift on Ukraine-Russia conflict, but discounts are stable
Since ICR’s most recent energy report , Russia’s recognition of the Donbas region in Ukraine and military move into it are lifting the energy complex. As no war has broken out...
Carbon reaches EUR100 in Cal23 – a new all-time high as power generation demands more coal and gas
By Frank O. Brannvoll, Brannvoll ApS, Denmark The EUA Dec 22 has set a new all-time high at EUR98.50, driven by real demand for compliance as especially coal but also gas ...
FCT Combustion delivers Turbu-Flex burner to Hanover plant
FCT Combustion delivered a Turbu-Flex™ burner to HeidelbergCement ’s Hanover plant in Germany earlier this month. The targets of the project are to maximise the use o...
Taiwan Cement and Asia Cement report fall in January revenues
In January 2022 Taiwan Cement Corp reported revenues of TWD7517.896m (US$269.6m), down by seven per cent from TWD8084.465m in January 2021. Asia Cement Corp ’s revenues s...
Añorga plant to undergo electrical energy supervision upgrade
The Spanish Añorga cement factory of Sociedad Financiera y Minera SA ( HeidelbergCement Group) is to install an electrical energy management system. Currently energy me...
Secil and Cimpor to participate in green hydrogen cluster project
A consortium of Portuguese companies will invest more than EUR100m in the country's central region in a project to decarbonise the industry through the use of green hydrogen...
Cement prices in Tanzania to fall?
There was a modest fall in cement production in Tanzania in 2021 as output fell to 6.436Mt when compared with 6.496Mt in 2020, according to data from the National Bureau of Sta...
Peru looks at 25kg cement bags
Peru’s Ministry of Labour and Employment Promotion has started a series of technical meetings with construction unions and companies to lower the weight of cement bags in the c...
Votorantim expands its operations in northeast Brazil
Votorantim Cimentos has opened a new distribution centre in the municipality of Crateús, reinforcing its presence and logistics in the markets of Ceará and Piauí, Brazil. ...
Lafarge Algeria aims to export 3Mt
Holcim -owned Lafarge Algérie has carried out two more export shipments from the port of Oran, Algeria. A cargo of 35,000t of bulk grey cement and a 30,000t shipment of whit...
Buzzi Unicem launched CGreen in Germany and Italy
Buzzi Unicem has launched the new product line called CGreen, a family of CO 2 efficient cements, on the Italian and German markets. CGreen marks the natural evolutio...
Cement demand in El Salvador sees 33% hike in 10M21
Apparent cement consumption in El Salvador increased 33 per cent YoY to 1.437Mt in the 10M21 from 1.086Mt in the 10M20, according to the country’s construction chamber, CASALCO...
Ambuja Cements plans INR35bn capacity upgrade
Ambuja Cements , owned by Switzerland-based Holcim , has announced a INR35bn (US$467m) investment plan for the 7Mta expansion in its existing capacities at Sankrail and Farak...
GCC to modernise Samalayuca plant
GCC has signed an EPC contract with thyssenkrupp Polysius to upgrade the pyroprocess system, at its Samalayuca plant , to increase the clinker production capacity, increase...
Pakistan's cement and clinker exports decline
Pakistan's cement and clinker exports have decreased in the first seven months of the FY21-22. According to local analysts, historically, when domestic demand is booming, exp...
Gebr Pfeiffer commissions Kenyan mill
Gebr Pfeiffer has successfully commissioned third line for cement grinding for Mombasa Cement Ltd, Vpingo , Kenya. The project for Tororo Cement subsidary Mombasa Cem...
Fernando Libonati to lead Business Development at FCT
Fernando Libonati has been appointed as the Head of Business Development for FCT within the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions. Mr Libonati commenced in this role in January...
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