Chilean cement demand advances 2% in December
Cement consumption in Chile increased 2.3 per cent YoY to 373,351t in December 2021, reports the Chilean Chamber of Construction (CChC). For the full-year 2021 total cement d...
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Dal wins German rotary dryer project
Dal wins order for a new dryer at a Otterbein Turkish engineering and turnkey supplier, DAL has been awarded a project to replace the complete limestone rotary d...
Morocco sees 9% uptick in January cement deliveries
Cement sales in Morocco by APC members (Asment Temara, Ciments de l’Atlas, Ciments du Maroc and LafargeHolcim Maroc) increased by 8.8 per cent YoY to 1,128,552t in January 2022...
Flender to acquire Moventas
Flender has reached an agreement to acquire Finnish wind turbine gearbox manufacturer Moventas from investor N4 partners. The planned acquisition marks the next step in Flend...
Buzzi Unicem FY21 preliminary regional results see 7% rise in cement sales
Cement sales of the Buzzi Unicem group amounted to 31.2Mt in 2021, increasing by 6.7 per cent when compared to 2020. Ready-mix concrete output, which stood at 12.1Mm 3 , was ...
Tokyo Cement (Lanka) reports 20% increase in revenues
Tokyo Cement Group reported a 20 per cent advance in its turnover to LKR13.771bn (US$68.1m) for the third quarter ended 31 December 2021 when compared with LKR11.456bn in the...
Lafarge Canada Inc orders wind power plant for Exshaw works
Lafarge Canada Inc (Holcim group) has entered into a purchase power agreement (PPA) with Calgary-based electricity company, TransAlta Corp (TransAlta) for a 100GWh/year of w...
Strabag wins contractor order for Malogoszcz modernistion project
Lafarge (Holcim group) cement plant in Małogoszcz has appointed Strabag company is the contractor for the modernisation of its new clinker line. The scope of works by S...
Cemex signs up companies to its Working Smarter digitalisation program
Cemex has signed separate multi-year contracts that range from five to seven years totalling US$500m with six leading service providers under its Working Smarter digital tran...
Geda speeds up progress at Marker-Zement's new kiln line
Two GEDA devices will be installed permanently at Marker-Zement GmbH Preparations have been moving ahead at full speed since summer 2020 at Marker-Zement GmbH , ...
Cementir records 11.2Mt of cement and clinker sales in 2021
During 2021, Cementir’s cement and clinker sales volumes reached 11.2Mt, up 4.1 per cent compared to 2020 thanks to a favourable trend in all countries. Sales volumes...
Bangladesh export dispatches rise in 7MFY22
Bangladesh’s cement industry has earned export revenue of US$4.66m in the seven months of FY21-22 (July 2021-January 2022), compared to US$4.42m in the year-ago period. This re...
Bolivian demand down 14% in October, up 8% in November
Bolivia’s cement market contracted by 13.8 per cent YoY to 329,982t in October 2021 but when compared with October 2019, the decline in demand was 13.1 per cent, according to t...
Heriot-Watt University accelerates efforts to decarbonise the cement industry
A ground-breaking project led by Heriot-Watt University is accelerating efforts to decarbonise the energy-intensive cement industry. The innovative government, industry and ac...
Ash Grove Cement cuts ribbon on Port Manatee ship unloader
Ash Grove Cement (CRH group) unveiled its brand-new state-of-the-art ship unloader with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Port Manatee deep water import terminal in Florida, US...
High interest remains in Norcem's Brevik CCS project
Norcem's (HeidelbergCement group) carbon capture project in Brevik has been ongoing since January last year with demolition and preparations to receive the capture plant. ...
Colombia cement deliveries up 7% in December
Colombian cement sales increased by 7.6 per cent YoY to 1.135Mt in December 2021 from 1.054Mt in December 2020, according to the country’s statistics office, DANE. Of this tota...
Argentina’s market contracts 2% in January
Argentina’s cement market saw a two per cent contraction to 877,200t in January 2022 when compared with January 2021 when sales reached 895,416t, reports the country’s cement a...
VICEM sees 29.4Mt of cement and clinker sold in 2021
Vietnam-based Vietnam Cement Industry Corp (VICEM) sold 29.44Mt of cement and clinker in 2021, reflecting stable sales when compared with 2020, according to local media. VI...
Saudi cement sales fall 6% to 4.9Mt in January
The total sales of 17 Saudi cement producers fell per cent to 4.9Mt in January, compared to 5.2Mt in the same month last year, according to recent data issued by Yamama Cem...
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