Semen Indonesia looks forward to 4% FY22 expansion
Semen Indonesia expects to grow 3-5 per cent YoY in FY22, up from two per cent in FY21 as the key market for bagged cement (mainly for home renovations and small home cluster ...
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Private sector supports corruption case against Nepalese cement sector
Three umbrella organisations representing the private sector have protested against the corruption case filed by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIA...
Argos awarded S&P Global Gold Class Award in 2022 Sustainability Yearbook
For promoting and implementing excellent environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) practices and for being recognised as a world leader in sustainability in the co...
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) petitions against plant closure orders
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd (DCBL), a wholly-owned material subsidiary of Dalmia Bharat Ltd has received an order dated 19 January 2022, from the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Cont...
HeidelbergCement releases preliminary guidance for 2021 results
In the course of the preparation of the consolidated financial statements of HeidelbergCement AG for the FY21, the revenue and results of the HeidelbergCement Group are in p...
Holcim partner Eni for CO2 demonstration plant
Italian oil major Eni is collaborating with Holcim to develop an innovative technology for the use of CO 2 in a perspective of circularity and decarbonisation. The techno...
AfriSam executive calls for responsible cement manufacture
Hannes Meyer, cementitious executive at leading cement producer AfriSam, calls for improved an circular economy, responsible manufacturing practices and a level playing field ...
Orient Cement sees 3Q profit fall by 19% YoY
CK Birla-owned Orient Cement reported an 18.9 per cent decline in net profit to INR436.7m (US$5.84m) for the third quarter, ended 31 December 2021. In the equivalent quarter ...
South African cement imports up 19% in 11M21
Cement imports into South Africa surged to their highest level in 2021 as they reached 161,555t in November despite the government drive to use domestically-produced product an...
Puerto Rico sees 8-year high in cement sales
Puerto Rican cement sales in 2021 reached 15.6m bags, or 679,300t - a high not seen in eight years, according to the country’s Statistics Institute. This represents a 12.5 per ...
East African Cement Co looks to DR Congo for increased cement sales
East African Portland Cement Co (EAPCC) is looking to target cement sales in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “In the past 10 years, EAPCC has been missing from the inf...
Caribbean Cement to pay 2% royalty fees to Cemex
Following shareholder approval Caribbean CementCo Ltd will pay two per cent royalties to its parent company Cemex from January 2022. The agreed fee is equivalent to two per cen...
Madagascar imports 12,000t of cement
The Madagascan state, through the Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and Consumption, has imported 12,000t of Lucky Cement at reduced prices. The arrival of the cement should...
Prime Minister visits Hanson quarry to discuss HyNet North West CCS project
Prime Minster Boris Johnson, visited Hanson’s Penmaenmawr quarry in north Wales, on 28 January, to see how the company’s recent investment in the site is allowing aggregates to...
Cemex acquires urban waste treatment company
Cemex has announced the acquisition of Broquers Ambiental (Broquers), a sustainable company that focusses on the separation, recovery, and treatment of urban solid waste genera...
A new cement industry player emerges in Northern Ireland
This week Holcim continued its divestment strategy by selling its Northern Ireland cement business to the newly-formed Cookstown Cement Ltd . The total sale amounts to GBP55...
BUA Cement brings Kalambaina Line 4 online
On 27 January Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated BUA Cement ’s 3Mta Line 4 at the company’s Kalambaina cement plant in Sokoto, Nigeria. "I am pleased that throu...
FLSmidth updates financial guidance for 4Q21 and 2021 performance
FLSmidth updated its preliminary full year 2021 revenue guidance replacing its financial guidance provided on 11 November 2021. This improvement was primarily driven by the Ca...
Českomoravský Cement plans CZK300m sustainability investment into Radotín
Czech cement producer Českomoravský Cement is preparing an investment of CZK300m (US$13.71m) to improve the environmental performance of its Radotín plant. The purchase of ...
Bizerte reports 18% increase in sales in 2021
Tunisia-based Les Ciments de Bizerte reported a 17.8 per cent advance in revenues to TND130.8m (US$45.1m) in 2021 from TND111m in 2020. Domestic sales increased by five per...
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