Qassim Cement Co plans 30MW solar power plant
Saudi Arabia's Qassim Cement Co will mandate a consulting firm to help with the preparations for a 30MW solar plant at its site in Buraydah city. Qassim Cement produces abou...
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Two Pakistan cement plants complete power projects
Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd (ACPL) and Flying Cement Co Ltd (FCCL) have both opened new power plants in Pakistan. ACPL informed the Pakistan Stock Exchange that its 20MW solar...
Orient Cement sees start-up of new solar plant
India-based Orient Cement will receive 50 per cent of its annual energy needs at its Maharashtra cement plant thanks to the start-up of a new solar plant. The 13.5MW solar powe...
Arabian Cement expects start Rabigh mills for 4Q22
While completion of the new cement mills at Arabian Cement Co’s Rabigh plant in Saudi Arabia has reached 99.5 per cent, the project’s contractor, CNBM, has not been able to ent...
Cemex to sell Costa Rica and El Salvador operations to Cementos Progreso
Mexico-based Cemex has signed an agreement for the sale of its operations in Costa Rica and El Salvador with Guatemala’s Cementos Progeso Holdings, for the amount of US$335m, t...
Coal stabilising while petcoke continues lower
By Frank O. Brannvoll, Brannvoll ApS, Denmark Since ICR’s most recent energy report , the price of coal has stabilised and started to move higher after sharp falls in Novem...
Caribbean Cement Co provides solution for Riverton waste tyres
More than 2m used tyres will be removed from the Riverton City disposal site in St Andrew, Jamaica, as part of a 10-year project, which is expected to be expanded to other refu...
Belarusian commodity exchange sees 64% rise in cement exports
The Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) saw a 64 per cent YoY increase in cement export transactions in January-December 2021 to US$15.2m, according to the exchange’...
Kohat Cement establishes a letter of credit for Punjab plant
Kohat Cement Co Ltd (KOHC) has informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) that the company has established a letter of credit for the import of plant and equipment for the pyro-pro...
Cambodian cement production reached 7.9Mt in 11M21
Cambodia’s five cement factories produced 7.9Mt over the 11 months from January-November 2021, a slight decrease compared to the volume recorded in 2020, according to the Cambo...
Qassim Cement to establish new cement mill at Buraydah
Qassim Cement, Saudi Arabia, has entered into a preliminary agreement with the Chinese company, CDI, for the engineering, supply and construction of a new cement mill to be ins...
Dalmia Bharat launches electric truck initiative
Dalmia Bharat, India, has launched an electric truck initiative, which will see the first two high capacity electric trucks deployed out of a proposed fleet of 22 vehicles to b...
Vietnam cement production reached 101.2Mt in 2021
Vietnam is estimated to have produced 101.2Mt of cement in 2021, up 2.6 per cent YoY, according to the latest data from the government-run General Statistics Office (GSO). I...
Umm Al-Qura Cement Company granted limestone exploration license
Umm Al-Qura Cement Company, Saudi Arabia, announced the issuance of an exploration license for limestone on 28 December 2021 from the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources...
Natal Portland Cement secures five-year loan
As part of Natal Portland Cement’s (NPC) strategy to enhance its capital structure and investments opportunities, company CEO and Chairman, Matias Cardell has announced the a...
Two FLSmidth OK mill projects are completed in Bangladesh
FLSmidth has successfully completed two vertical roller mill (VRM) projects in Bangladesh. The two mills were ordered by Premier Cement Mills Ltd. The FLSmidth OK 71-6 cemen...
Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe Ltd appoint new CEO
Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe Ltd (Holcim group) has appointed Mr Geoffrey Ndugwa as the new CEO. Prior to his appointment, Mr Ndugwa was the CEO of Lafarge Malawi between Decembe...
Udaipur Cement Works Ltd wins the Greentech sustainability Award 2021
Udaipur Cement Works Ltd (UCWL), a subsidiary of JK Lakshmi Cement Ltd, has won the Greentech Sustainability Award 2021 under the 'Excellence in Affordable & Clean Energy' cate...
Hon Chong plant wins 2021 Energy Efficiency Industry prize
INSEE Cement's Hon Chong plant is honoured to be the only construction material manufacturer to receive Vietnam’s Energy Efficiency in Industry Award 2021. During the pas...
2021 in review
2021 has seen the dramatic rebalancing and recovery of global cement markets, the majority of which have made up for ground lost to the pandemic in 2020. Among the largest m...
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