CIMERWA posts a 7% revenue increase
Rwanda's CIMERWA has registered an after-tax profit of RWF4.1bn (US$3.95m) for the year ended September 2021, up 115.8 per cent compared to RWF1.9bn in the previous year. Reven...
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Holcim El Salvador awards solar park contract
Holcim El Salvador awarded the contract for the construction of a solar park to AES El Salvador. The solar power facility would be built at its El Ronco cement plant in Metapan...
Cemex to work with Carbon8 Systems on CCUS
Cemex will work with Carbon8 Systems to evaluate the company’s patented carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) technology and how CO 2 captured during the cement pr...
Huaxin Cement to begin plant operations within three weeks
Huaxin Cement is now expected to start production at its new 3000tpd plant in Nepal within the next three weeks, with the necessary preparations being made. "We are in the p...
Saint-Gobain and Cementos Argos create joint venture
Saint-Gobain and Cementos Argos have entered a joint venture agreement to develop mortar solutions. The partnership will combine Saint-Gobain’s mortar technology with Argos...
Cementir receives A- Climate Change CDP rating
Cementir Holding NV has been awarded an 'A-' rating for Climate Change from CDP, improving from last year 'B' rating and placing Cementir above the cement and concrete s...
US Portland and blended cement market expands 5% in September
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports, in the USA and Puerto Rico advanced 4.5 per cent YoY to 9.8Mt in September 2021, according to the US Geologic...
Cementos Argos to list US business on NYSE
Cementos Argos plans to list its US business on the New York Stock Exchange after several months of analysis. The company will be listed through an initial public offering re...
Tokyo Cement Co imports bagged cement to address shortage
Sri Lanka’s Tokyo Cement Co has begun distributing a shipment of bagged cement to fill a gap created in the market when importers stopped bag cement imports, according to the D...
Saudi Cement sales fall to 4.7Mt in November
The aggregate sales of 17 Saudi cement producers decreased by five per cent to 4.7Mt in November, compared to 4.9Mt in the same month last year, according to Yamama Cement Co....
INSEE Cement ups its game to ease Sri Lankan cement shortages
Operating at maximum production capacity with optimised distribution channels for a number of weeks, INSEE Cement claims it has successfully helped to mitigate the cement shor...
Boston Consulting Group signs Climeworks agreement
Boston Consulting Group (BSG) has signed a 10-year agreement with Climeworks, which will remove part of BCG’s unavoidable CO 2 emissions and therefore, is an important part of...
Hsing Ta Cement sees 9% revenue increase
Taiwan’s Hsing Ta Cement has posted an 8.7 per cent YoY rise in revenue to TWD781.72m (US$28.2m) in November, increasing from TWD719.1m in the year-ago period. In the first 1...
Argentina's cement market sees 5% growth in November
Argentine cement consumption expanded 4.6 per cent in November 2021 to 1,142,140t from 1,092,246t in November 2020, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. Domes...
Cuban cement industry expected to recover in 2022
Cuba’s cement industry is forecast to show significant signs of recovery in 2022 with a production of 1.4Mt of cement, according to the country’s Construction Minister, Réné Me...
South Khorasan exports US$7.2m in 7MFY21-22
Iran’s South Khorasan province exported cement to a value of US$7.209m in the first seven months of the Iranian calendar year (March 2021-October 2022), according to Hamed Hass...
Honduran cement prices frozen until end of 2021
The price of a cement bag in Honduras will remain the same until 31 December 2021, according to the country’s Secretary of Economic Development (SDE), the Honduran Council of P...
Loma Negra inaugurates second line
Loma Negra (InterCement group) has inaugurated its new production line at the L'Amalí plant in Olavarría, Argentina. Together with national, provincial and municipal authori...
Christian Pfeiffer progresses mill order for Cementos Inka
Christian Pfeiffer is installing a new cement grinding plant for Cementos Inka in Peru. The equipment is a 4.2m diameter, 3500kW ball mill and a state-of-the-art QDK 143-...
Top producers receive CDP A-grade environmental ratings
For the third year in a row, HeidelbergCement has received the top A score rating by the global environmental non-profit organisation CDP, while Holcim recorded A- for success...
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