Bolivian cement consumption up 41% in July
Cement demand in Bolivia advanced 40.6 per cent to 325,789t in July 2021 from 231,662t in July 2020 but remained 9.3 per cent below its 2019 level of 359,307t, according to nat...
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SBTi validates Cemex's 2030 global emission targets
The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) has validated Cemex’s 2030 global emissions targets. Cemex’s targets are in accordance with the Paris Agreement, citing global war...
Pakistan’s manufacturing costs rise
Coal FOB prices have increased from US$68/t in September 2020 to over US$210/t during September 2021, says the All Pakistan Manufacturing Cement Manufacturers Association (APCM...
HeidelbergCement divests Spanish assets to Cemex
HeidelbergCement pushes forward its portfolio optimisation programme, and has signed agreements to sell its regional aggregates and ready-mixed concrete businesses in the regi...
JK Lakshmi Cement halts production at its Durg plant
India’s JK Lakshmi Cement has suspended production at its 2.7Mta Durg plant in Chhattisgarh, due to a strike called by the state’s Cement Transport Association. Dispatches fro...
Taiwan Cement Corp invests TWD22.3bn in renewable energy
Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC) has approved three major renewable energy investments, representing a total value of TWD22.3bn (US$799.4m). The company will invest TWD5.5bn on insta...
Pakistan's local and overseas cement dispatches drop during September
Pakistan's local and export dispatches during September 2021 remained depressed, reports All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA). Domestic dispatches stood at 4.0...
InterCement Participações completed BRL1bn debenture amortisation
IInterCement Participações SA (ICP) has concluded the partial amortisation of its debentures for BRL1bn (US$180m). The transaction follows a new debt issuance from its subsid...
Italy's cement output slips 6% in July
Italy's cement production index (base year 2015=100) reached 114 in July 2021, down six per cent when compared with July 2020, according to Federbeton, the Italian cement and c...
Martin Marietta completes Lehigh West Region acquisition
US-based Martin Marietta Materials Inc has successfully completed the acquisition of Lehigh Hanson’s West Region business for US$2.3bn. The acquisition provides the company w...
Udaipur Cement Works Ltd plans solar investment to reduce its CO2 footprint
Udaipur Cement Works Ltd (UCWL), a subsidiary of JK Lakshmi Cement Ltd, is ensuring its energy security through increasing its share of solar-based electricity in the total en...
Saint-Gobain completes Chryso acquisition
Saint-Gobain has confirmed that it has closed the acquisition of Chryso. The acquisition will see Saint-Gobain enter the concrete formulation market and chemical additives for ...
Märker Zement's new kiln is lifted into position
SGS Industrial Services GmbH has announced that the next major steps at the construction site in Harburg, Germany, for Märker Zement’s new kiln line have been achieved. T...
Oficemen appoints new president
José Manuel Cascajero Rodríguez, president of Cemex España Operations, has been elected president of Oficemen. He succeeds Victor García Brosa. He will lead the Spanish cemen...
Argentina's market resurgence
Argentina's economy posted growth of 17.9 per cent YoY in the second quarter of 2021, recovering strongly after the contraction in the same period of 2020. One of the areas dri...
Spanish cement consumption rises 13% in 8M20
Cement consumption in Spain has grown by 13 per cent YoY in the first eight months of the year, reaching 9,581,951t, says Oficemen, Spain's cement association. In the c...
Cimpor to install solar plants at its Portugal works
Portugal’s Cimpor has announced that it will install a photovoltaic plant at each of its three production units in the country. The project is part of an investment package tha...
Algeria’s SSCB exported 25,000t of cement in 9M21
Société Saoura Ciment de Béchar (SSCB), part of Algeria-based GICA, exported 25,000t of cement to African countries such as Mali, Niger and Mauritania since the start of the ye...
Birla Corp plans to reach 30Mta of capacity by 2027
India’s Birla Corp is setting a new target of reaching 30Mta of production capacity by 2027. Its current capacity is 15.6Mta but this is expected to rise to almost 20Mta by the...
Fives Pillard appoints new executive director
Fabien Illy has joined Fives Pillard as its new executive director. Fabien has considerable and international expertise in the combustion industry where he has spent the m...
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