Dangote's Edo plant is ready to start production
Dangote Cement's US$1bn plant in Edo, Nigeria, is completed and set for commissioning. The plant has a cement production capacity of 6Mta and is built on a 100ha plot. Th...
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UltraTech Cement announce net sales of INR116.9bn
UltraTech Cement Co reported that its consolidated net sales in 1QFY22 reached INR116.9bn (US$1.57bn) compared to INR76bn over the corresponding period of the previous year. ...
PPC Zimbabwe expects to repay legacy debt in FY22
PPC Zimbabwe has acknowledged the receipt of US$11.2m under a legacy debts repayment facility. The company had accrued a US$21m debt due to cash flows generated in the count...
Titan's AI optimiser is rolled out across its portfolio
Titan is creating the smart cement plant of the future with a multitude of cutting-edge solutions leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI), in the context of the gr...
Breedon appoint independent non-executive director
Breedon, a leading construction materials group in Great Britain and Ireland, announces that Moni Mannings, non-executive director and chair of the group’s Remuneration Committ...
Breedon Group Plc records 1H21 revenues of GBP600m
Breedon Group Plc has announced unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2021 with revenues reaching GBP600.9m compared with GBP335.3m in the 1H2020. Profit...
JK White Cement installs plant in Kenya
JK White Cement has installed a cement plant in Athi River, Kenya, to manufacture white cement, wall putty, plasters and tile adhesives. The company had been importing the prod...
HeidelbergCement joins Race to Net Zero
HeidelbergCement has signed the Business Ambition for 1.5°C Commitment, a global initiative led by the SBTi in partnership with the UN Global Compact and the 'We Mean Business...
Rock Hard Distributors sees import restrictions claim dismissed
The judicial review claim brought by Trinidad and Tobago-based Rock Hard Distributors and St Lucia-based Rock Hard Distribution Ltd against the Ministry of Trade and Industry a...
Nuvoco Vistas receives approval for its IPO
Nuvoco Vistas Corp Ltd has received approval of capital markets regulator Sebi to launch its INR15bn (US$679.35m) initial public offering (IPO). The Indian cement producer...
Votorantim Cimentos starts operating new Pecém line
Votorantim Cimentos has announced the start of operation of a new production line at its cement site in the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex, in the state of Ceará, Brazil. As...
Cayman Islands expands import list to counter cement shortage
The Cayman Islands has added three countries to its list of approved cement providers to help ease shortages currently being experienced by the domestic construction industry. ...
Taiwan Cement Corp completes majority acquisition of Engie EPS
Taiwan Cement Corp has finalised the acquisition of a 60.48 per cent share of Italy-based energy storage company Engie EPS SA on 20 July 2021, at a price of EUR17.10 per share ...
CSN postpones IPO
Brazilian cement and steelmaker CSN has postponed an initial public offering (IPO) of its cement unit which was expected to be launched in the coming days, newspaper Valor Eco...
Another busy export year for Pakistan’s cement industry
The Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) of Pakistan has released cement export data for the just-concluded FY20-21 (July 2020-June 2021). Both value and quantity of exports ro...
ACC Ltd records 2Q21 profits after tax of INR5.69bn
ACC Ltd (Holcim group) has reported 2Q21 profits after tax of INR5.69bn (US$76m) up from INR2.71bn in 2Q20. In the April-June 2021 period under review, ACC Ltd recorded an...
Carthage Cement posts 61% rise in turnover
Tunisia’s Carthage Cement has posted a 61 per cent YoY rise in turnover to TND163.8m (US$59.09m) for the first half of 2021, against TND102m in the same period of last year. ...
Cementos Pacasmayo posts 286% rise in revenue
Peru's Cementos Pacasmayo has seen its revenue increase 285.7 per cent YoY to PEN440.9m (US$111.64m) in the second quarter of 2021, compared to PEN114.3m in the year-ago period...
Vietnam considers higher cement export tariff
Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) has reportedly proposed that the government consider increasing the export tariffs for clinker to 10 per cent from five per cent, according ...
Matsiloje Portland Cement could reopen by year end
Matsiloje Portland Cement (MPC), one of only two homegrown cement producers in Botswana, is considering a return to production by the end of the year following its closure in ...
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