Hillhead postponed until June 2022
Following a review of the UK government’s roadmap to ease COVID-19 restrictions announced on 22 February, the QMJ Group has decided to postpone the Hillhead event by 12 months....
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New cement project set to begin in Ethiopia
Lemi National Cement Industrial Complex, a new private industrial park, is set to be built in the Amhara region of Ethiopia by private investors, according to The Swazi Observe...
Argentine demand advances 18% in February
Argentina’s cement market expanded by 18.2 per cent YoY but contracted 9.3 per cent MoM to 686,602t in February 2021, according to the country's cement association, AFCP. The m...
Ghana reports cement price increase
Ghana has reported a small rise in cement prices due to an increase in the cost of imported clinker in recent days. A bag of cement which was earlier sold for GHS38 (US$6.62) i...
Taiwan Cement Corp reports 5% rise in revenue
Taiwan Cement Corp has reported a 9.3 per cent YoY decline in revenue to TWD4.54bn (US$160.19m) for February 2021, compared with TWD5bn in the year-ago period. In the first t...
Cemex Dominicana plans to recommission kiln line
Cemex announced that it expected to recommission one of its product lines at the San Pedro de Macoris plant in the Dominican Republic. This would imply an increase of 33 per ce...
Argos recycles 7m cement bags
Since the start of its Sacos Verdes (Green Bags) initiative in 2013, Colombia’s Argos, has recycled 7m bags. This year alone, 15,910 bags were recycled. The company’s customer...
Refratechnik Group and Höganäs Borgestad Group establish strategic agreement
Refratechnik Group and Höganäs Borgestad Group have entered into a strategic agreement for the supply of refractory products. "The similar operating philosophies of both organ...
Cemento Melón expects to bring online Punta Arenas plant by June
Chile-based Cemento Melón expects to see its new US$30m Punta Arenas grinding plant to be commissioned by June 2021, reports La Prensa Austral. The plant is located 8.5km north...
WCA's Gender Focus Network promotes gender equality in the cement sector
In late 2020 the World Cement Association launched the Gender Focus Network (GFN) with the aim of tackling gender inequality in the cement industry and making the sector more a...
UNACEM reports improved 4Q but decline in 2020
Peruvian cement producer Unión Andina de Cementos (UNACEM) saw its revenues advance by 16.2 per cent YoY in the 4Q20, driven by a 14.5 per cent increase in dispatches in Peru w...
Kalambaina Cement to launch second line in July
Nigeria's Kalambaina Cement (BUA Cement) is set to launch its 3Mta second line in July this year, which is expected to increase supply and stabilise the price of cement, accord...
Tabuk Cement sees profits rise 113% in 2020
Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk Cement has seen its net profit surge 113.2 per cent to SAR51.58m (US$13.75m) in 2020, compared with SAR24.19m in the previous year. The increase in prof...
PT Semen Padang announces export volumes
Indonesia’s PT Semen Padang has announced its export volumes of cement and clinker in January and February 2021. The deliveries were made to the Maldives, Australia and Banglad...
Southern Cement records sales of SAR1653m in 2020
Southern Cement reported sales in 2020 of SAR1653m (US$440.8m), up 27 per cent YoY due to an increase in sales volume which increased by 24 per cent YoY, while net income for t...
Taking pyroprocessing to the next level
Cemtech hosted its March webinar on advanced pyroprocessing and kiln control technologies this week, which provided a glimpse into the future of the carbon-neutral kiln, alongs...
Vietnamese cement market expands 77% in January
Cement deliveries in Vietnam surged 77 per cent YoY to 5.079Mt in January 2021. However, MoM they fell by 16 per cent, reports the Vietnam National Cement Association (VNCA). O...
CNBM begins restructuring cement business
China National Building Materials (CNBM) has begun restructuring its cement business and has subsequently sold China United Cement, Sinoma Cement, as well as a 99.9 per cent st...
Stock depletion temporarily stops Cimenterie Nationale deliveries
Lebanon-based Cimenterie Nationale has announced it will stop deliveries temporarily on 6 March due to the depletion of its stock. According to L’Orient-Le Jour, the cement p...
Shree Cement places WHR order
India’s Shree Cement has placed an order for two WHR boilers from ISGEC Heavy Engineering for its Raipur plant. A PH boiler will be set up at the preheater exhaust, while an ...
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