SIKA acquires Russian mortar company
Sika has agreed to acquire Kreps LLC, a leading mortar manufacturer in Russia. The company offers a wide range of mortar products for interior and exterior finishing, complemen...
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EAPCC appoints new managing director
Kenya’s East African Portland Cement Co (EAPCC) has appointed Daniel Kiprono as its new managing director, with effect from 8 February. Mr Kiprono replaces acting managing di...
US and Puerto Rican Portland and blended cement shipments up 9% in November 2020
Total US and Puerto Rican shipments of Portland and blended cement advanced nine per cent to 8.6Mt in November 2020 when compared with November 2019, according to the US Geolog...
Hanson UK launches green hydrogen power unit
A new green hydrogen power demonstration unit has been developed and installed at Hanson UK's Regen ground granulated blastfurnace slag (GGBS) plant in Port Talbot, south Wale...
Gulf Cement Co sees net loss widen in 2020
UAE-based Gulf Cement Co has posted a net loss of AED273.5m (US$74.47m) in 2020, compared to a net loss of AED26.8m in the previous year. The company’s revenue also declined 2...
Yanbu Cement prepares to shutdown Line No 4 for 60 days
Yanbu Cement announced that its production line No 4 will be shut down for 60 days from the 15 February 2021, in line with the implementation of its strategic plan of modernis...
Cemex appoints representative to the Brandenburg Sustainability Advisory Board
Cemex SAB de CV has appointed Rudiger Kuhn as the Representative of the Economy on the Sustainability Advisory Board for the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany. Rudiger K...
FLSmidth reports 22% decline in cement order intake in 2020
FLSmidth’s order intake in 2020 was on par with last year, comprising 13 per cent growth in mining and a 22 per cent decline in cement. Including currency effects and acquisit...
Cambodia sees 7% rise in production in 2020
Cambodia's five cement factories produced 7.9Mt of product last year, rising seven per cent YoY, despite many construction projects being put on hold throughout the year as a r...
Schwenk invests in cement mill and multichamber silo
Schwenk Zement plans to start operation of an additional cement mill and multichamber cement storage silo at its Broceni plant in Latvia at the end of this year. The completi...
LafargeHolcim and Schlumberger New Energy explore CCS
LafargeHolcim and Schlumberger New Energy will explore the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions. The two companies will study the feasibility of capturing ...
CTP Team presses ahead with ESP conversion at Rohdorfer Zement
CTP Team SRL is currently working at the site of Rohdorfer Zement, Austria, where the assembly activities of a dust emission control project are on-going. The EPC project ...
Southern Cement ships 3Mt of cement through Ipswich
Southern Cement has reached the 3Mt milestone as general cargo vessel MV Arklow Raider arrived from Bilbao into the port of Ipswich, UK, with 4600t of cement. The cement compan...
Cemex is awarded CO2 capture grant from DoE
Cemex SAB de CV has announced that its US operations have been awarded a grant from the US Department of Energy (DoE) to research, engineer and develop a pilot for a breakthrou...
Taiheiyo Cement 9M net profit advances 22% YoY
Japan-based Taiheiyo Cement Corp saw its 9MFY20-21 revenues ended 31 December 2020 slip by 1.6 per cent to JPY652.71bn (US$6.23bn) from JPY662.99 in the year-ago period. Howe...
All of SIG’s cement plants now operate on alternative fuels
PT Semen Indonesia Tbk (SMGR) has released a goal of getting all of its cement plants to operate on alternative fuel. This effort will also support the government’s aim of red...
Cementos Argos wins the silver medal in the sustainability marathon
Thanks to its good social, environmental, and corporate governance practices, Argos, Grupo Argos’ cement company, received the Silver Class distinction in the RobecoSAM Sustain...
CEMBUREAU reacts to Carbon Border Mechanism vote
C EMBUREAU , the European Cement Association, has reacted to the adoption of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee report on Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM...
Lehigh Hanson's US$600m expansion project resumes
Lehigh Cement Company completed construction of a concrete slipform silo as part of resuming its US$600m expasnion project at the Mitchell plant in Texas, USA. Lehigh b...
Mangalam Cement posts 201% rise in net profit
India-based Mangalam Cement reported standalone net profit of INR374.5m (US$5.1m) for the quarter ended 31 December 2020, a 201.1 per cent advance when compared with the equiv...
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