Armenia extends import ban for six months
Armenia has extended a ban on cement imports from non-Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) countries for another six months, according to ArmenPress. The aim of the ban is to protect ...
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LafargeHolcim joins the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium
LafargeHolcim has joined the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) as a founding member, representing the building materials industry, to accelerate climate action ...
Dewan Cement appoints new CEO
Pakistan’s Dewan Cement has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer and Director, with effect from 27 January. Malik Bilal Omar has been appointed in the ro...
Prism Johnson to raise cement capacity
Prism Johnson Ltd has approved of a 0.9Mta cement capcity expansion at Prism Cement's Satna cement plant, Madhya Pradesh, India. The new capacity will take the plants total ce...
Cement demand in Spain down 10% in 2020
Cement consumption in Spanish has declined by 9.7 per cent to 13.288Mt in 2020, according to the country’s cement association, Oficemen. The drop was already apparent in Janu...
India Cements returns to profit in 3Q
India Cements has reported an INR693m (US$9.48m) net profit for the October-December 2020 period, compared to an INR94.3m net loss in the year-ago quarter. Revenue fell 4.8 p...
Qatar National Cement Co sees net profit down 14%
Qatar National Cement Co has seen a 6.2 per cent YoY fall in sales to QAR659.62m (US$181.2m) in 2020, against QAR703.03m in the previous year. Net profit also declined 13.8 pe...
Shree Digvijay Cement sees 17% rise in revenue
India’s Shree Digvijay Cement has announced a 17.2 per cent YoY increase in standalone revenue to INR1.43bn (US$19.69m) for the December 2020 quarter, compared to INR1.22bn in ...
GCM to build 0.64Mta plant in Burkina Faso
General Community Management (GCM) Industries has started the construction of a 0.64Mta cement plant on a 7ha plot in the industrial zone of Kossodo, Burkina Faso. The first st...
Ha Tien Cement sees 29% decline in net profit
Vietnam’s Ha Tien Cement has reported a 28.6 per cent YoY fall in net profit to VND153.97bn (US$6.64m) in the final quarter of 2020. Net revenue also declined 3.2 per cent to V...
Flexco and MLT Minet Lacing Technology form strategic partnership in North America
Flexco and MLT Minet Lacing Technology have signed an agreement in which Flexco will be the exclusive source for MLT products in the USA, Canada and Mexico. As part of the agre...
LafargeHolcim to hosts European open innovation day
The European Innovation Council (EIC) and LafargeHolcim are launching a joint EIC Corporate Day dedicated to sustainable construction. With both organisations committed to buil...
GCC sees 2% rise in sales for 4Q20
Mexico's Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) has seen a 1.7 per cent YoY increase in consolidated net sales to US$232.5m for the final quarter of 2020, compared to US$228.6m in t...
Taiheiyo signs capital investment agreement in Solusi Bangun Indonesia
PT Solusi Bangun Indonesia Tbk (SMCB), PT Semen Indonesia Industri Bangunan and Japan-based Taiheiyo Cement Corp signed a capital transfer and inclusion agreement and cement sa...
Mugher Cement Factory seeks production increase
Ethiopia’s Mugher Cement Factory will boost production to increase its share of the market, according to Takele Uma, minister of mines and petroleum. The minister stated that...
WCA launches Gender Focus Network
The World Cement Association (WCA) has launched the Gender Focus Network (GFN), an initiative aiming to improve the representation of women within the global cement community. ...
Humboldt India wins new UltraTech Cement order
Humboldt Wedag India Pvt Ltd (HW India), New Delhi, India, a subsidiary of KHD Humboldt Wedag International AG (KHD), Cologne, Germany, has received a new order from UltraTech...
Cemex supplies largest maintenance airport in Europe
Cemex is supplying cement and concrete for the Teruel Airport Platform, the largest maintenance, repair and operations airport in Europe. Cemex has supplied 30,000t of cement ...
Fosbel acquires Wahl Refractory Solutions LLC
Fosbel has acquired Wahl Refractory Solutions LLC. Wahl Refractory Solutions, Fremont, Ohio, will now conduct business under the name Wahl Refractory Solutions, a Fosbel compan...
INSEE Cement (Lanka) holds child career guidance programme
INSEE Cement (Lanka) Plc has held a ’Find Your Spark', an interactive virtual career guidance programme. The objective of the programme was to equip the children of employee...
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