Udayapur Cement Industry looks to increase production
Nepal’s state-owned Udayapur Cement Industry has announced plans to increase production capacity to 800tpd from 350tpd, according to the New Business Age. General Manager, G...
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Penden Cement Authority suffers dust emission release
Residents of Gomtu town in Samtse, Bhutan, say dust particles from the Penden Cement Authority Ltd's (PCAL) plant have been causing pollution. Residents reported thick dust p...
Breedon appoints Managing Director of GB Contracting
Breedon Group has appointed James Haluch as managing director of its GB Contracting business. He will join in March and will report to the group's chief executive. Mr Hal...
Inform appoints four new co-CEOs to further company expansion
Inform has announced four new co-CEOs to join Adrian Weiler, the company's CEO since 1986, who continues in his leadership role. Dr Andreas Meyer, Matthias Berlit, Peter Freric...
Hama Cement sees cement production reach 1.06Mt in 2020
The Syrian Co for the Manufacture of Cement and Building Materials (Hama Cement) has reported 1.06Mt of cement production for 2020. Clinker production also reached 714,000t dur...
Argentine cement consumption surges 33% in December
Cement demand in Argentina has seen a 33.3 per cent rise to 976,939t in December 2020 from 732,734t in December 2019, according to AFCP, the country’s cement association. The ...
Philippine government's first testing facility set to open in 3Q21
The Philippines could see its first government facility to evaluate cement quality begin operations by the 3Q21. Once operational, the unit would allow producers to have their ...
Swiss cement demand falls 3% in 4Q20
Cement deliveries in Switzerland, including Liechtenstein, slipped 3.1 per cent YoY to 1,002,614t in the 4Q20, down from 1,034,914t in the 4Q19, according to cemsuisse, the Swi...
Vietnam's cement and clinker sales rise 2% in 2020
Vietnam’s total sales of cement and clinker has been estimated at 101.5Mt for 2020, representing a rise of 1.5 per cent over 2019. According to a report by SSI Research, dom...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh enters aggregates market
Stocks of LafargeHolcim Bangladesh on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rose 9.8 per cent after the company announced it will be entering the aggregate business. LafargeHolc...
Record production at Caribbean Cement in 2020
Caribbean Cement Company (TCL/Cemex group) says it reached a new record in 2020 by manufacturing more than 940,000t of cement in response to market demand in Jamaica. "The...
Indian railways see 26% rise in cement freight
The volume of cement transported by Indian railways increased 26 per cent YoY in the September-December quarter to 35.5Mt, according to the Ministry of Railways. This also repr...
BUA Cement sees growth in Nigerian market
This week, BUA Cement completed its NGN115bn (US$291bn) Series 1 corporate bond issue. The company is set on an expansion programme that will result in its production capacit...
Cement demand slips 1% in Morocco in December
Cement demand in Morocco declined 0.8 per cent YoY to 1.18Mt in December 2020, according to the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism. Deliveries to the infrastructure segment inc...
Asia Cement Corp reports 3% increase in December revenue
Taiwan’s Asia Cement Corp has reported a 2.5 per cent YoY increase in revenue to TWD8.32bn (US$297.2m) for December 2020, compared with TWD8.12bn in the year-ago period. In t...
PT Semen Padang exports 1.5Mt in 2020
Indonesia’s PT Semen Padang has announced it exported more than 1.5Mt of cement and clinker to various destinations during 2020, including Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Myanmar,...
Cemex announces pricing of US$1.75bn senior secured notes
Cemex SAB de CV announced the price of US$1.75bn of its 3.875 per cent senior secured notes due in 2031 and denominated in US dollars. The notes have a semi-annual intere...
Holcim Philippines releases a new dry mortar
Holcim Philippines Inc has developed a new multipurpose mortar product that is a dry-mix solution for high-quality walls, floors and tile building projects. Called Holcim M...
Solidia Technologies is named as a Global Cleantech 100 company
Cleantech Group has named Solidia Technologies ® as a 2021 Global Cleantech 100 company for the fourth year in a row. The Global Cleantech 100 list recognises companies that ...
US Portland and blended cement deliveries up 3%
Shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports in the USA and Puerto Rico, increased by three per cent YoY to 9.8Mt in October 2020, according to the US Geological...
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