Uzbekistan and South Korea to build Karakalpakstan plant
Uzbekistan and South Korea have been in talks to accelerate the implementation of an investment plan for the construction of a cement works in the Beruni region of Karakalpakst...
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BCMA expects market pick-up in 1Q21
The Bangladesh Cement Manufacturers Association (BCMA) expects cement demand to resume growth by the 1Q21. Between January-August 2020 the cement sector contracted by 7.7 per...
Al Karama announces prequalifiers for Carthage Cement
Al Karama Holding has published the list of prequalified candidates in the sale of the majority stake of Tunisia-based Carthage Cement. It includes domestic companies such as...
Vietnamese market sees 11% drop in October
Cement demand in Vietnam fell by 11 per cent YoY to 4,899,301t in October 2020. However, when compared with September 2020, a two per cent uptick was reported by the VNCA, the ...
FLSmidth enters fabric filter technology agreement with Simatek
FLSmidth has agreed to sell its fabric filter technology, a non-core business of FLSmidth's advanced filter technology (AFT) to Denmark-based industrial filter producer, Simate...
BUA and Sinoma sign US$1.05bn project agreement
Nigerian cement producer BUA Cement Plc has signed an agreement with Sinoma CBMI of China to build three new cement plants with a capacity of 3Mta in Edo, Sokoto and Adamawa st...
Spanish cement demand up 4% in November
Cement consumption in Spain has increased by 3.8 per cent YoY to 1,204,590t in November, according to the country’s cement association, Oficemen. Exports edged up 1.6 per cent ...
Aumund completes 75,000t silo order for LafargeHolcim Côte d'Ivoire
Aumund France has supplied a complete solution package to LafargeHolcim Côte d’Ivoire for clinker discharge from a new silo with a capacity of 75,000t, and commissioned the equ...
Spain’s cement sector targets 43% emissions reduction by 2030
The Spanish cement industry has set a target to reduce its carbon emissions by 43 per cent throughout its entire value chain by 2030 when compared with the 1990 baseline, accor...
Hongshi Shivam Cement expected to receive electricity by summer
Nepal-based cement producer Hongshi Shivam Cement, which has been operating in the last two-and-a-half years using diesel, is scheduled to receive its first electricity supply ...
Swiss cement sector requires quarry expansions to sustain production beyond 2024
Without the expansion of quarries, Swiss cement production could fall as early as 2024, according to the National Geological Survey Swisstopo, Switzerland’s federal office of t...
Aumund Group wins Sinoma order for Les Ciments du Sahel
Sinoma International Engineering and its affiliated CBMI Construction are building a new cement plant for Les Ciments du Sahel in Senegal, which will be almost completely equip...
Dangote Cement set to begin share repurchase scheme
Nigeria’s Dangote Cement is planning to begin a share buyback programme, starting with a first tranche of 85.2m shares or 0.5 per cent of the total in issue. The purchase is se...
Tajikistan produces 3.95Mt of cement in 11M20
Cement plants in Tajikistan have produced 3.951Mt of cement in the January-November 2020 period. This represents an increase of 0.9 per cent YoY, according to Tajikistan Newsli...
WCA appoints two new directors
The World Cement Association announced that it has appointed two new directors, Roland van Wijnen, CEO of Africa’s PPC Ltd, and Mahendra Singhi, managing director & CEO of Indi...
Breedon trading exceeds expectations
Breedon, a leading construction materials group in Great Britain and Ireland, today issued an update on recent trading. The Group’s recent trading update, published on 18 No...
Cargo Handlers acquires 30% stake in Jamaican cement importer
Cargo Handlers Ltd has acquired a 30 per cent stake in Buying House Cement Ltd, a cement importer based in Montego Bay that mostly supplies western Jamaica. Dominican Republic...
UNTHA waste shredder in operation for Geocycle Argentina
An UNTHA XR3000C mobile shredder is now in operation at Geocycle’s co-processing facility in Córdoba, Argentina. Geocycle (LafargeHolcim group) is now transforming 100tpd ...
Raysut Duqm Cement Factory financing announced
To support initiatives to scale up the industrial sector in Oman, ahlibank has announced the financing of OMR8.1m (US$21.1m) for Duqm Cement Factory's new cement grinding plant...
GE Renewable Energy and Veolia sign turbine blade recycle agreement
GE Renewable Energy has signed a multi-year agreement with Veolia North America (VNA) to recycle blades removed from its US-based onshore wind turbines during upgrades and repo...
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