Veolia signs contract to co-process wind turbine blades
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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Lucky Cement reports 16% rise in November revenue
Taiwan’s Lucky Cement has reported a 16.3 per cent YoY increase in revenue for November 2020, rising to TWD402.13m (US$14.24m) from TWD345.87m in November 2019. In the January...
CDP maintains HeidelbergCement's A list emissions rating
The global environmental non-profit organisation CDP has once again recognised the activities of HeidelbergCement as one of the world’s leading companies in cutting emissions,...
Cemex launches Vertua® in Mexico
Cemex SAB de CV has announced that its Vertua ® low-carbon and net-zero products are now available in Mexico after a successful introduction in Europe. The Vertua ® range of...
CAC supports Ontario's plan to phase out coal use
The Cement Association of Canada (CAC) has applauded the Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, and the Honourable Jeff Yurek, Minister of the Environment, Conservation and...
DTI reviews cement import duty
The Philippines’ Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has ordered that, for the second year of the three-year implementation period of the safeguard measure against imported ...
PPC sees EBITDA rise 15% in 1H20
South Africa-based PPC has seen its group revenue edge up one per cent to ZAR5.01bn (US$331.1m) in the half-year period ending 30 September 2020, compared to ZAR4.95bn in the 1...
Chile's cement demand up 16% in October
Cement consumption in Chile increased 16.2 per cent to 392,688t in October 2020 from 337,959t in the previous year, according to the country’s construction chamber, CChC. When ...
Hazemag supplies NCC Northern Cement with two new crushers
Hazemag Systems Gmbh has supplied two crushers to NCC Northern Cement Corp in Philippines in partnership with our local partner PrinceACE Corp. In September 2020 Hazemag...
Scheuch subsidiaries make senior management appointments
Two Scheuch subsidiaries make senior management appointments, while Scheuch USA Inc announces its new President Camcorp (Scheuch), a manufacturer of high-performing air poll...
Uzbekistan sees 3% rise in production
Uzbekistan produced 8.8Mt of cement in the first 10 months of the 2020, up 2.6 per cent compared to the year-ago period. The largest volumes of cement were produced in the T...
Pakistan shows healthy dispatches in November 2020
Pakistan's cement industry dispatched 4.508Mt domestically and overseas in November 2020, recording a growth of 4.2 per cent on a YoY basis, according to the All Pakistan Ceme...
Loma Negra forced to stop kilns in Olavarría
A conflict between Argentina’s mining workers' union and Minerar, a key supplier of raw material, has forced Loma Negra to halt its two kilns in Olavarría. If the issue continu...
Azerbaijan records modest fall in cement production
Azerbaijan produced building materials worth AZN614.7m (US$361.6m) between January-October 2020, up 26.4 per cent YoY, according to the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee. ...
Cement export revenue falls during 5MFY20-21 in Bangladesh
Bangladesh's cement industry has earned export revenue of US$2.82m in the five-month period of July-November 2020 (5MFY20-21), compared to US$4.08m in the year-ago period, a f...
Cemex's climate action strategy
Cemex hosted its Climate Action webinar on Thursday 3 December 2020. It included an outline of how Cemex was looking to achieve its 2030 roadmap to reduce CO 2 emissions and t...
UltraTech Cement announces 12.8Mta capacity expansion
UltraTech Cement’s (Aditya Birla Group Cement) Board of Directors have approved an increase of cement capacity by 12.8Mta with a mix of brownfield and greenfield expansions. T...
Argentina’s cement market expands 25% in November
Cement demand in Argentina surged 25.1 per cent YoY and edged up two per cent MoM to 1,091,549t in November 2020, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. The mark...
VDZ releases new decarbonisation 2050 roadmap for German cement sector
VDZ has released a new study, "Decarbonising cement and concrete: A CO 2 roadmap for the German cement industry.” The study shows possible ways of mastering this transforma...
Republic Cement aims to double plastic co-processing by 2021
Republic Cement’s resource recovery arm, ecoloop, plans to co-process a minimum of 10m plastic sachets or bags per day at its plant in the Philippines by the beginning of next ...
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