Spanish cement demand drops 13% in October
Demand for cement in Spain has fallen 13.1 per cent YoY to 1,205,482t in October 2020, according to Oficemen. In the first 10 months of 2020, domestic consumption has decreas...
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LafargeHolcim enhances green solutions in Latin America
LafargeHolcim is launching its ECOPact green concrete in Latin America, starting in Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico, with all key markets due to follow in the first half of 2021. ...
JSW Cement delays IPO plans
India’s JSW Cement has pushed back its plans for an initial public offering (IPO) to December 2022, as a result of the slowdown and disruption caused by COVID-19. The company...
GICA to export clinker to Dominican Republic and Haiti
GICA will export 41,000t of clinker to the Dominican Republic and Haiti as it seeks new markets in Latin America, the company announced in a statement sent to EFE. It will a...
Clinker dispatches via Paraguay River return
Cement production is expected to recover from this week as clinker supply via the Paraguay River is returning to normal this week, reports Hoy. This will enable Industria Na...
HeidelbergCement joints Foundation 2 Degrees
HeidelbergCement has joined the support group of the Foundation 2° (Stiftung 2°). Together with the Foundation 2° – a network of entrepreneurs for progressive climate policy – ...
Pakistan's exports surge in October
Pakistan’s cement industry earned a revenue of US$105.54m from exporting 3.23Mt of cement and clinker in the 4MFY20-21, compared with US$94.4m from 2.437Mt of exports in the ye...
Titan Cement Group enters strategic partnership with FLSmidth
Greece-based Titan Cement Group has signed a new 2.5 year service agreement with FLSmidth that will put sustainability, digitalisation and productivity at the top of the agenda...
Holcim Philippines to streamline corporate structure
The board of Holcim Philippines Inc (HPI) has approved the merger of three majority-owned subsidiaries (Bulkcem Philippines Inc, Mabini Grinding Mill Corp and Holcim Philippine...
Tourah Portland Cement reports 10% decline in net sales
Egypt’s Tourah Portland Cement has reported a net loss of EGP56.7m (US$3.62m) in the third quarter of 2020, compared to a net loss of EGP55.3m in the year-ago period. Net sal...
Lafarge Zementwerke orders A TEC Flash Dryer for Mannersdorf
Lafarge Zementwerke GmbH awarded A TEC the contract for the implementation of the Flash Dryer to be installed at its 1.1Mta Mannersdorf plant in Austria. The dryer will help th...
Breedon appoints CFO designate
Breedon has named James Brotherton as chief financial officer (CFO) designate, effective from 1 January 2021. Mr Brotherton was CFO of Tyman Plc between 2010-19 after holding...
Suez Cement sees net loss widen in 9M20
Egypt’s Suez Cement has posted a consolidated net loss of EGP888.9m (US$56.79m) in the first nine months of 2020, widening from an EGP521.4m loss in the year-ago period. The co...
Al Akaria sells stake in Hail Cement
Saudi Arabia’s Al Akaria, a real estate company, has sold its entire stake in Hail Cement Co at a value of SAR96.9m (US$25.84m). The company had a stake of 6m shares and made ...
Beni Saf starts clinker exports to Mauritania
GICA-owned Beni Saf Cement in Algeria started exports of clinker with a 13,000t shipment from the port of Ghazaouet to Mauritania on 18 November 2020. The company’s exports a...
CCP investigates offices of APCMA
The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP), as part of an enquiry launched in May 2020 to investigate the possible anti-competitive activities of cement manufacturers, carrie...
Puerto Rican cement sales down 3% MoM
The Puerto Rican cement market contracted 3.1 per cent to 58,328t in October 2020 when compared with the previous month, according to the country’s statistics institute. The ...
Sino Energy International eyes Mozambican cement plant
China-based Sino Energy International Holdings Group Ltd has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sino-Harbor Construction Group (Hong Kong) Ltd for the ...
India's rural boost
As India's cement producers publish their results for the July-September 2020 period (2QFY20-21), we are starting to see the beginning of a new phase for the cement market foll...
Taiwan Cement Corp sees revenue rise 3% in the 3Q20
Taiwan Cement Corp has announced a three per cent YoY rise in revenue to TWD29.8bn (US$1.04bn) for the third quarter of 2020. Its net income also reached TWD7.4bn, up 14 per ce...
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