Dangote Cameroon sells 1Mt of cement in the 9M20
Dangote Cameroon has announced that it sold around 1Mt of cement from its 1.5Mta grinding plant in the first nine months of 2020, up 18 per cent YoY from the 9M19. The company ...
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Cement production rises in Qatar
Qatar’s Industrial Production Index for September 2020 declined 7.7 per cent YoY and 3.9 per cent compared to August 2020, according to the Planning and Statistics Authority. ...
NG Ghadiya Group set to acquire National Limestone from ACC
India’s NG Ghadiya Group, a company involved in the business of construction mining, has announced that it intends to completely acquire National Limestone Co from ACC Ltd. ...
PIBTL reports no congestion for coal imports
Pakistan International Bulk Terminal Ltd (PIBTL) has informed the government that its terminal at Port Qasim in Karachi is working smoothly without any congestion and delay in ...
HeidelbergCement announces EUR400m investment in French sites
HeidelbergCement’s subsidiary, Ciments Calcia has presented the draft terms of a large-scale investment and reorganisation programme for several of its sites in France. The ...
US August shipments down sharply by 7% YoY
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement, including imports, in the US and Puerto Rico in August 2020 fell by seven per cent YoY to 9.6Mt, according to the latest data by...
Tanzania reports cement shortage
Tanzania’s Ministry of Trade and Industry has attributed the country’s recent high cement prices on non-production by four cement manufacturers in the country that had gone int...
CI4C consortium makes progress with carbon capture project
The pilot project "catch4climate", for which four cement manufacturers have joined forces, is set to capture CO 2 at the site of the Mergelstetten cement plant in southern Ger...
Community petitions Dangote for payment of land ownership entitlements
Members of the Ijako-Orile community in the Yewa North area of Ogun State, Nigeria, have staged a peaceful protest, urging for the payment of their ownership entitlements to th...
Vecoplan invests millions and enjoys further success despite COVID-19
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Vecoplan AG has continued supplying machines and systems that shred, convey and process primary and secondary raw materials in the production an...
CRH pays tribute to former CEO
CRH has paid tribute to Jim Culliton, a former CEO of the company, who passed away on Monday. Mr Culliton was a significant figure within several important Irish companies du...
Breedon Group's revenues for 10M20 reach GBP750m
Breedon has issued a scheduled trading update with group revenues in both September and October ahead of the same period in the prior year, on a like-for-like basis. As a resul...
LafargeHolcim launches first sustainability-linked bond for EUR850m
LafargeHolcim priced a EUR850m sustainability-linked bond on 17 November, with a coupon of 0.5 per cent maturing in 2031. This is the first bond of its kind in the building ma...
Lafarge Zimbabwe records improvement in 3Q20
Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe has stated that the gradual easing of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions and a general improvement in the business environment has supported a rebound for t...
Howden’s successful retrofit in South America
Early in 2020, Howden responded to a call from a cement plant in Brazil to retrofit a fan for reduced energy consumption. This retrofit project would involve replacing the r...
HeidelbergCement produces Europe's largest printed residential building
Europe’s largest printed residential building is currently being built in Bavaria at a rate of 18m per minute. For this purpose, HeidelbergCement has delivered about 170t of p...
EP100 companies avoid release of 328Mt of CO2
The Climate Group’s EP100 Progress and Insights Report 2020 tracks the rapid progress of energy-smart member companies improving their energy and productivity. It reveals...
Iran's cement production rises 14% YoY
Iran's cement production in the first six months of the year (starting in March 2020) rose 14.4 per cent YoY to 35.63Mt, compared with 31.15Mt in the year-ago period, according...
APCMA appeals for expeditious handling of imported coal
Pakistan's cement manufacturers have appealed to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, the Minister for Industries and Production, Hammad Azhar, and the Minister for Mar...
Misr Cement (Qena) sees consolidated net profit surge 32% YoY
Egypt's Misr Cement (Qena) has reported a consolidated net profit of EGP39.2m (US$2.51m) during the 3Q20, up 31.8 per cent YoY from EGP29.7m. Revenues fell 18.5 per cent to EGP...
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