Taiwan Cement and Oyak fined for JV notification failure
China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has fined Taiwan Cement and Ordu Yardimlasma Kurumo (Oyak) for failure to notify the establishment of their joint vent...
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Qatar's cement production falls in May
Qatar’s Industrial Production Index for May 2020 declined two per cent YoY to 104.2 points, but this was a six per cent increase compared to April 2020. Issued by the Planning ...
Azerbaijan records 2% decline in cement production
Cement production in Azerbaijan declined 2.4 per cent YoY to 1.57Mt in the first half of 2020, according to the State Statistics Committee. However, ready-mix concrete producti...
SCAEK completes first stage API certification
Algeria-based Société des Ciments de Ain El Kebira (SCAEK) has succesfully completed the first phase of the American Petroleum Institute audit to certify petroleum cement as a ...
ACC reports 40% fall in net profit
India’s ACC (LafargeHolcim) has reported a 40 per cent YoY decline in consolidated net profit to INR2.71bn (US$36.2m) in the first quarter of FY20-21, compared to INR4.55bn in ...
Spain's cement demand falls 17% in 1H19
Cement consumption in Spain declined 16.5 per cent to 6.1Mt in the first half of 2020 when compared with the 1H19, according to Oficemen, the country’s cement association. The...
Egypt sees cement sales surge 42% in June
Egypt's cement industry has reported a sudden surge in total sales, recording 3.64Mt during June 2020, including minimal exports, up 42 per cent MoM and one per cent YoY. June...
Dal Engineering wins north African ball mill order
Dal Engineering has won an EPC contract to supply a new grinding plant in north Africa. DAL Engineering has signed a contract to supply a ball mill measuring 3m x10m for the pr...
Eagle Cement Corp will pursue expansion plans
Eagle Cement Corp will pursue its expansion plans despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Expansion-related capital expenditures will continue while spending for non-c...
Rwanda's cement shortage sparked by classroom building
Cimerwa is seeing a sharp rise in cement prices in Rwanda, following a cement shortage that has been driven by the Ministry of Education's programme for 20,000 classrooms to b...
Pakistan's cement export volumes rise
Pakistan's Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) has released cement export data for the 12 months of July-June (2019-20). During this period, the quantity of cement exports incre...
Orient Cement evaluates COVID-19 impact on operations
India's Orient Cement Ltd estimates that it lost around 225,000t of cement sales towards the end of the FY19-20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have an impact of up to ...
Norwegian CCS project is awarded EUR2.1bn
The full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Norway has been awarded EUR2.1bn from the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Surveillance Authority (ESA). By su...
Indian cement prices struggle in July
All-India cement prices declined by one per cent to INR366/50kg bag (US$4.88/50kg bag) in July, according to Kotak Institutional Equities. Prices in southern India also decl...
Iran continues cement exports to Afghanistan
A total of 54,000t of cement have been exported to Afghanistan from Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran, since the start of the Iranian year on 20 March. The ...
Will Turkish cement exports come under pressure?
As the second-largest cement exporter after Vietnam, Turkey's cement industry has for many years exported its surplus around the world. However, analysts anticipate Turkish tra...
Cemex to help take FastCarb to the industrial level
Cemex is participating in the IREX-administered FastCarb project that will capture CO 2 in concrete, which is then used in aggregate. The scheme will improve the quality of th...
European building materials sector shows resilience
Following the downturn in activity for the French construction materials sector in April, the following month saw the beginnings of a sequential recovery and even more impressi...
Uzbekistan cement prices fall
At the last auction of the Uzbek National Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange on 29 June, the average weighted cost fell 4.9 per cent from UZS792,000/t (US$77.71/t) to UZS754,...
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions relocates Asia Pacific cement business HQ to Vietnam
thyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions has moved is Asian-Pacific headquarters to Hanoi in Vietnam. The company has more than 80 employees in its Vietnam office with further regiona...
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