Government urged to use online platform for cement purchases
The Andhra Pradesh government has been urged to use ‘YSR Nirman’, a new online platform designed to help various state departments procure cement for important government infra...
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State Bank of Pakistan reviews cement industry performance in 1HFY20
The State Bank of Pakistan has released its second quarterly report of FY20 (July 2019-June 2020) on the state of Pakistan's economy on 14 April. The report reviewed the perfor...
Indian industries look for lockdown exit strategy
While many Indian industries were preparing strategies for a partial lifting of the country’s lockdown, some members of the cement industry were reportedly aiming to wait an ad...
Akhangarancement completes kiln housing installation
Eurocement has completed the installation of the rotary kiln housing at its 3Mta Akhangarancement project in Uzbekistan, according to a press release. Internal and external ...
Eagle Materials supplies business update amid COVID-19 uncertainty
US-based Eagle Materials has announced that it intends to continue operations as an essential business and deliver products to its customers, since its primary manufacturing fa...
Pakistan resumes cement and construction activities
Pakistan's government has taken the bold decisions to open selected local and export-oriented industries (including cement) in a meeting of the National Command and Operation C...
Polish Cement Association calls on government to send cement and construction workers back to work
The Polish Cement Asociation has written an open letter to the government explaining how important it is to get the cement and construction sectors back to work. “The contribu...
Research house prospects on Pakistan's cement sector after COVID-19
Pakistani research house Spectrum Securities Ltd has taken stock of mitigation efforts against the coronavirus in the country's cement sector. The measures to stop the spread o...
Chinese infrastructure construction sees boost
Chinese infrastructure construction has reportedly been stepped up across the country as the government increases funding in the sector, states Xinhua News Agency. The produc...
New DRC cement plant project on hold
The laying of the foundation stone of a new cement plant in Katanda, Lomami province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been postponed indefinitely. The plant will be bui...
Schwenk Zement acquires 100% shares of Celitement GmbH
Schwenk Zement KG has taken over all shares of the previous fellow shareholders (including the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Celitement GmbH and this has been backdated...
Pakistan's goverment to recover foreign loan funds from Galadari Cement
Pakistan's government on 8 April decided to recover a foreign funding loan from a local cement plant that has been under construction for a long time in Balochistan province. ...
Société de Ciment de Bizerte halts cement sales
Tunisia’s Société de Ciments de Bizerte announced a temporary stop to cement sales until 19 April. The company said it had not seen a single case of coronavirus in its employee...
Shah Cement distributes food items to construction workers and families
Shah Cement Industries Ltd of Bangladesh has taken an initiative to provide food items and handwash to construction workers and their families considering that many workers hav...
Mexico: getting back to business
This week, Cemex was quick to announce that it was resuming operations, having previously fallen into line with the National Cement Chamber’s (CANACEM) decision to cease cement...
Cemex asks employees to defer 10% of salary
Cemex has asked employees to voluntarily defer payment of 10 per cent of their salaries for three months, according to Reuters. Members of its senior management team have also ...
Turkish exports boom in first quarter, but slowdown expected
Turkey’s cement sector exports increased by 54 per cent in the first three months of 2020, according to a statement by the Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association (TÇMB). ...
Offloading of clinker continues at Chittagong Port in Bangladesh
Offloading of imported raw materials for the cement industry continues at the Chittagong Port of Bangladesh (CPA), even as the port suffers container storage congestion. Accor...
Eagle Cement donates food packs to Bulacan residents
Philippines-based Eagle Cement has donated food packs to the residents of Bulacan, amidst the quarantine period in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the assistance of...
Roanoke Cement awarded gold certification for zero waste efforts
US-based Roanoke Cement Co (Titan America) has been awarded Gold certification by Green Business Certification for its zero waste efforts at its Troutville plant. "In order ...
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