Suez Cement sees net loss narrow in 2019
Egypt’s Suez Cement has seen its consolidated net loss narrow to EGP1.18bn (US$75.23m) in 2019 from EGP1.32bn in the previous year. However, sales declined 13.1 per cent YoY to...
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Puerto Rican cement demand drops 20% in January 2020
Cement sales in Puerto Rico declined 20.4 per cent YoY to 36,255t. The drop in demand was attributed to falling levels of construction after Hurricane Maria as government funds...
Cemex and Buzzi Unicem complete Kosmos Cement sale to Eagle Materials Inc
Cemex has divested its 75 per cent share in its partnership with Buzzi Unicem of Kosmos Cement in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, to Eagle Materials Inc. The divestment is for an ag...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh profits grow in 2019
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh has posted profit after tax of BDT1.737bn (US$16.24m) in 2019 as compared to BDT1.115bn in 2018. This represents a growth of 56 per cent in profit aft...
The GCCA celebrates International Women's Day
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) and its member companies around the world marked International Women’s Day (IWD) promoting the IWD theme that is drawn from th...
Ecocem Group appoints new MD for Ireland
The Ecocem Group have made a strategic internal appointment of Susan McGarry as managing director of Ecocem Ireland. A chartered engineer Susan has worked for Ecocem for close...
Gebr Pfeiffer wins lime equipment orders
ECO-Zoloproduct invest LLC in 2018 started the construction of a modern high-tech lime production plant with the trademark ROSCA in Kassimow city, Ryazan region, Russia. The ma...
Coronavirus' impact on cement
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has already made a leap out of China and is rapidly affecting international communities and stock markets around the world. The cement sector has not...
Argentine cement market contracts 25% in February
Cement demand in Argentina fell 25.4 per cent YoY ad 7.9 per cent MoM to 686,671t in February 2020, according to AFCP, the domestic cement association. There were no imports as...
Holcim El Salvador sets record production figures in 2019
Holcim El Salvador produced over 1.2Mt of cement and 710,000Mm 3 of concrete in 2019, representing record production figures, and plans to maintain this positive performance i...
Dyckerhoff Cement Ukraine sees 414% surge in profit
Dyckerhoff Cement Ukraine has reported a 414.2 per cent surge in profit to UAH814.27m (US$32.7m) for 2019, against UAH158.36m in the previous year, according to the Ukrainian N...
Kenyan producers oppose National Cement's call for clinker import duty rise
National Cement Co of Kenya has struck out on its own in asking for an increase on clinker import duty from 10 to 25 per cent. Bamburi Cement, East Africa Portland Cement VCO ...
Sagar Cements records 8% YoY fall in production
India’s Sagar Cements has seen its standalone cement production fall 7.9 per cent to 207,860t in February 2020, compared to 225,751t in the year-ago period. Consolidated cement...
MGI Group of Bangladesh sets up nine industrial units, including cement
Meghna Group of Industries (MGI), a leading Bangladeshi business group inaugurated last week nine newly-built industrial units, including cement plants, at its economic zone in...
Lafarge Cement appoints new Cauldon Works manager
Lafarge Cement UK (Aggregate Industries - LafargeHolcim group) has appointed Stuart Hutching as the new manager of its Cauldon cement plant in Staffordshire, UK. With more tha...
Colombian cement market expands 9% in January
Cement dispatches in Colombia increased by 8.5 per cent YoY to 995,400t in January 2020 from 917,100t in January 2019, according the country’s statistics office, DANE. Shipme...
Caribbean Cement Co inaugurates new packing equipment
Jamaica's Caribbean Cement Co has inaugurated a new palletising machine at its Rockfort plant to reduce manual packing. The FLSmidth Ventomatic Polimat palletiser is one of two...
Chilean cement market contracts 2% in 1M20
Cement dispatches in Chile slipped two per cent YoY in January 2020. Deliveries fell to 331,783t in the first month of the year from 350,122t in January 2019, according to the ...
EUR10bn Innovation Fund open for registration
The Innovation Fund, which for the period 2020-30 may amount to about EUR10bn depending on the carbon price, will focus on highly-innovative technologies and big flagship proje...
Good indicators for cement industry in Pakistan
The Pakistan government's intentions to lower the mark-up rates, encouraging cement dispatch data, a decrease in inflation figures and significant growing provincial export dat...
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