National Cement Co launches new 0.75Mta plant in Kenya
Kenya’s National Cement Co (Devki Group) has launched a new 0.75Mta facility in Salgaa, Nakuru County, representing an investment of around KES5.8bn (US$57.5m). The plant wil...
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Israel allows temporary cement supply into Gaza Strip
Israel will temporarily allow the supply of cement and tyres to the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom trade crossing under Israeli control, according to a senior official. De...
Mexican market contracts 10% in 2019
Cement sales in Mexico declined by around 10 per cent in 2019, according to Standard & Poor’s. The ratings agency attributed the fall to poor performance of the infrastructur...
Cement prices may rise steeply with decarbonisation
Redburn Research House has downgraded HeidelbergCement and LafargeHolcim having assessed that cement producers will be faced with escalating production costs when having to dec...
M25 uses low-carbon cement
For the first time, ultra-low carbon Cemfree concrete has been used on a UK highways project in an attempt to lower CO 2 usage at the Woodford West Viaduct on the M25 in the U...
Economic activity is strengthening in Pakistan
Pakistan State Bank has stated that data of 1HFY20 for large scale manufacturing (LSM) indicates that economic activity is strengthening in export-oriented and import-competing...
UltraTech Cement sees 80% rise in net profit
India's UltraTech Cement (Aditya Birla Group) has posted a 79.8 per cent YoY increase in consolidated net profit to INR7.12bn (US$99.67m) for the 3QFY19-20, while EBITDA rose 2...
Turkmenistan starts production of sulphate-resistant cement
A report in the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper says that a cement plant in Balkanabat, Turkmenistan, has mastered the production of sulphate-resistant cement. This is the first...
Swiss cement industry joins EU ETS
From 1 January 2020 Swiss cement companies are participating in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Based on the polluter-pays principle, the scheme will allow the sect...
Qatar National Cement sees profit decline 51%
Qatar National Cement has recorded a 50.5 per cent fall in net profit to QAR172.16m (US$47.29m) for 2019, compared with QAR347.83m in the previous year. The company’s total ...
Amouda Ciment exports 3200t to Niger
In 2019 Algeria-based Amouda Ciment’s El Beida cement plant exported more than 3200t of cement to Niger, according to El Watan. The company’s first export shipment was carrie...
Hanson appoints new packed products director
UK-based Hanson has appointed Andrew Simpson as its new packed products director. Mr Simpson will now be responsible for the sales of the company packed products, including cem...
Cemex to invest MXN10bn in Tepeaca expansion
Cemex is investing MXN10bn (US$530m) in the expansion of its cement works in Tepeaca, Puebla, according to the group’s President, Grupo Cemex. The expansion of the plant aims t...
Kohat Cement commissions 7800tpd kiln line
Kohat Cement Company Ltd (KOHC) informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on 27 January 2020 that it has successfully commenced commercial operations from its brownfield grey kiln...
Udaipur Cement returns to profit in the 3QFY19-20
India-based Udaipur Cement Works Ltd, a subsidiary of JK Lakshmi Cement Ltd, reported a net profit of INR9.7m (US$135,776) for the third quarter ended 31 December 2019. In the ...
Loesche attracts international audience to 8th Technical Seminar
A total of 65 visitors and contributors from 22 nations including North Macedonia, Burkina Faso, Saudi Arabia, Syria, India and Bangladesh took part in Loesche's the eighth Tec...
Tabuk Cement appoints new board members
Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk Cement Co has announced the appointment of Saoud bin Solaiman Al Juhni as its new chairman. Furthermore, the company also nominated new members of the boar...
Carthage Cement reports 5% turnover rise in 2019
Tunisia-based Carthage Cement saw its total revenues increase by five per cent to TND249.6m (US$4.9m) from TND238.2m in 2019. Cement production rose 17 per cent YoY to 1.478Mt ...
UltraTech Cement Lanka (Pvt) brings retail cement price into line with other producers
UltraTech Cement Lanka (Pvt) has passed on the benefits of the VAT reduction and removal of the national building tax (NBT), on 1 December 2019, to customers and has lowered th...
Poland sees cement production rise in 2019
Poland’s Association of Cement Producers estimates that the production of cement in 2019 rose by around one per cent YoY to 19Mt. However, imports from Belarus grew by an estim...
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