CDP gives top Climate Change A grade to HeidelbergCement
CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) has recognised HeidelbergCement with a place on the "Climate Change A-List 2019" as one of the leading companies worldwide for its comm...
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Indonesian export sales up 12% in 2019
Indonesia’s cement producers saw export sales drop 38.1 per cent in December 2019 to 321,966t when compared with 519,684t in December 2018, reports Semen Indonesia Group. Clin...
Baudouin Nizet appointed head of McInnis
The Board of McInnis Cement has appointed Baudouin Nizet as president and CEO of McInnis Cement, succeeding Jean Moreau, who held the post in an interim capacity since 2018. ...
FLSmidth reduces workforce by 500
As part of business improvement initiatives announced at the end of last year, current industry caution and delays tied to large capital investments, Denmark-based FLSmidth is ...
Semen Indonesia Group sees 29% rise in 2019 sales
The total sales volumes of the Semen Indonesia Group, including Thang Long Cement Co (TLCC) and former Holcim subsidiary, PT Solusi Bangun Indonesia (SBI), increased 36 per cen...
Iran produces 41.5Mt in first eight months of FY19-20
Iran produced 41.5Mt of cement during the first eight months of the current fiscal year (21 March-21 November 2019) up 10 per cent compared with last year's corresponding perio...
Tajikistan increases output in 2019 by 400,000t
Tajikistan produced 4.2Mt of cement in 2019, an increase of 400,000t compared to the previous year, according to the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies (MoINT). The c...
Pakistan dispatches higher volume but earned lesser in 1HFY20
Pakistan cement industry's increased its overseas dispatches but saw value contract in 1HFY19-20. Therefore, the industry's foreign exchange revenues fell by US$11.74m in the f...
Chettinad Cement orders MVR 600 C-6 Gebr Pfeiffer VRM
Chettinad Cement has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer the contract to supply a granulated blastfurnace slag and blastfurnace cement grinding plant, which will be set up near the steel wor...
Nuvoco Vistas is expected to acquire Emami Group
Nuvoco Vistas, the cement division of Nuvoco Group, is pole position to capture Emami Group, according to the Economic Times. The bid from Nurvoco is expected to beat the bids ...
Fancesa to fall short of sales target
Bolivia-based Fábrica Nacional de Cementos SA (Fancesa) will miss its sales and profits targets for the current financial year. The shortfall has been attributed to civic unr...
PhilCement Corp inaugurates Bataan facilities
Phinma-Corp subsidiary PhilCement Corp has inaugurated its first state-of-the-art cement and port terminal at the Freeport Area of Bataan, Philippines. Located on a 1.9ha plo...
Building USA's largest domestic cement producer
This week Eagle Materials INC received the full approval of the US-based Federal Trade Commission (FCT) to acquire the assets of Kosmos Cement , a joint venture between Cemex ...
Swiss cement deliveries down 5% in 2019
Deliveries by the Swiss cement industry fell by 4.9 per cent YoY to 1,034,914t in the fourth quarter of 2019 from 1,088,196t in the 4Q18. The latest figures published by Cemsui...
Puerto Rican sales see 6% drop in 2019
Puerto Rican cement sales in 2019 declined 5.6 per cent to 569,485t in 2019 when compared with 2019, according to Sin Comillas. In 2018 sales had surged 38.9 per cent YoY as co...
Cementos Progreso acquires Cemento Interoceánico
Guatemala’s Cementos Progreso has acquired a 100 per cent stake in Cemento Interoceanico SA, a Panama-based producer. Fabrega, Molino & Mulino acted as a legal adviser to Cem...
Cemenco completes plant upgrades worth US$14m
Liberia's Cemenco (HeidelbergCement) has commissioned new upgrades worth US$14m at its grinding plant in Monrovia. Following the works, the company’s roller press can now produ...
Russian producers increase railway distribution in 2019
Russian cement manufacturers shipped over 26.21Mt of cement by railway in 2019, an increase of four per cent YoY against 2018. The top regions for consumption of cement deli...
FDI into Pakistani cement and construction falls
Pakistan has received a net total foreign direct investment (FDI) of US$1.34bn during first six months of July and December of FY19-20 compared to US$796.8m received in same mo...
Refratechnik Group acquires QMAG
The Refratechnik Group has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire 100 per cent of QMAG Ltd, an Australian magnesia producer. QMAG (Queensland Magnesia) is a fully...
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