Cemex to build terminal in El Musel port
The Port Authority of Gijón granted Cemex a 30-year concession of 2477.72m 2 of land at the Olano Pier in the port of El Musel, Spain. The Mexico-headquartered cement produc...
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National Cement to invest US$250m in Ragland
Vicat-owned National Cement will be installing a new state-of-the-art kiln at its Ragland plant in Alabama, USA. The project represents an investment of US$250m and the project...
Finnsementi takes part in feasibility for synthetic fuels pilot plant
Finnsementti is expected to supply CO 2 from the production process at its Lappeenranta cement works for a synthetic fuels pilot plant, to be located in Joutseno, eastern Finl...
Belarus government awards US$4m grant to Krasnoselskstroimaterialy
The Belarus Council of Ministers will provide a non-repayable grant of BYN8.5m (US$4.06m) to state-owned cement producer Krasnoselskstroimaterialy OJSC in 2019-20, according to...
Indian petcoke imports rise in October
India imported 809,000t of petcoke in October 2019, up more than 364 per cent from the year-ago period, according to Iman Resources. The imports were primarily sent from the US...
Solnhofer Portland-Zementwerke order coal dust dosing systems
In November 2019 Solnhofer Portland-Zementwerke in Germany awarded Intercem the contract for the engineering, planning and installation of two coal dust dosing systems. The e...
Increase in gas price may impact Pakistan cement industry
Pakistan's government intends to increase gas prices effective from 1 January 2020 for all types of commercial consumers, including the cement industry. A research house ant...
What characterised the cement world in 2019?
This week ICR looks back at a big year for the cement sector when news centred on several core themes. Prominent trends in our news flow have been the evolution of cement volum...
Papua New Guinea 1.65Mta plant in planning stages
Mayur Resources ' Central Cement & Lime Project in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is another step closer to development with debt lead arranger KPMG Corporate Finance receiving Letters...
LafargeHolcim obtains SBTi validation for its CO2 reduction targets
The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has validated LafargeHolcim's targets to reduce its global carbon emissions. According to SBTi, LafargeHolcim’s targets are adequate...
Spanish cement demand falls 4% in November
Cement consumption in Spain fell 4.4 per cent YoY to 1.104Mt in November, according to Oficemen, the country’s cement association. In the year to date, demand has reached 13,32...
Devnya Cement to alter production strategy
Bulgaria's government has announced it will terminate the concession contract awarded to Devnya Cement for a quartz sand deposit in the Varna region, upon the company's request...
Dandot Cement continues to posts losses
Dandot Cement Company Ltd (DNCC) of Pakistan has announced its financial results for the first quarter ended September 2019, yesterday. It incurred a net loss of PKR220m (US$1....
Huaxin Cement plans share buy-back scheme
China’s Huaxin Cement has announced its intention to buy back company shares worth around CNY100-125m (US$14.21-17.76m) within the next 12 months. The company also stated it...
WCA holds end-of-year board meeting in Dubai
The World Cement Association has held its final board meeting of the year in Dubai, UAE, taking the opportunity to review progress made so far and set priorities for 2020 and b...
OYAK to merge five companies on Istanbul Stock Exchange
Turkey's leading cement group, OYAK Holding is merging five cement companies traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange. OYAK Group is an industrial and financial conglomerate owne...
Peru’s cement demand up 2% in November
The Peruvian cement market expanded 2.1 per cent YoY in November 2019 with total sales of 1.048Mt (November 2019: 1.026Mt), according to Peru’s cement association, Asocem. Ce...
Pakistan continues to earns mixed revenue in 5MFY20
Pakistan's cement industry earned foreign exchange revenue of US$124.2m by exporting 3.246Mt of cement and clinker between July and November 2019, compared to US$131.11m from e...
LEILAC 2 is in the pipeline
The success of the The Low Emissions Intensity Lime and Cement (LEILAC) project to separate and capture CO 2 from the cement production process will enable a second LEILAC 2 p...
UltraTech awards grinding equipment order to Gebr Pfeiffer
UltraTech Cement, India’s largest cement producer, has placed the order for a MVR 6000 C-6 mill with Gebr Pfeiffer. The order is the first ever between UltraTech and Gebr Pfeif...
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