Head of Savannah Cement named CEO of the year
Savannah Cement’s Chief Executive Officer, Ronald Ndegwa, has been named CEO of the year by the Kenya Institute of Management. Mr Ndegwa dedicated the award to the company’s ma...
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HeidelbergCement reduces its shareholding in Ciments du Maroc to 51%
HeidelbergCement has announced the sale of around 0.5 million shares representing 3.6 per cent of Ciments du Maroc's share capital for an aggregate amount of approximately EUR7...
Algeria's cement export revenues rise 251% in the 9M19
Algeria’s cement export revenues have increased more than 251 per cent YoY in the first nine months of 2019, rising to over US$51m from US$14.54m, according to the Customs’ Dir...
BCMA requests the removal of non-adjustable income tax
The leaders of the Bangladesh Cement Manufacturers Association (BCMA) have requested the waiver of an eight per cent non-adjustable advance income tax (AIT) imposed on imported...
Pakistan's dispatches to grow in 5MFY19-20
All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) is yet to release dispatches data for November and five months of July-November 2019, yet local experts are optimistic th...
Vietnamese cement output up 10% in November
Cement production in Vietnam has increased 9.6 per cent to 8.7Mt in November 2019, according to the country’s General Statistics Office. In the first 11 months of this year, o...
NCB's 16th International Seminar to highlight key industry concerns
India will be the centre of attention next week for the global cement industry, as the NCB hosts its 16th International Seminar in New Delhi between 3-6 December. There are man...
Lehigh Cement announces CCS feasibility study at Edmonton plant
HeidelbergCement’s North American subsidiary, Lehigh Cement, and the International CCS Knowledge Centre have announced a feasibility study for a full-scale carbon capture and s...
Puerto Rican cement market expands 5% in October
Cement sales in Puerto Rico reached 53,570t in October 2019, representing a five per cent increase from 50,973t in October 2019, according to the Instituto Estadísticas de Puer...
Ciments du Maroc reports 4% rise in 9M turnover
Ciments du Maroc, the Moroccan subsidiary of HeidelbergCement, has posted a 9M19 turnover of MAD2.67bn, up 3.8 per cent YoY. For the third quarter of 2019, the company report...
Lafarge Zimbabwe sees cement demand drop 19%
Lafarge Zimbabwe has seen a 19 per cent decline in cement consumption. Flora Chinhaire, Lafarge Zimbabwe Company Secrtary reported that hyper-inflation in the country had impac...
JSW Cement expects UAE unit to be completed by January 2020
JSW Cement’s clinker production unit Fujairah, UAE, is expected to be completed by the end of January 2020, according to an interview with the Hindu Business Line. Parth Jin...
Mombasa Cement set to commission wind farm
Mombasa Cement will commission its new 36MW wind farm at Kilifi in December. The facility is composed of 12 wind turbines of 3MW each and will supply its 1.6Mta Athi River ceme...
Hima Cement introduces RapidSet cement
Uganda’s Hima Cement has introduced a new type of cement, RapidSet, to leverage its position in a competitive market, according to The Observer. The product has been designed e...
Peruvian cement demand sees 7% October uptick
Peru’s cement market expanded by 6.7 per cent YoY in October 2019 as demand reached 1.089Mt when compared with 1.021Mt reported in October 2018, according to the latest data pu...
Uzbekistan plans to order cement producers to monitor air emissions
Uzbekistan’s State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection has announced plans to order all existing cement enterprises to establish sampling and analysis stations f...
JSW Cement revises IPO and capacity expansion plans
India’s JSW Cement has deferred its plan for an initial public offering (IPO) by a year as the slowdown in construction activity continues, according to the Financial Express. ...
Nepal's cement demand growth remains subdued
Nepal’s cement demand has not been growing as anticipated, despite the country becoming self-reliant on cement, according to the Kathmandu Post. "The demand for cement has r...
TCMB support first Concrete Roads Congress
The first Concrete Roads Congress and Exhibition was recently held in Ankara, Turkey, at the KGM Halil Rıfat Paşa Conference Hall. The conference was led by the Ministry of T...
Pakistan to set up construction and infrastructure board
An indirect development may stimulate demands for cement in country, following meeting of stakeholders in Islamabad yesterday. A delegation of Construction Association of Pak...
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