Premier Cement Mills Ltd has new CEO
Tarique Kamal has recently joined Premier Cement Mills Ltd of Bangadesh as chief operating officer (COO) effective from 1 October 2019. He was previously head of sales and dist...
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India's fuel shift to plastic waste is coming
India is making a concerted effort to divert more inorganic waste to the cement manufacturing industry as a fuel. Last week, CemNet reported that the Cement Manufacturers Assoc...
Germany's cement consumption rises to 29Mt in 2018
German cement consumption rose by 0.4 per cent in 2018 to 29Mt, according to a statement by Germany's cement association, the VDZ. The VDZ sees the industry continuing in a sta...
Cement prices fall in Bangladesh
Key building materials such as cement and steel rods have recorded a price decline in Bangladesh over the last three months on the back of sluggish demand, according to local t...
Carthage Cement adopts financial restructuring plan
Tunisian cement producer Carthage Cement has presented its 2019-23 business plan. In terms of financial restructuring Carthage Cement will carry out a capital increase of TND22...
Cemex plants receive US EPA Energy Awards
Cemex announced that its cement plants in Miami and Brooksville South have been awarded the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Energy Star Certification for 2019, recog...
PPC's CFO to step down at the end of the month
South Africa’s PPC has announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Tryphosa Ramano, will step down on 31 October after eight years at the company. Ms Ramano has agreed to take ...
FLSmidth urge greater efforts needed to create more sustainable cement
Per Mejnert Kristensen, FLSmidth Region president for Asia, spoke about sustainability and the role of the cement industry at the second annual Global Cement and Concrete Assoc...
GCCA launches 'Innovandi - the GCC Research Network'
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has today announced the formation of Innovandi - the Global Cement and Concrete Research Network (GCCRN). The network ties t...
Fauji Cement appoints new non-executive director
Pakistan’s Fauji Cement Co Ltd has announced the appointment of Wasim Sadiq as non-executive director of the company, with effect from 1 October 2019. Mr Sadiq has replaced M...
Brazilian cement market expands 5% in September
Cement sales in Brazil increased 5.3 per cent to 4.7Mt in September 2019 when compared with the same month in the previous year, according to SNIC, the country’s cement associa...
Shares of Turkish cement firms plummet
Turkish Cement firms have seen a sudden drop in share prices after Turkey's military begin operations in Syria and the EU shows no interest in financing the resettlement houseb...
Aggregate cement sales rise 17% in Saudi Arabia
Aggregate cement sales of 17 producers in Saudi Arabia reported an overall average increase to 3.71Mt in September 2019, up 17.27 per cent compared to 3.16Mt in September 2018....
Loma Negra to shut Sierras Bayas plant
Argentine cement producer Loma Negra has announced it will close its Sierras Bayas plant, the oldest cement production facility in the country. The plant, which is a century ...
Cemex UK is fined GBP1m for workers death
Cemex UK has been fined GBP1m by Livingston Sheriff Court after its West Calder block plant breached two sections of the Health and Safety at Work Act that led to the death of ...
National regulator confiscates Rainbow Power Cement product
South Africa’s National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) has confiscated thousands of Rainbow Power Cement bags and called for a nationwide recall after finding p...
Lehigh Hanson to break ground on US$600m Mitchell project
US-based Lehigh Hanson Inc is set to break ground this week on its US$600m expansion and modernisation project at its plant in Mitchell, Indiana. The plans were first announced...
Jidong Cement to acquire 49% stake in Beijing BBMG Mangrove
China’s BBMG Corp is set to sell its entire 49 per cent stake in Beijing BBMG Mangrove to Jidong Cement for CNY1.72bn (US$241m). Jidong Cement is expected to fund the acquisi...
Power Cement to become No 2 in south Pakistan
Power Cement Ltd (PCL) is set to complete the brownfield expansion at its existing production site by adding a new line of 7700tpd (2.5Mta), taking the plant’s total capacity t...
India's average cement prices rise in September
All-India average cement prices increased around 3.2 per cent YoY to INR305-310/50kg bag (US$4.29-4.36/50kg bag) in September 2019. In particular, the improvement was led by a ...
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