NCL Industries sees 24% decline in production
India’s NCL Industries has reported a 24 per cent decline in cement production to 371,000t in the 2QFY19-20, falling from 488,000t in the year-ago period. Cement dispatches als...
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Hanson Cement appoints new Technical Manager
Nina Cardinal has joined Hanson Cement as its new national technical manager. Ms Cardinal heads up the division’s technical team, which offers customers advice, information and...
Argentine cement market declines 7% in September
Argentina’s cement consumption fell 7.2 per cent YoY and 10.4 per cent MoM to 938,972t in September 2019, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. Domestic demand w...
Pakistan's exports to India fall 41% in FY19
Pakistan’s cement exports to India fell 41 per cent to 0.716Mt in the FY19 ended 30 June, with no exports to the country taking place between March-September. The decline is th...
Raysut Cement set to begin construction of new plant in Georgia
UAE-based Pioneer Cement (Raysut Cement Co) is currently finalising arrangements for its greenfield 1.2Mta project to be located near Tbilisi, Georgia. Pioneer Cement owns c...
Cement export from Bangladesh shrinks
According to Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), Bangladesh's cement industry has earned US$2.37m during July-September 2019 (1QFY19-20) compared to US$3.17m earned in sa...
Flying Cement profits recede in FY19
Flying Cement Company Ltd (FCCL) of Pakistan has announced its financial results for FY19. It declared a net profit of PKR142.36m (US$0.9m) against PKR181.5m earned in the same...
Steppe Cement suffers weak 3Q19
Steppe Cement Ltd of Kazakhstan had a weak third-quarter performance but said year-to-date revenue benefitted from rising cement prices. The construction materials producer s...
GCCA launches Industry EPD Tool
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has launched its new Industry Environmental Products Tool (Version 2.0) to support the publication of environmental product de...
Adelaide Brighton makes new appointment
Australia’s Adelaide Brighton Ltd has announced the appointment of Emma Stein as an independent non-executive director. Ms Stein has previously held several board and senior ex...
Ukrainian capacity utilisation on the rise
Antidumping duties on Portland cement and clinker from Belarus, Moldova and Russia introduced by the Ukrainian government last summer have led to an increase in output and capa...
Siguaney prepares to restart production
After a one-and-a-half year stop, repair at the Siguaney cement plant in Cuba is set to resume. New refractory bricks have arrived at the port of Mariel, Cuba, and the Siguaney...
Puerto Rico’s cement sales drop 7% in September
Puerto Rican cement sales fell 7.4 per cent in September 2019 when compared with the previous year. A total of 1.02m of 42.5kg bags, or 43,350t was sold on the domestic market,...
Gharibwal Cement 51% profit fall in FY18-19
Gharibwal Cement Ltd (GWLC) has released its financial results for the year ended 30 June 2019. The company earned a net profit of PKR736m (US$6.7m) as compared to PKR1.509bn e...
Power Cement reports 11% fall in sales
Pakistan’s Power Cement Ltd has reported a 11.2 per cent decline in net sales to PKR3.85bn (US$24.5m) in the FY19 ended 30 June, falling from PKR4.34bn in the year-ago period. ...
Laos quarry blast kills one and injuries 20 people
A Chinese-operated cement plant in northern Laos caused the death of at least one person and injuries to 20 others when it started blasting operations at a quarry in Luang Prab...
ABAD makes new appointments at AGM
Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD), one of the top cement users in the country, made changes in its top office bearer for 2019-20 at its AGM last week. P...
Pioneer Cement profit shrinks by 52% in FY19
Pioneer Cement Ltd (PIOC) of Pakistan has announced its financial results for the year ended 30 June 2019 today. It earned a net profit of PKR790m (US$5m) as compared to PKR1.6...
Overcapacity in Zambia continues unabated
This week, CemNet reported that the cement industry in Zambia has so much overcapacity that Lafarge Zambia has been forced to raise its prices in an attempt to stay in busine...
Colombian market expands 3% in August
Colombian cement dispatches advanced 3.4 per cent YoY to 1.099Mt in August 2019 from 1.061Mta year earlier, according to the country’s statistics office, DANE. Casanare, Huil...
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