Pakistan's cement exports rise but fall MoM in FY19
Pakistan's cement industry recorded a growth of 21.9 per cent in earning of foreign exchange revenue, 40.4 per cent in terms of quantity and 49.7 per cent in terms of Pakistani...
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Shui On Cement to be compensated for plant closure
Hong Kong-based Socam Development said the Kaili government in Guizhou, China, is expected to compensate its subsidiary Shui On Cement with CNY171m (US$24.85m). The funds are t...
Vietnamese cement sector to reach 115Mta of capacity in 2020
Vietnam is expected to have 89 cement production lines and a total capacity of 115Mta in 2020, according to the Vietnam National Union of Building Workers. In 2019 two addition...
Bangladesh earns US$10.41m on export of cement in FY19
Bangladesh's cement industry has recorded a fall of 17.3 per cent in export revenue to US$10.41m between July 2018 and June 2019, compared to US$12.59m of the corresponding per...
Andusia forms partnership with SRF producer for Mediterranean exports
Andusia has partnered with Mid UK Recyling (Beaupar group), the UK's largest solid recovered fuel (SRF) producer. The partnership will see the companies export more than 20,000...
Sigus Cement to start national distribution
Sigus Cement’s plant in d’OUm El Bouaghi, Algeria, has launched its grey cement onto the national market, according to its Managing Director, Fawzi Bachiri. The cement compan...
MLMC rebrands to NuCycle Energy
US-based Materials Lifecycle Management Co (MLMC) is now NuCycle Energy. The company’s rebranding is reflecting its mission to be the “indispensable supply chain link between ...
China’s cement industry sees CNY80bn profit in 1H19
China’s cement industry in the first half of 2019 saw profits advance by 20 per cent to CNY80bn (US$11.6bn), according to China Securities Journal. Cement output increased 6.8...
National Cement's acquisition of ARM blocked
The acquisition of ARM Cement for US$50m by National Cement has hit a legal block. ARM's former CEO and leading shareholder, Pradeep Paunrana, has challenged the sale in the Hi...
Keystone Cement to switch to natural gas
USA-based Keystone Cement has announced that its application for a US$320,950 state grant to extend a natural gas line to its plant in East Allen Township, Pennsylvania, has be...
Algeria exports US$30m of cement in 5M19
Algeria has exported cement to the value of US$29.96m in the first five months of 2019, an increase of 849.6 per cent YOY, according to the Directorate of Studies and Customs P...
Caribbean Cement to dispose of over 2m tyres
Jamaica’s Caribbean Cement has been selected by the country’s government to remove and dispose of over 2m old tyres stockpiled at the Riverton City disposal site in Kingston, a...
Lack of foreign currency impacts Mugher productivity
A shortage of foreign currency is affecting the operations of Ethiopia-based Mugher Cement, according to Akalu Gebrehiwot, the company’s general manager. The company requires...
UAE cement company finds use for camel dung
Gulf Cement is preventing thousands of tonnes of camel waste from going to landfill. The cement company is cutting its emissions while using camel dung to supplement its fuel u...
What is driving biomass use in the cement industry?
This week Ethiopia's Minister of Trade and Industry, Fetlework Gebre-Egziabher, spoke out on how the cement sector in his country could benefit from a move from coal-based ene...
Kawasaki to capture CO2 in Wyoming
The Wyoming Infrastructure Authority (WIA) and the Japan Coal Energy Center have signed an MoU to research solid sorbent capture technology with the twin-goals of reducing emis...
ACC records 39% rise in net profit for 2Q19
India’s ACC Ltd (Ambuja Cements) has reported a 38.6 per cent YoY rise in consolidated net profit to INR4.56bn (US$60.26m) for the 2Q19, due to an improvement in operating perf...
Cimgabon cement output up 53% in 1Q19
Cimgabon’s cement production surged by 52.5 per cent to 112,349t in the first quarter of 2019 when compared with the 1Q18, when it produced 73,633, according to Directinfosgabo...
Mixed dispatches expected for Pakistan's cement sector in FY19
Pakistan's cement industry is likely to report mixed dispatches data for FY19. According to a sector research report released by Topline Securities, domestic dispatches will dr...
UltraTech's acquisition of Century Cement to be completed soon
India’s UltraTech Cement has confirmed that it will complete the merger of Century Cement in the second quarter of the FY19-20. The only pending approval which remains for the ...
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