Cementos Melon gets go ahead for Punta Arenas grinding plant
Chile's Environmental Evaluation Service (SEA) has passed the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for Cementos Melón (Brescia Industrial Group) to construct the company's new...
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Tycoon's plans for Lebanese 3Mt cement plant back on
Pierre Fattouche, a businessman with interestes in Armenia and South Sudan, wants to build a 3Mta cement plant in Lebanon to export cement to Syria. The proposed site is in Ain...
North Korea reportedly suspends production at cement plant
The operation of a cement plant in Pyongyang, North Korea, has reportedly been suspended for three months due to lack of electricity, according to the Daily NK newspaper. The...
GCCA launches Indian segment
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) launched its Indian segment on Tuesday. As part of GCCA’s strategic partnership with the World Business Council on Sustainable...
Pakistan cement production varies in 10MFY19
Large-scale manufacturing production data shows negative growth in Pakistan during the 10 months between July 2018 and April 2019. According to Pakistan Federal Bureau of Stati...
Kenya reports decline in cement exports
Kenya has reportedly seen 9017t of cement exports in the first quarter of 2019, which represents a value of KES11m (US$106,940). This is a significant decline when compared t...
Power Cement's WHR plant nears completion
Power Cement Ltd has announced that it is installing a 12MW waste heat recovery (WHR) power plant, which is expected to be operational later this year at the company's plant si...
Kohat Cement awards scholarships
Kohat Cement Ltd, has awarded scholarships to engineering students of University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar, Pakistan. As part of its social corporate respons...
Colombian cement market expands 7% in May
Grey cement dispatches in Colombia advanced by 7.2 per cent to 1.055Mt in May 2019 when compared with May 2018, when domestic dispatches were 0.984Mt, according to the country’...
Lafarge Hungary announces plant investment
Lafarge Cement Hungary has announced that it will invest HUF2bn (US$6.99m) for upgrades at its plant in Királyegyháza, southwest Hungary, by the first half of next year. The...
Mombasa Cement orders mill from Gebr Pfeiffer
Kenya’s Mombasa Cement has awarded Gebr Pfeiffer with a contract for an MVR 3750 C-4 mill for its second kiln line project, which is currently under construction at Vipingo, Ke...
GCCA and ECRA make strategic partnership
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) and the European Research Academy (ECRA) announced a formal partnership agreement to foster innovation in the cement and concr...
AfriSam will use carbon tax to as an incentive for energy innovations
AfriSam's Cementitious Executive, Hannes Meyer, highlighted the potential of South Africa's new carbon tax to incentivise energy-saving innovation. The new carbon tax came into...
Paper sack deliveries rise in 2018
With a slight growth of 1.2 per cent paper sack deliveries, the European paper sack industry recorded stable development in 2018. Speaking at EUROSAC's 2019 congress, held in...
PPC reports revenues of ZAR10.4bn in FY19
PPC has reported revenue up one per cent in the FY19 ended 31 March, rising to ZAR10.4bn (US$772.7m), while EBITDA increased four per cent to ZAR1.9bn. PPC's overall cement vol...
Russia sees record cement prices in May
In Russia the average selling price for cement in the domestic market in May 2019 reached RUB3730/t (US$56/t) and RUB3740 for cement with additives, according to the Russian Fe...
PPC to shut down kiln to meet emission standards
South Africa’s PPC has stated that it expects to pay around ZAR120m (US$8.5m) as a result of the new carbon tax and will also shut down a kiln at its Port Elizabeth (PE) facili...
Cement production in Vietnam rises 12% in June
Vietnam reportedly produced 8.3Mt of cement in June, an increase of 12.4 per cent YoY, according to data from the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO). Production fo...
COCMAG warns government that Ghana's cement industry could collapse
The Chamber of Cement Manufacturers, Ghana (COCMAG) has given the goverment a stark warning that various taxes and levies over the past two years are driving the cement industr...
Charah Solutions to set up third SCM grinding unit
Charah® Solutions Inc has announced plans to set up its third grinding facility for supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in Oxnard, California, USA. "Charah Solutions...
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