Producers: cement prices unsustainable in Peninsular Malaysia
Cement prices in Peninsular Malaysia, which have been declining since 2016, have a reached an unsustainable level as production costs have increased, according to the country’s...
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Cosco Shipping Bulk signs logistics agreement with Conch
Cosco Shipping Bulk has signed an agreement with Conch Logistics, the logistics business of China-based Anhui Conch Group. The two companies will jointly develop the cement log...
Environmental groups oppose Calero Risso plant
The building of a cement plant at Calero Risso in Paraguay, proposed by Jiménez Gaona y Lima under the name of Cementos Concepcion, has met with further disapproval from enviro...
Pakistani cement prices to rise from July
Following the Pakistani government’s increase of the Federal Excise Duty (FED) on cement to PKR100 (US$0.64)/50kg bag from PKR75 in the FY29-10 budget, cement prices are foreca...
Cembureau elects new president and vice-president
The European cement association, Cembureau, has appointed its new president and vice-president at its general assembly in Helsinki, Finland, on 14 June 2019. Raoul de Parisot...
Asia's need to embrace co-processing
As the Cemtech Asia 2019 Conference and Exhibition prepares to open in Bangkok next week, our weekly newsletter focusses on the opportunity for co-processing in Asia's cement...
Grupo Argos interested in Summit Materials merger
Grupo Argos has approached US aggregates and cement producer Summit Materials Inc about a merger, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal would expand Grupo Ar...
Holcim invests US$1m in solid waste processing in El Salvador
LafargeHolcim and its Geocycle brand have plans to invest more than US$1m in new waste processing equipment in El Salvador. The new equipment will be used to treat solid wast...
CSN Cimentos plans new 3Mta plant in Brazil
Brazil’s CSN Cimentos has announced plans to invest BRL1.5bn (US$387.84m) for a new 3Mta cement facility in Paraná. Eduardo Bekin, president of the Paraná State Development Age...
Chinese plan 0.5Mta plant in Mozambique
Chinese investors are behind a greenfield 0.5Mta cement plant to be built in Mozambique by 2021. The US$700m cement plant will be located in Muxúnguè, Chibabava district in the...
Baticim puts Batisoke stake of up to 75% for sale
Baticim, part of the Turkey-based Bati Anadolu Group, is looking to sell a stake of up to 75 per cent in Batisoke, according to a Reuters report citing a source close to the pr...
Pioneer Cement backtracks on Galadari Cement acquisition
Pioneer Cement Ltd (PCL) has withdrawn its interest to buy a local cement production facility that is under construction. Abid Wahab, company secretary of PCL in a written comm...
Bangladesh budget sets higher GDP for FY20
AHM Mustafa Kamal, Bangladesh Finance Minister, in his budget speech in Parliament on 13 June proposed that country's GDP grew consistently at a very high rate in the last dec...
Loma Negra to close clinker production at Barker plant
Argentina's Loma Negra has announced that it will stop clinker production at its facility in Barker, Buenos Aires. The news follows a month of negotiations with the Ministry of...
APC members see May sales fall 13%
Asment Temara, Ciments de l’Atlas, Ciments du Maroc and LafargeHolcim Maroc – members of Morocco’s cement association, APC – have seen their sales rise by 1.9 per cent YoY to 5...
Cement prices rise in Vietnam
Cement producers in Vietnam have reportedly begun to hike prices due to rising electricity prices at the peak time for construction, according to Vietnam News. SCG Vietnam has...
Siam City Cement will use AI to improve its supply chain
Siam City Cement aims to upgrade its business chain using Krungsri Supply Chain on Blockchain Innovation, an AI deep learning technology. "The Krungsri Supply Chain on Blockch...
Ecebol to start cement sales in August
Bolivian state-owned producer Empresa Pública Productiva de Cementos de Bolivia (Ecebol) will start selling cement from its new Oruro works in August. According to the manage...
HeidelbergCement appoints new Head of Group Communication and Investor Relations
HeidelbergCement has appointed Christoph Beumelburg as new Director Group Communication and Investor Relations. He reports to Dr Bernd Scheifele, chairman of the company’s mana...
Pakistan's Federal Budget FY20 serves up mixed bag of tax measures
Pakistan Minister of State for Revenue, Hammad Azhar, presented the incumbent's governments first federal budget on 11 June with a total outlay of PKR8.2trn (US$53.9bn), which ...
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