Spain’s cement demand up 9% in March, exports continue to fall
Spanish cement consumption increased 8.7 per cent YoY in March 2019, according to Oficemen, the domestic cement association. In the rolling 12-month period (April 2018-March ...
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Republic Cement to co-process Nestlé Philippines' plastic waste
Nestlé Philippines and Republic Cement (CRH-Aboitiz) have entered into an agreement to co-process post-consumer plastic waste in the company’s cement kilns. "We are happy to...
Acquisition of Holcim Philippines may reduce cement prices
The Philippine’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has stated that it expects San Miguel Corp’s recent acquisition of a majority stake in Holcim Philippines to result in...
Belarusian president calls to improve cement exports
The president of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, has called to raise the cement exports of the country during a meeting to appoint Alyaksandr Dawhala as the new CEO of Belarusia...
South Valley Cement profit down 54% in 2018
Egypt-based South Valley Cement Co posted a profit of EGP10.18m (US$597,032) in 2018, representing a 54 per cent YoY dropwhen compared with EGP22.14m reported in 2017, accordi...
Unitherm-Cemcon supplies MAS burners to South Korean plant
Unitherm-Cemcon has commissioned a MAS burner for a South Korean cement producer in May 2019. The start-up took just four days. The Austrian burner company won a contract to...
Mali cement prices rise under absent Senegal imports
Cement prices in Mali have risen sharply with some blaming the absence of Senegalese imports while others have put the blame firmly at the door of the government and Diamond Ce...
Soil and wind-blown sand cement developed in China
Chinese researchers at Ximjiang Communications Construction Group Co Ltd claim to have developed a low-cost and environmentally-friendly cement with ingredients that include na...
Moroccan cement deliveries stable in April
Cement deliveries in Morocco remained stable in April 2019 at 1.241Mt when compared with the 1.233Mt sold in April 2018, according to the country’s Ministry of Urbanisation and...
Peru's cement market expands 3% in April
Cement consumption in Peru advanced 3.4 per cent to 905,000t in April 2019, up 3.4 per cent when compared with April 2018, according to the country’s cement association, Asocem...
Cement prices rise 43% in the Dominican Republic
The president of the Cibao Housing Promoters and Builders Association, Anthony Canaan, has denounced a 43 per cent price hike in cement prices in the Dominican Republic, accord...
Yura sees 7% fall in profit for the 1Q19
Peru’s Yura has posted a 7.1 per cent YoY drop in profits to PEN37.6m (US$11.3m) for the first quarter of 2019, with the decrease attributed to lower sales and greater sales co...
Arabian Cement records 96% fall in profit
Egypt’s Arabian Cement has reported a 96.3 per cent YoY decline in consolidated profits for the first quarter of 2019, declining to EGP5.97m (US$350,284) from EGP162.01m in the...
Dal Engineering Group wins multiple orders
Dal Group has reported the signing of a number of new orders in the cement sector in Colombia, Russia, Egypt and Qatar. Dal Machinery & Design (Dal Engineering Group) has bee...
Lucky Cement receives corporate excellence award
Lucky Cement Ltd has been awarded the 34th Corporate Excellence Award 2019 in the Cement Sector by the Management Association of Pakistan, for the fifth time in a row, last mon...
CSL Group set to acquire 50% of Eureka Shipping Ltd
SMT Shipping (SMT) and The CSL Group (CSL) have entered into an agreement for CSL to acquire 50 per cent of Eureka Shipping Ltd, SMT's pneumatic cement vessel business. The ...
LafargeHolcim reports net sales growth of 6% in 1Q19
LafargeHolcim reported strong growth in net sales for 1Q19, rising 6.4 per cent and an over-proportional increase in recurring EBITDA, up 20.6 per cent. Group net sales of c...
Argentine demand drops 6% in April
Argentina’s cement market contracted six per cent YoY to 900,938t in April 2019 when compared with 953,024t in April 2018, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. ...
Cementir shows strong 1Q recovery
Cementir's first-quarter turnover recovered by 9.1 per cent to EUR264.4m (US$296.4m) and EBITDA rose by 39.8 per cent to EUR33.7m, while at the trading level the advance was re...
Cahya Mata Sarawak reports 5% rise in net profit
Malaysia's Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd (CMS) has announced a five per cent YoY increase in net profit to MYR40.76m (US$9.76m) from MYR38.98m for the first quarter of 2019, with the ...
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