Chariot Steel and Power plans 300tpd grinding unit
Chariot Steel and Power Ltd intends to build a cement grinding plant at Kalunga Estate, Sundergarh district, Odisha, India. The unit, located on a 10acre site will produce 300t...
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Bangladesh Cement Manufacturers Association appoints new president
Bangladesh Cement Manufacturers Association (BCMA) has elected Muhammad Alamgir Kabir, managing director of Crown Cement as its new president for the next two years, according ...
Vicat sees strong French volumes
Vicat's first-quarter turnover showed 4.7 per cent improvement to EUR600m, which represents an underlying advance of just 0.3 per cent at constant parameters and exchange rates...
MPA reports sluggish 1Q19 sales of building materials in the UK
Sales volumes of mineral products across markets including aggregates, asphalt, ready-mixed concrete (RMC) and mortar declined in the UK in 1Q19, reported the Mineral Products ...
Eagle Cement Corp achieve PHP1.59bn net profit in 1Q19
Eagle Cement Corp reported a net profit of PHP1.59bn (US$30.6m) in 1Q19. This was a rise of 49 per cent YoY driven by a double-digit growth in sales volumes and higher cement...
Pakistan cement producers challenge SA import duties
Pakistani cement producers are putting pressure on their government to convince SA to overturn the existing anti-dumping duty on imported cement from that country. In 2018 ce...
Uzbekistan proposes to cancel import benefits
The Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan has proposed to abolish cement import benefits, which were introduced in January 2018. The government suggested tha...
Najran Cement Co posts 159% rise in net profit
Saudi Cement producer Najran Cement Co reported a 159 per cent increase in net profits (after zakat and tax) to SAR6m (US$1.6m) in the 1Q19 when compared with the 1Q18, when it...
Maadesh Cements plans cement grinding unit in Tamil Nadu
India-based Maadesh Cements is planning the two-phase construction of a 300tpd cement grinding unit in Kattur village, Vellore district, Tamil Nadu. The first phase will see th...
Itacamba Cement launches US$95.6m notes offering
Itacamba Cemento of Bolivia has announced a US$95.6m notes offering on the Bolivian stock exchange. The company is a subsidiary of Cementos Molins and Votorantim Cementos of Sp...
The road to net-zero
Shree Cement, one of India's top three cement producers with a production capacity of 35Mta, has announced its commitment to set a science-based target to cut its greenhouse ga...
FLSmidth reports strong order intake in 1Q19
Two large cement orders from Paraguay and Vietnam supported Denmark-based equipment manufacturer FLSmidth’s order intake in the 1Q19. The order backlog expanded to DKK17.8bn (U...
Nesher Cement considering Haifa closure
Israeli cement producer is looking at closing its Haifa plant and moving jobs to Turkey, according to Globes. Last year the company dismissed 40 employees and is reportedly c...
UltraTech clinker grinding project to start in October
UltraTech Cement is preparing to set up a 3Mta clinker grinding unit in Cuttack district, Odisha, India. The INR5.59bn project,which will be funded through a bank loan, will ...
Shanshui Cement reduces loss to CNY210.89m
Shanshui Cement has narrowed its loss to CNY-210.89m (US$-31.3m) for the 1Q19, according to a company statement. In the 1Q18 the company loss reached CNY-471.22m. Shanshui’s o...
Mykolaivcement’s net profit falls to UAH174m
Ukrainian cement producer Mykolaivcement, indirectly controlled by CRH, has seen its net profit decline by 6.1 per cent to UAH174m (US$6.5m) in 2018, according to Ukrainian New...
Southern Province 1Q profit up 18%
Saudi cement producer Southern Province Cement Co reported 17.6 per cent YoY growth in 1Q profits (after zakat and tax) to SAR120m (US$32m) in 2019. When compared with the prev...
Roanoke Cement earns industry’s first ISO 50001
Roanoke Cement Co and its parent company, Titan America, announced this week that it has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its Troutville plant in Virginia – the first cemen...
Cyclone Fani halts clinker handling in Bangladesh ports
The handling of imported clinker and other ports in Bangladesh has been suspended due to bad weather caused by cyclonic storm Fani, which is likely to strike the country's coas...
Shree Digvijay Cement Co appoints directors
Shree Digvijay Cement Co Ltd has appointed Anil Singhvi and Pramod Kabra as non-independent directors with effect from 30 April 2019. In addition, the board of directors has ...
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