Exports from southern Pakistan remain strong
Total cement sales in Pakistan declined by seven per cent YoY to 4.3Mt in March 2019 and six per cent YoY to 29.3Mt in 9MFY19. However, exports from the southern region continu...
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GCCA welcomes new member companies
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has added cement companies from India, China, Peru and Mexico to its growing global membership base which now totals 36 member...
Sika sees successful start to the year
Sika has reported a successful start to 2019 business year, reporting a new sales record of CHF1644.8m (EUR1462m) in the first quarter. This equates to an increase of 7.1 per...
Indocement anticipates conservative sales growth
Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa is targeting a conservative sales growth of four per cent this year to IDR15.8trn (US$1.1bn) on the back of a slowdown in domestic cement consumptio...
Lafarge Malaysia expects subdued demand, higher prices
Lafarge Malaysia expects subdued domestic cement demand to continue in 2019 but prices are anticipated to increase due to higher production costs. A report in the Edge Finan...
Cemex Clinchfield earns ISO 14001:2015 certification
Cemex USA's Clinchfield, Ga, cement plant has earned ISO 14001:2015 certification for its environmental management system (EMS), making the plant the first Cemex cement operat...
Switzerland sees 5% increase in cement deliveries
Cement deliveries by the Swiss cement industry increased 4.8 per cent YoY to 874,275.2t in the 1Q19, according to the country’s cement association, Cemsuisse. It follows a 2.2 ...
Trinidad Cement seeks higher taxes on Rock Hard Cement imports
Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) has written to the Caribbean Court of Justice to seek higher taxes to be imposed on Rock Hard Cement imports, according to the Nation. TCL wants the ...
Cemex Holding Philippines plans SRO
Cemex Holdings Philippines Inc plans to increase its capital stock by more than triple to raise finds through a potential stocks rights offering (SRO). "Cemex Holdings became ...
HCT appoints new CEO after Emir Adigüzel steps down
HeidelbergCement Trading (HCT) has made management changes following the departures of CEO Emir Adigüzel, and Deputy CEO and General Director Kerim Erben. Emir Adigüzel join...
GICA ships 37,000t of clinker to Côte d’Ivoire
GICA-owned Hadjar Soud de Skidka (SCHS) plant in Algeria has exported 37,000t of clinker from Annaba port, according to its CEO Youcef Merabet. "This cargo represents the fi...
Hima Cement to return illegally-acquired land in Tororo
Hima Cement Ltd has agreed to surrender back over 30 acres of land it illegally acquired in Mwello, Tororo, Uganda, according to The Observer. The company’s Managing Director, ...
Cementos Argos supplies concrete for Caribbean’s largest effluent treatment plant
Colombia-based Cementos Argos has supplied 22,978m 3 of concrete for the Mirador Norte-La Zurza wastewater treatment plant, the largest in the Caribbean, according to Dominica...
Russia looks at Al Arabiya upgrade
Representatives of several Russian companies have held negotiations to restore and upgrade the Al Arabiya cement plant in Syria as well as build a cement works in Muslimiya in ...
Cartes EIS draws calls for cave protection
Paraguay’s cave research association, Fepae, has called on the country’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development to protect the Risso cave in San Lazaro, Conception...
Ethiopia: investing for a better future
Ethiopia's cement capacity is in the ascent. The sector has raised its cement capacity to approximately 17Mta, but domestic cement demand was just under 9Mt in 2017. In the mea...
9MFY18-19 APCMA data depicts gloomy results in northern Pakistan
Pakistan's cement industry showed poor performance during the first nine months of current financial year July 2018-March 2019. All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (A...
Cbb inaugurates new 0.2Mta Arica plant
Cbb (formerly known as Cementos Bío Bío) has inaugurated its new 0.2Mta cement plant in Arica, northern Chile in the presence of Chile’s Minister of Economy, José Ramón Valente...
Cementos Argos starts transporting cement in electric trucks
Cementos Argos, together with its strategic partner Transportempo and the support of Renting Colombia, has started using 100 per cent electrical trucks in Colombia. The initiat...
Cimencam inaugurates 0.5Mta grinding plant
President Paul Biya of Cameroon inaugurates the Nomayos grinding plant On Tuesday this week, Cimencam (LafargeHolcim group) officially inaugurated the new Nomayos ...
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