Intercem Engineering receives order for secondary fuel dosing system
Intercem has been commissioned to optimise the secondary fuel dosing system in a German cement plant. The scope of delivery includes the following items: disassembly on site, ...
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Ecebol Oruro plant to start production testing at end February
Bolivia-based cement producer Ecebol is finalising construction of its plant at Jeruyo, Oruro. The company expects the start production tests at the end of the month. President...
ACC sees 8% rise in cement deliveries in 2018
The Indian LafargeHolcim subsidiary ACC Ltd has reported an 8.4 per cent increase in cement deliveries for 2018 to 28.44Mt, while in the fourth quarter the advance was of a sim...
Boral releases revised FY19 guidance
Boral Ltd announced that it expects net profits after tax for 1HFY19 to be around AUD200m (US$142.6m) and EBITDA to be approximately AUD483m. Excluding the impact of lower ear...
Cevian Capital announces stake in CRH
Europe's largest activist investor, Cevian Capital, has announced that it has built up a stake in CRH to become its second-biggest individual investor. "The group has many st...
Uzbekistan Temir Yollari plans 1Mta plant
Uzbekistan Temir Yollari is currently exploring the potential of a new cement plant in Pakhtachinsky district of the country’s Samarkand region. It held a meeting with represen...
Turkish cement output drops by 2% in 9M18
In the first nine months of 2018, cement production in Turkey decreased by 1.6 per cent compared to the previous year, reports The Turkish Cement Association (TÇMB). Again in ...
Tasman Sea to complete clinker offloading at Suva
Bulk carrier Tasman Sea is expected to complete the offloading of 11,880t of clinker at Suva Port, Fiji, today, according to the Fiji Sun. The clinker has been exported from Ja...
Thatta Cement earns PKR300m in 1HFY19
Thatta Cement Co Ltd (TCCL) announced its financial results for the half year ended 31 December 2018 with consolidated earnings at PKR300m (US$2.1m), down by 6.54 per cent YoY,...
Anjani Portland records 22% rise in net sales
India’s Anjani Portland Cement Ltd has recorded a 22.2 per cent YoY rise in net sales to INR1.1bn (US$15.3m) for the third quarter of FY18-19, compared with INR902.7m of the ye...
Russia produces 53.7Mt of cement in 2018
Russian cement producers have manufactured 53.7Mt of cement in 2018, according to Rossnet. This represents a decline of 1.9 per cent when compared to 2017.
Hail Cement sees a 19% increase in revenue
Saudi Arabia’s Hail Cement made a net loss of SAR23.55m (US$6.27m) in 2018, compared with a SAR15.54m profit in 2017. However, revenue increased 19.1 per cent YoY to SAR195.98m...
Lafarge Cement UK secures Energy Management System certification
Lafarge Cement (UK Aggregate Industries group) has achieved BS EN ISO50001:2018 in Energy Management Systems after demonstrating its ongoing commitment to energy efficiency. ...
Holcim Australia announces new CEO
Following the commencement of Nick Miller’s duties as CEO of Adelaide Brighton last week, the company has announced the departure of George Agriogiannis, executive general mana...
Puerto Rican cement demand rose 14% in December 2018
Cement sales in Puerto Rico advanced 13.5 per cent to just over 1m bags of 42.5kg (42,500t) in December 2018 when compared with December 2017, according to the country’s Planni...
JSW Cement announces Salboni expansion
India’s JSW Cement has announced plans to increase the capacity of its unit in Salboni, West Bengal, from 2.4Mta to 3.6Mta. Only commissioned in January 2018, the company has s...
Eurocement’s Voronezh plant sees 5% rise in deliveries
Eurocement’s 3.075Mta cement works in Voronezh has increased its cement production by three per cent YoY to 1.87Mt in 2018, according to a company press release. Deliveries r...
LafargeHolcim makes two ready-mix acquisitions
LafargeHolcim has announced the acquisition of US-based Transit Mix Concrete Co on 1 February 2019. As part of the transaction, the company will take ownership of seven ready-m...
Pakistan's cement shares become attractive on the PSX
The shares of top Pakistan's cement producers at Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) become attractive for international and local buyers on 5 February on anticipation of good result...
Star Cement net profit falls 5% in 3QFY18-19
Star Cement reported a stand-alone net profit of INR561.4m (US$7.7m) for the quarter ended 31 December 2018, a fall of 5.4 per cent when compared with INR593.6m reported in the...
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