INC reports record deliveries in 2018
Paraguay-based Industria Nacional de Cemento (INC) closed 2018 with a delivery record of 12,964,917 bags of cement. In 2017 INC delivered 12,702,486t, up from the 12,659,924t i...
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Aumund wins clinker conveyor orders in Algeria
The successful partnership between Aumund France and Aumund China has resulted in large orders for Aumund in Algeria for two new cement plants at Zahana and Bechar. The two ord...
Star Cement announces plant expansion
India’s Star Cement has announced a brownfield expansion at its grinding unit in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal. Already the largest manufacturer in the northeast of the coun...
Iraqi Cement signs contract for new 6000tpd line
Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry, wholly-owned subsidiary of Sinoma International Engineering, has signed an EPC contract to deliver a clinker...
Semen Baturaja records 24% sales increase
Indonesia’s PT Semen Baturaja (SMBR) has recorded a 24 per cent YoY increase in sales to 2.17Mt in 2018, compared to 1.76Mt of the previous year. Jobi Triananda Hasjim, company...
China accounts for 15% of Central American cement imports
In the first half of 2018, Central America’s largest importing country was Nicaragua, which purchased cement from overseas sources to the value of US$28m, followed by Guatemala...
APCMA cement dispatch data for 6MFY18/19
All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) has released dispatches data for 6MFY18-19, which shows mixed sales. Local dispatches contracted and export swelled dur...
Rostsement reports RUB20,000 net profit for 2018
Rostsement saw its revenues increase by 25.6 per cent to RUB49.79m (US$738,982) in 2017 when compared with 2016, when the company reported revenues of RUB39.63m. The Russia-bas...
New 3Mta line planned for BUA's Kalambaina Cement
Nigeria’s BUA Group has signed another contract with CBMI for the construction of a new 3Mta line at Kalambaina Cement in Sokoto State. The announcement comes soon after a merg...
NCL Industries reports 13% growth in output in 3QFY18-19
India-based NCL Industries has reported a 13 per cent YoY increase in cement production to 552,000t in the third quarter of FY18-19, up from 490,000t in the year-ago period. Ce...
Aalborg launches Extreme Light120
Aalborg Extreme™ Light 120, ia a new generation of premixed ultra high-performance concrete (UHPC) based on Aalborg White ® cement. The product is being released in Europe and...
Bangladesh: finding ways to make profits
ICR's January 2019 issue starts the year with a market report on the Bangladeshi cement market. The country has just recorded its highest cement sales in 2018 at 33Mt, while ...
Argentina sees dispatches fall 20% in December
Argentina’s cement market contracted 19.5 per cent YoY to 808,887t in December 2018, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. In December 2017 domestic off-take was...
Sanghi Industries signs MoU for plant expansion
India’s Sanghi Industries Ltd has announced plans to expand its existing cement plant in Sanghipuram, Kutch, to 8.6Mta from 4Mta. The project is expected to be completed at an ...
Colombian cement market expands 4% in November
Domestic dispatches of grey cement in Colombia advanced 4.3 per cent YoY to 1.065Mt in November 2017 from 1.021Mt, according to the latest data from DANE, the country’s statist...
A batch of Nepalese cement licences are suspended
The Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology (NBSM) has suspended licences to produce cement for several companies in Nepal after they failed to meet manufacturing standards. A...
Malbaza Ciment begins operation of new plant
Niger's Malbaza Ciment Co has begun operation at its new 0.65Mta plant, which produced its first tonne of cement on 28 December 2018. "The Ministry of Industry is pleased to ...
Lafarge Cement UK adds Rapid Cement to its product range
Lafarge Cement UK (Aggregate Industries group part of LafargeHolcim) has introduced Rapid Cement to its packaged range of cements. The Portland cement product contains calcium ...
Vietnam demand up 10% in 11M18
Cement consumption in Vietnam remained largely stable in November 2018 when compared with the previous year at 5.675Mt, according to the Vietnam National Cement Association (VN...
Bolivia to prohibit poor-quality cement imports
The Bolivian government will verify the quality of imported cement as of the start of this year and if found to be insufficient, the consignment will not be allowed to enter th...
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