Emami Group to demerge solar power assets from Emami Cement
The Emami Group (India) is demerging its solar power assets from Emami Cement, consolidating the renewable energy assets under Emami Power, which controls 300MW aggregate capac...
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2018 in review – the momentum is in Asia
For International Cement Review, 2018 was a year of celebration as the magazine published its 30th anniversary issue in July . It’s incredible to think that since the publicat...
GCC commissions Rapid City plant expansion
Mexican cement producer Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) has announced the expansion of its Rapid City, South Dakota cement plant became operational, adding 440,000tpa capacit...
BCCI and Saudi Arabia plan cement plant in northeastern Bangladesh
Bangladesh state-owned entity, Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC), and Saudi business firm, Engineering Dimensions, have signed an agreement to set up a new ceme...
Pakistan cement sector records 7.3% fall in FDI
Pakistan’s cement and construction industries received a total foreign direct investment (FDI) of US$265.3m during the July-Nov 2018 period, according to the State Bank of Paki...
Fancesa lowers prices for Christmas
Fancesa’s 2018 Christmas campaign has seen the company lower its cement prices to BOB42/bag (US$6.07/bag) from BOB46 in Sucre, Bolivia. The company expects to meet its target...
New plant commissioned in Uzbekistan
A new facility in Korauzyak district, Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan), has been commissioned, according to Trend News. The Uzbek-Chinese joint venture, Titan Cement, saw a total in...
Pakistan exports rise in November
Pakistan's cement industry received foreign exchange revenue of US$26.77m by exporting 635,192t of cement during November 2018, compared to US$26.74m and 616,648t in the previo...
GCCA publishes its first six sustainability guidelines
The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has published its first six sustainability guidelines . The guidelines include a number of KPIs against which member companie...
Cement consumption in Peru sees 5% rise in November
Cement consumption in Peru rose by 4.8 per cent YoY in November to 1.017Mt, up from 0.971Mt in November 0217, according to the latest data from the country’s cement association...
Ecocem announces total CO2 emissions saving
Ireland’s Ecocem, Europe’s largest independent specialist producer of low-carbon cement, has announced that its efforts over 16 years to encourage replacing high-carbon cement ...
Siberian Cement invests to develop units in 2019
Russia’s Siberian Cement has announced plans to invest RUB4.52bn (US$67.86m) to develop its production units in 2019. The funds, double the amount allocated in 2018, will be us...
Emami Group to demerge solar assets from cement company
India’s Emami Group has received National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approval to demerge its solar power assets from its cement company. The assets will be consolidated under ...
Jidong renews coal contract with Mechel
Jidong Cement has renewed its coal contract with Mechel, according to the Russian metals and mining company. Mechel will supply Jidong Cement with up to 2Mt of thermal coal m...
Ohorongo to increase rail use
Namibia’s Ohorongo Cement is working together with TransNamib, the country’s railway company, to take more than 5000 truck loads of product off the road. The cement producer...
Brazil’s cement sales up 2% in November
Cement sales in the Brazilian market between January and November 2018 totalled 48.7Mt, representing a 1.2 per cent fall YoY, according to the National Union of the Cement Indu...
Azerbaijan hits record high in cement production
Azerbaijan has produced over 3.2Mta of cement in the first 11 months of the year, a record amount in the entire history of building materials in the country, according to Turan...
Ohorongo Cement plans for alternative fuel boost in festive period
Ohorongo Cement and Rent-A-Drum have made a seasonal pledge to set up waste disposal sites in Thomas, Erongo and Oshana regions of Namibia to reduce the amount of festive waste...
Production rises in Iran's South Khorasan province
Two plants in Iran's South Khorasan province have produced around 765,000t of cement since the start of the current Iranian year (21 March-22 Oct), a 22 per cent YoY increase, ...
Rock Hard Cement loses import tariff judgement
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled in favour of Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) and Arawak Cement Ltd over their dispute with importer Rock Hard Cement to have the tariff...
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