Graeme Bride appointed as plant manager of Tarmac's Aberthaw facility
UK-based Tarmac has appointed a new plant manager, Graeme Bride, at its facility in Aberthaw, south Wales. Mr Bride has 19 years of cement plant management experience from ti...
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Chinese have land agreement in place for Sibay cement plant
The Chinese are reported to have begun designs for a cement plant in Sibay, Bashkira, Russia, close to the Kazakh border. A land lease agreement is already in place for Sichua...
Bamburi Cement forecasts profit drop of 25% in 2018
Bamburi Cement (LafargeHolcim group) has given a profit warning of earnings likely to drop by 25 per cent in 2018 following difficult market conditions and escalating internati...
Vietnam's cement industry assists coal demand
Vietnam’s cement industry has helped drive an increase in coal sales during the first 11 months of 2018. The country’s Coal and Mineral Industries Corporation (Vinacomin) has e...
Bedeschi to supply material handling equipment for Italian plant
Cementeria Costantinopoli has ordered equipment for handling raw material and clinker handling from Bedeschi for its cement plant in Barile, Potenza, Italy. Bedeschi will su...
JSW Cement to look at inorganic growth
India's JSW Cement has announced that it will be looking at inorganic expansion to reach its target of increasing capacity to 20Mta by 2020. The ongoing bad-loan resolution p...
LafargeHolcim Guinea orders mobile grinding plant
CBMI has signed an EPC contract to build a modular mobile grinding plant for LafargeHolcim Ciments de Guinea. The grinding plant will be located at Dubréka town, 80km from the...
Paraguay's MIC committed to ensuring cement supply
Paraguay's Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) held a press conference with representatives of the cement sector to address the reported scarcity of cement on the market. ...
Holcim Süddeutschland plans glass waste use as ARM
Holcim Süddeutschland plans to use glass waste as alternative raw material in the production of cement at its cement plant in Dotternhausen, Germany. The cement producer has ...
Iranian province records export increase
Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan reported a 40 per cent increase in clinker and cement exports to 400,000t during the eight-month period between 21 March-21 November 2018,...
Karachi builders seek removal of high rise building ban
The Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD) once again called for the removal of ban on the construction of high rise buildings in Karachi city, Sindh provinc...
Protesters close gates to Shalimar Cement
Local residents staged a sit-in outside Shalimar Cement Industry, claiming environmental pollution caused by the industry at Jitpur-Simara sub-metropolis in Bara of Nepal. Pro...
Irish Cement fined EUR4000 for dust spill
Irish Cement has been fined EUR4000 for breaching terms of its industrial emissions licence, when thick “glue-like” dust spilled from its Co Limerick plant, resulting in damage...
Raysut Cement targets international expansion
This week Oman's Raysut Cement Co announced that it is planning to expand its portfolio by entering the Indian cement markets of Gujarat and Chhattisgarh, as well as targeting ...
Portland and blended cement demand down 4% in USA-Puerto Rico
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the USA and Puerto Rico decreased 4.2 per cent YoY to 8.4Mt in September, according to the latest data from the US Geological ...
Oman Cement's Board gives go ahead for Duqum plant
Oman Cement company has informed Muscat Securities Market on 6 December that its Board of Directors has agreed to go ahead with setting up of a new integrated cement plant in D...
Pacific Cement Ltd issued with order to stop work
Fiji's Pacific Cement Ltd, a subsidiary of Fijian Holdings Ltd based in Lami, has been issued a Stop Work Notice by the country’s Department of Environment. The department visi...
Mahendra Singhi appointed as president of CMA
CEO of Dalmia Cement (Bharat), Mahendra Singhi, has been appointed as the new president of India’s Cement Manufacturers Association (CMA). Mr Singhi will take over the position...
Pakistan's cement production falls in July-September FY18/19
Pakistan's cement industry recorded a negative growth of 1.41 per cent during first three months of FY18-19, ended 30 September 2018, as production fell from 9.332Mt of cement ...
Bamburi Cement issues profit warning for 2018
Kenya’s Bamburi Cement has issued a profit warning for the financial year ended December 2018, with investors expecting the company's lowest earnings in 10 years, according to ...
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