HeidelbergCement reports rise in revenues and earnings for 3Q18
HeidelbergCement saw a 7.2 per cent rise in revenues to EUR4.943bn in 3Q18 from EUR4.61bn in the year-ago period. EBITDA fell 6.3 per cent to EUR750m in July-September 2018 fro...
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Buzzi Unicem's 9M18 cement volumes rise by 3.1%
Buzzi Unicem reports that its 9M18 cement volumes recorded a rise of 3.1 per cent to 20.9Mt, up from 20.3Mt in 9M17. Consolidated net sales for the 9M18 amounted to EUR2137.4...
Cemex creates strategic partnership with Energy Vault
Cemex Research Group AG will is creating a strategic partnership with Energy Vault of Switzerland to launch the first gravity-based energy storage system. Energy vault uses a c...
Taiheiyo Cement sees 2% advance in net profit for 1HFY18
Taiheiyo Cement has reported a four per cent increase in revenue to JPY438.7bn (US$3.86bn) in the first half of FY18, ended 30 September 2018. In 1HFY17 the company saw a reven...
APCMA shares mixed figures for 4MFY19
All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) while reviewing dispatches, profit and progress of cement industry between July and October 2018 shared mixed figures. ...
ACC adopts solar power for Kudithini and Thondebhavi grinding mills
ACC Ltd (LafargeHolcim group) has adopted the use of solar power in the cement manufacturing process at its grinding units in Kudithini and Thondebhavi in Karnataka. The inten...
Flying Cement make two director changes
Pakistan-based Flying Cement Co Ltd in Pakistan has appointed two new directors, Nadeem Tufail and Waqar Zahid. They replace Imran Chaudry and Muhammad Tawassal Majeed, respect...
LafargeHolcim Paulding harnesses wind power
LafargeHolcim's Paulding plant has become the group's first cement plant in North America to harness wind power. "Distributed wind energy is a first for LafargeHolcim in North...
Vicat hit by weaker exchange rates
Vicat's turnover for the first nine months of the year advanced by 1.4 per cent to EUR1947m, which represents an underlying improvement of 7.6 per cent. The gearing level was r...
FLSmidth reports 71% order increase in 3Q18
FLSmidth has released its interim 3Q18 report and recorded a 71 per cent order increase to DKK7.164bn (US$1.102bn), on the back of two large cement plant orders in Central Amer...
Martin Marietta Materials reports double-digit 3Q growth
Martin Marietta Materials’ nine-month turnover improved by 7.6 per cent to US$3224m and increased turnover by 12.1 per cent to US$1219.6m in the third quarter of 2018. EBITDA a...
Dandot Cement's losses depend in FY08
Dandot Cement Company Ltd (DCCL) of Pakistan announced its financial results for the year ended 30 June 2018, declaring a net loss of PKR751.45m (US$5.62m) up by 42.4 per cent...
TPI Polene claims waste-fuelled power is unsustainable
TPI Polene has complained about the quality of national waste sorting in Thailand. The company has invested about THB4bn (US$121.9m) in waste-fuelled power plants. But high ope...
Cementos Yura sees 30% 3Q net profit fall
Peru-based Cementos Yura saw its net profit fall by 30 per cent YoY to PEN52m (US$15.4m) in the third quarter of 2018. The company has attributed the slide to a lower gross pro...
Keflavík harbour blocked by grounded cement carrier
The 4000dwt cement carrier Fjordvik has run aground at the entrance to Keflavík harbour in Iceland. The incident happened on Friday 2 November when 14 crew members and pilot we...
Sagar Cements reports 40% production increase
India’s Sagar Cements has reported that its consolidated production has increased by 40.1 per cent YoY to 273,216Mt for October 2018, compared to 195,066Mt in October 2017. Fu...
RCCPL announces grinding plant expansion
India's Birla Corp has announced that it plans to carry out the second phase of expansion at the grinding plant of its RCCPL subsidiary in Kundanganj, Uttar Pradesh. The proje...
Sharjah Cement records decreasing sales
UAE-based Sharjah Cement has announced an 82.3 per cent fall in net profit for the 3Q18, dropping to AED2.2m (US$599,046) from AED12.4m a year ago. The company has attributed t...
Saudi producers face declining results in 3Q18
Saudi's Arabian Cement has posted a 51.2 per cent YoY decline in net profit during the 3Q18, falling from SAR29.5m (US$7.86m) to SAR14.4m. Furthermore, sales decreased 27.7 per...
Trinidad Cement helps promote safe building practices
The Tobago House of Assembly and Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) collaborated to host a one-day concrete and cement symposium last week to promote best building practices. TCL’s Gr...
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