SCG announces 7% increase in revenue
Thailand’s Siam Cement Group (SCG) has announced a seven per cent YoY increase in revenue to THB361bn (US$10.95bn) for the first nine months of 2018. However, profits fell 19 p...
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Romania's Competition Council launches cement market investigation
Romania's Competition Council (RCC) is investigating possible anti-competitive practices between the three domestic market cement producers – Holcim Romania, CRH Ciment Romania...
New Carthage majority shareholder known by end November
The new majority shareholder for Carthage Cement is expected to be named at the end of November. In April Al Karama Holdings prequalified five candidates interested in acquir...
Ambuja Cement records 13% net profit rise for 3Q18
India’s Ambuja Cement has announced a 12.7 per cent YoY increase in consolidated net profit to INR3.96bn (US$54.08m) for the 3Q18, ended 30 September. Total income rose by 11.8...
Dewan Cement reports fall in profit 1QFY19
Pakistan's Dewan Cement Ltd (DCL) on 25 October announced that it earned PKR184m (US$1.37m) in 1QFY19, down by 24.8 per cent YoY, as compared to PKR245m reported in the same p...
Quarry Life 2018 Award winners announced
A team from the University of South Wales has won HeidelbergCement Group's Quarry Life Awards 2018 for its biodiversity project. The project investigated the value of translo...
Bestway Cement FY1Q19 earnings fall
Bestway Cement Lts (BCL) announced its financial results for 1QFY19 on 22 October. It posted earnings of PKR2.25bn (US$16.9m) during this period, down by 24.6 per cent YoY. Ac...
Change of CEO in Dadabhoy Cement
Danish Dadabhoy, director of Dadabhoy Cement Industries Ltd informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on 22 October, that following the death of CEO Muhammad Amin Dadabhoy, the b...
Cem'In'EU inaugurates its Aliénor Ciments plant
Cem‘In’EU Group inaugurated its first modular grinding plant at Aliénor Ciments yesterday in Tonneins, 100km southeast of Bordeaux, France. The 0.22-0.25Mta plant is the first ...
GCC announces 11% sales increase for 9M18
Mexico's Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) has recorded an 11.1 per cent YoY increase in sales to US$677.4m for the first nine months of 2018. EBITDA surged 16.3 per cent to US...
Kohat Cement reports 1QFY19 earnings drop of 41%
Kohat Cement Company Ltd (KOHC) announced its financial results for 1QFY19 by reporting earnings of PKR529m, down by 41 per cent YoY, as compared to PKR903m reported in the sa...
Gebr Pfeiffer awarded Samrat Cement contract
Grinding specialist Gebr Pfeiffer has received the order for a coal grinding system to be installed at Samrat Cement Co Pvt Ltd’s new plant in the Dang region of southern Nepal...
Carbon capture bioreactor starts at Fortaleza's Tula plant
Mexico’s Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) has developed a bioreactor which uses microalgae to capture flue gases from cement companies. The reactor was launched at Ceme...
Algeria steps up exports
GICA, LafargeHolcim and Biskria are expected to export 0.5Mta of cement and clinker from Algeria by the end of 2018 – mainly via the port of Djendjen, according to Abdesselem B...
Maple Leaf Cement profits fall in 1QFY19
Pakistan's Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd (MLCF) announced its financial results for 1QFY19 with consolidated earnings falling at PKR587m (US$4.4m), down by 45 per cent YoY, as ...
GCP Applied Technologies receives European sustainable grinding patent
GCP Applied Technologies Inc has been issued with a patent for increasing cement grinding efficiency by using sustainable raw materials. The novel grinding aids and quality imp...
Aumund opens St Petersburg office with technical seminar
Aumund relocated its representative office in Moscow, Russia, to St Petersburg in August, opening it up with a technical seminar attended by over 50 participants. The invited o...
Dangote reports 15% rise in 9M EBITDA
Dangote Cement announced a 13.5 per cent rise in group revenues to NGN685.29bn (US$1.88bn) for 9M18 as sales volumes advanced 7.6 per cent to nearly 17.8Mt. Group EBITDA rose 1...
Brazil 9M cement demand slips
Brazil’s cement producers sold 4.564Mt of cement to domestic customers in September 2018, down 5.6 per cent when compared to the 4.835Mt sold in the year-ago period, according ...
India Cements to set up 1.5Mta grinding unit
India Cements Ltd is planning to establish a 1.5Mta clinker grinding unit in East Nimar district, Madhya Pradesh, at an estimated investment cost of INR3.16bn (US$42.95m). Th...
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