CIMAF starts commercial production in Chad
CIMAF has started commercial operations of its Lamadji plant in Chad following a ceremony led by the country’s Minister of Mines and Industrial and Commercial Development, Yous...
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Cemex USA acquires Texas quarry
Cemex USA has purchased a limestone quarry in Chico, 45 miles northwest of Fort Worth in Texas, from Blue Star Materials II. Cemex will use the reserves which are expected to l...
Vicem sees Jan-Aug sales up 12% YoY
State-owned Vietnam Cement Industry Corp (Vicem) reported cement and clinker sales of 18.88Mt in the first eight months of this year. This represents an increase of 11.5 per ce...
Egypt's National Cement Co goes into liquidation
Egypt's Ministry of Public Sector has announced that the National Cement Co (NCC) has fallen into liquidation. NCC's kiln lines had been shutdown since 31 May 2018. Minis...
Brazil cement sales drop 2% in August
Domestic cement sales in Brazil fell 2.4 per cent YoY to 4.9Mt in August 2018, according to the country’s cement association, SNIC. In the first eight months of 2018, accumula...
Tanga Cement reduces loss
Tanga Cement reported a net loss after tax of TZS1.8bn (US$ 788,135) for the first half of 2018, a marked improvement of its business results when compared to 1H17 when losses...
Saudi cement sales drop 26% in August
Saudi-based cement companies reported a decrease in sales of around 26 per cent in August to 2.76Mt from 3.7Mt in August 2017, according to data from Al Yamama Cement. The prod...
Turkey's construction sector is in meltdown
Turkey's construction sector is on the verge of a coma," says Tahir Tellioglu, chairman of the Buildings Contractors Confederation of Turkey (BCCT). This slowdown comes on top...
Puerto Rican cement sales up 23% in August
Cement sales in Puerto Rico increased 23 per cent YoY to 1.26m bags of 42.5kg (approx 53.55t) in August 2018. It is the eight-consecutive month of growth in cement sales after ...
The World Cement Association welcomes JK Cement
JK Cement has joined the World cement Association (WCA) as a corporate member. The indian cement producer has 10.5Mta of grey cement capacity and 1.2Mta of white cement capacit...
Helwan Cement to sell white cement plant
Egypt’s Suez Cement has announced that its subsidiary, Helwan Cement Co, has entered into an agreement with Emaar Industries to sell its 1Mta white cement plant in Minya Govern...
Siemens equips Beni Suef plant
Chengdu Design and Research Institute of Building Materials Industry Co Ltd (CDI), the main contractor for the new Beni Suef Cement plant project, in Egypt, selected Siemens to...
Cement prices fall in Bolivia
Cement prices have started to decline in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, as competition intensifies on the back of a slowdown in the local construction sector. Prices have fallen to BOB44...
Zimbabwe's cement prices skyrocket
Cement prices in Zimbabwe have hit a new high with 50kg bags being sold for US$20-25 on the black market compared to the authorised retail prices of US$11.50/bag for ordinary P...
UltraTech joins EP100 energy-smart companies
UltraTech Cement has joined the EP100, which is a global leadership initiative to bring energy-smart companies together. UltraTech believes that by joining the group it will do...
Votorantim España appoints Alan Svaiter as new CEO
Votorantim España has named Alan Svaiter as its new CEO, replacing Jorge Wagner, who has taken up the post of CEO of Votorantim Cimentos Europe, Asia and Africa. Mr Svaiter wil...
New president for Paraguay’s INC
Javier María Rodríguez Ferrer-Cajigal has been elected as new president of Paraguay’s state-owned Industria Nacional del Cemento. He succeeds César Antonio Bogado Ortiz, who ...
Taiwanese producers record positive August results
Taiwan’s Asia Cement Corp has reported a 31.7 per cent YoY increase in revenue to TWD7.18bn (US$232.9m) for August 2018, alongside a 34.6 per cent rise in Jan-Aug revenue to TW...
Ohorongo Cement opens 5MW solar plant
Namibia’s Ohorongo Cement officially inaugurated its 5MW solar photovoltaic plant this week at the company’s head offices near Otavi, Otjozondjuba region, Namibia. Minister of ...
Cemex seeks increased exploitation of Can Negret quarry
Cemex has filed an appeal for reversal of the Government resolution regarding the cement producer’s exploitation of the Can Negret quarry in Alaró, Spain. Cemex extracts lim...
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