Tanzania Portland Cement's profits fall to TZS35.5bn in FY17
Tanzania Portland Cement Company Ltd (TPCC), also known as Twiga Cement, recorded a net profit of TZS35.5bn (US$15.6m) last year, lower than TZS39.8bn (US$17.6m) recorded in 20...
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Pakistan's government urged to drop coal import duty
The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) has requested the government to allow duty free import of coal for the benefit of power generation and cement...
Bangladesh plans dry-process conversion at Chhatak
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC), owned by the Bangladeshi Ministry of Industries, is still looking for an engineering and construction contractor to convert t...
LafargeHolcim Algeria completes third Gambia consigment
LafargeHolcim Algeria carried out its third export shipment of grey cement to Gambia from the port of Arzew on 28 March, the company said. Following two earlier shipments in...
BillerudKorsnäs launches new dissolvable D-Sack cement packaging
BillerudKorsnäs has launched its first climate-positive packaging, D-Sack, co-developed with Swiss manufacturer LafargeHolcim. D-Sack is a dissolvable sack that can be dissol...
Montcada Municipality files appeal against LafargeHolcim plant environmental permit
The Municipality of Montcada i Reixac, Spain, has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court of Catalonia against the renewal of the environmental permit of the LafargeHolcim plant...
LafargeHolcim’s Holly Hill awarded EnergyStar certification
LafargeHolcim’s Holly Hill cement plant is one of the 93 manufacturing plants that has been awarded EnergyStar certification for superior energy performance in 2017. The Ene...
CMS records 4% increase in revenue for 2017
Malaysia-based Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad (CMS) has released its results for the full-year 2017 period, recording a 4 per cent YoY increase in revenue to MYR1.61bn (US$415.67m) ...
Philippine imports pass quality tests
The Philippine government has confirmed that all of the country’s cement imports have passed quality tests after the implementation of an administrative order by the Department...
Cement production in Pakistan rises 12% in 7MFY18
Cement production in Pakistan recorded 12.1 per cent growth YoY during the first seven months of the current financial year. The country produced 23.77Mt of cement throughout J...
Tamil Nadu scales down cement supply scheme
The Tamil Nadu government has recently scaled down its procurement for the ‘Amma Cement Supply Scheme’ as a result of poor sales figures, according to The Hindu. The project wa...
Annual VDMA Building Material Plants Day held in Frankfurt
The annual VDMA Building Material Plants Day highlights the efforts made by plant manufacturers who supply the cement industry and many others. "We anticipate that incoming ord...
Leading cement producers: 2017 overview
On the whole, 2017 was a year of growth for the world's leading cement producers. HeidelbergCement saw its revenues advance by 13.8 per cent YoY, while China's Anhui Conch repo...
Buzzi Unicem Full Year 2017 results
In 2017 Buzzi Unicem group sold 26.8Mt of cement (+4.4 per cent compared to 2016) and 12.3Mm 3 of ready-mix concrete (+3 per cent YoY). Consolidated net sales increased by 5.1...
Colombian cement deliveries fall 5% in February
Colombia’s grey cement sales contracted 4.8 per cent YoY to 959,500t in February 2018, according to DANE, the national statistics office. Dispatches to Norte de Santander re...
Bamburi Cement reports 66% fall in net profit for 2017
Bamburi Cement has recorded a 66 per cent YoY fall in its net profit for the full-year 2017 period, decreasing to KES1.97bn (US$19.51m) from KES5.8bn. The results have been att...
Unacem acquires seven Chilean concrete plants
Peruvian cement producer Unacem has purchased, via its Unión de Concreteras (Unicon) subsidiary, a 100 per cent stake in Hormigones Independencia, part of the Chilean Hurtado V...
CRH issues new bonds
CRH has issued US$1.5bn of bond debt at a lower cost than expected, reports the Irish Independent. In total, it consists of a 10-year US$900m bond and a 30-year US$600m bond. B...
New Chairman of LafargeHolcim Foundation announced
As of 1 April 2018, the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction will be chaired by former LafargeHolcim Executive Committee member Roland Köhler, rep...
Titan's 2017 turnover remains stable at EUR1506m
Titan's 2017 consolidated turnover remained stable, at EUR1505.8m, a marginal 0.2 per cent decline compared to 2016. EBITDA reached EUR273.4m, a 1.9 per cent decrease. Non...
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