Attock Cement reports net sales increase in 2H17
Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd has announced its financial results for the half-year period ended 31 December 2017. The company’s profit after tax fell 16 per cent YoY, to PKR1.15b...
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Pakistan exports fall 16% in 1HFY18
The volume of cement exports from Pakistan fell by 16.04 per cent YoY in the first half of the current financial year (July-Dec 2017). Data released by the Federal Bureau of St...
Loma Negra to consider LCVs to transport product
Argentine cement producer Loma Negra is currently studying the use of long combination vehicles (LCVs) to reduce logistics costs while transporting more product on the country’...
Reliance awarded 468ha of Yavatmal forest for new cement plant
India’s Maharashtra government has given the green light to the diversion of 467.5ha of reserved forest land for the construction of a cement plant in Zari Jamni, Yavatmal dist...
Masaiti plant will need to relocate households
ZCCM Investment Holding (IH) Cement has had to defend the construction of a US$600m cement plant in Masaiti District on the Copperbelt province, Zambia. Some 47 households ar...
Power disruption to lead to demise of Araniko Cement
Nepal’s Araniko Cement Industry has faced disruption of its power supply in the past seven months and the company is now reported to be on the verge of collapse unless urgent a...
Voronezh Cement increases dispatches by 5%
Eurocement-owned Voronezh Cement saw a five per cent YoY advance in its shipments to customers in 2017. Dispatches rose to 1.8Mt by the end of the year. The company increased...
Indonesia’s state-owned cement companies to increase efficiency
State-owned cement producers in Indonesia have announced that they will continue with efficiency measures to improve their bottom line amid increasing competition and domestic ...
SCG cement revenues up 6%
Thai conglomerate Siam Cement Group (SCG) saw a 14 per cent YoY rise in consolidated sales in 4Q17 to THB113.4bn, as growth in the Packaging business offset a slight decline in...
Thanh Thang to develop third line
Thanh Thang Group Cement JSC is investing VND800bn (US$35.2m) in developing the third production line in Ha Nam, northern Vietnam. Construction of the 2.3Mta facility is exp...
LafargeHolcim increased investment in Jerez de la Frontera
LafargeHolcim’s cement plant in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain, invested EUR2m in improving its facilities in 2017, according to a company statement. The sum represents a 2...
Hetauda Cement faces limestone shortage
Hetauda Cement Factory is facing a shortage of limestone due to local protestors preventing the extraction of the material from its mine in Majuwa, Nepal. The company’s new ...
Iraq plans sell off of damaged cement factories
Iraqi Minister of Industry, Mohammad Sudani, has announced plans to sell off destroyed or damaged cement factories and oil refineries in northern Iraq that were caught up in th...
Hongshi Holding issues bond for cement plant project
Hongshi Holding Group Co Ltd has issued a "Belt and Road" (B&R) construction corporate bond on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), which was also the first B&R construction corp...
Nevjansky Tsementnik increases output in 2017
Nevyansky Tsementnik, part of Eurocement, produced 823,339t of clinker and 1Mt of cement in 2017. This represents an increase by seven and 15 per cent, respectively, when compa...
Bizerte sees 4% rise in turnover, but debt weighs
Tunisia-based Société Les Ciments de Bizerte improved its turnover by 3.7 per cent to TND63.7m when compared with TND61.4m in 2016. The company’s cement and lime deliveries ...
Nepal cement manufacturers ordered to decrease prices
The government of Nepal has directed cement companies to decrease the price of cement within three days, reports myRepública. This follows a price hike of 10-16 per cent in som...
Aumund to supply equipment for a plant modernisation
LafargeHolcim plans to invest EUR100m in its Martres-Tolosane plant in southwest France. Aumund Fördertechnik GmbH and Aumund France SARL. has won the contract to supply a rang...
Asia Cement acquires Halla Cement
Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) has sold Halla Cement, a South Korean cement producer, to Asia Cement for US$723m. Halla Cement, formerly known as Lafarge ...
N+P's new Teeside Subcoal® plant will come on-stream in 3Q18
N+P is investing in a new Subcoal ® facility, which is being constructed in Teesside, UK. Once erected, this will be one of the most modern alternative fuel producing facili...
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