Huaxin Cement plans US$140m works in Nepal
Chinese cement producer Huaxin Cement is planning a new US$140m cement facility in Nepal having started talks with authorities and setting out a project investment agreement (P...
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Taiwan's Hsing Ta reports revenues up 53% in November
Hsing Ta Cement Co Ltd reported a 52.6 per cent rise in revenues to TWD673.172m in November 2017 from TWD441.025m in the year-ago period. For the first 11 months of 2017, th...
Cemex receives waste tyre hoard in Queretaro
Cemex is taking used tyres off the street in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico, thanks to a local authority initiative to clean up tyres left on vacant urban land and in the draina...
Apollo Asia invests in Steppe Cement
Apollo Asia Fund Ltd has acquired 11.2m shares, representing 5.13 per cent of the issued share capital of Steppe Cement Ltd, which produces construction materials in Kazakhstan...
NCB announces greenest cement company
Dalmia Bharat won the title of world's greenest cement company from the National Awards from National Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCB) for 2015-16 and 2016-17, w...
CRH exits PPC talks but LafargeHolcim discussions continue
Irish cement producer CRH has decided to pull out of the process to bid for rival PPC, the South African company said on Thursday. Last month, CRH made an undisclosed cash bid ...
Cement Association of Canada welcomes Alberta’s output-based allocation system
The Cement Association of Canada has welcomed the publication of the Alberta government’s overarching policy framework for the output-based allocation system (OBAS). The new...
Pakistan's dispatches reach 18.5Mt during 5MFY18
Initial data from local research houses suggests that Pakistan cement manufacturers dispatched 18.5Mt during 5MFY18, taking cumulative capacity utilisation to 95 per cent duri...
BUA seeks President's support to end mining rights squabble
Nigerian conglomerate BUA group has asked Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, to intervene in its argument with Dangote group over limestone mining rights. BUA's Chairman, ...
Call to investigate recent local price hikes in China
Some Chinese cement producers and suppliers were taking advantage of Beijing’s environmental crackdown to artificially hike prices, according to the Wuhan Concrete (Mortar) Ass...
Bamburi Cement launches seasonal driver improvement programme
Bamburi Cement has begun a pre-Christmas campaign to improve driver safety. Over 1200 drivers and 1,000 bodaboda operators are set to benefit from the training that will be off...
Indonesian cement demand up 13% in October
The Indonesia cement market expanded 12.5 per cent YoY to 6.754Mt in October 2017, according to data from the Indonesian Cement Association (ASI). The key market of Java re...
Possible power price hike to increase Vietnamese production costs by US$35m
Vietnamese cement producers can expect a production cost rise by around VND800bn (US$35.2m) annually if a hike in power prices comes into effect, according to local industry so...
Colombia sees 3.6% market expansion
Cement consumption in Colombia increased 3.6 per cent from 993,700t in October 2016 to 1,029,400t in October 2017, according the country’s statistics office, DANE. The rise ...
Possible relief from petcoke ban for India’s cement sector?
The Indian Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) is likely to exempt the cement industry from the partial petcoke ban for industrial use, according to a report in The Hindu...
New 7Mta cement facility planned in Tanzania
Tanzania is expected to see the construction of a new 7Mta cement plant as part of a two-phase US$2.35bn Chinese investment over 10 years that will also include the building of...
CTP wins Karsdorf SCR technology order
CTP Chemisch Thermische Prozesstechnik GmbH, based in Graz, Austria, has signed a contract with Opterra, a CRH company, for the supply of two new LD-SCR (low-dust, selective-ca...
New 2500tpd plant to be built in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has formerly agreed that the construction of a cement plant with a capacity of 2500tpd to be built by Hong Kong company Sino-Harbor Construction Group in the Aktyub...
Paraguay’s INC announces record sales in November
Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC) announced record sales of 1.2m bags in November 2017. Jorge Méndez, president of the Paraguayan cement producer, said the company sold 1...
Pakistani cement industry reaches 93% utilisation rate
The first four months of FY17-18 have seen robust growth in Pakistani cement demand and as a result, the cement industry’s capacity utilisation rate has risen to over 93 per ce...
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