FLSmidth receives COBOCE OK™ mill order
FLSmidth has been awarded an order for engineering, procurement and supply of equipment for a new OK T™ 43-4 vertical cement mill for Cooperativa Boliviana de Cemento's (COBOC...
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JK Cement plans expansion spree
JK Cement is planning to almost double its grey cement capacity to 18Mta in four years with brownfield and greenfield expansions. The company is embarking on a brownfield ex...
Elementia restructures debt with new seven-year loan
Elementia, SAB de CV has announced that it obtained a loan from Citi Banamex for MXN925m (US$49.6m) over a seven-year term, with payments beginning in the first half of 2020, g...
Kenyan producers to cut cement prices
Cement companies intend to lower their prices and achieve regional competitiveness following the reduction in local off-peak power prices. President Uhuru Kenyatta's directive ...
Vietnam sees 7% rise in output in 11M17
Vietnam produced 77.9Mt of cement in the first 11 months of this year, representing a 6.6 per cent rise YoY, according to the latest data from the government-run General Statis...
Taiwan Cement Corp increase shipment prices
Taiwan Cement Corp are to raise product prices for shipments to Guangdong and Guangxi provinces by CNY20 (US$3)/t to CNY360, as reported by Taipei Times. The increase in price ...
Cementos Bío Bío seeks improvement with innovation index
Cementos Bio Bío (CBB) of Chile has begin a collaborative project with Innspiral, the first accelerator of corporate innovation in Chile and Latin America. The aim is to engen...
EPA to take Irish cement to court re emissions incident
The Environmental Protection Agency has initiated legal proceedings against Irish Cement for alleged breaches of its operating licence at its Limerick plant. The EPA has co...
Dangote Cement to begin selling products on Jumia
Dangote Cement will begin selling its products on the e-commerce platform, Jumia. This is an attempt establish a secure platform for customers to purchase products, thereby avo...
Fujian Cement to buy limestone mining rights
China-based Fujian Cement plans to buy mining rights of a 0.2Mta limestone mine and a 0.03Mta cement siliceous material ore mine from Shunchang Lugunshan Limestone Mine and Shu...
Votorantim gets cold feet in Chile
This week saw a change in the stakeholder share in Chilean producer Cementos Bio Bio with Brazil-based Votorantim selling 13.1 per cent of the shares in the company to the Br...
Lafarge Africa to cut debt by US$270m
Lafarge Africa will use some of the funds raised by a NGN131.6bn (US$415m) rights issue to cut debt by US$270m, as reported by Reuters. The company inherited US$507m in shar...
Tajikistan and Pakistan discuss ways to improve trade relations
Representatives from Tajikistan and Pakistan have discussed ways to improve trade relations for the mutual benefit of both countries, with the cement industry identified as a p...
Secret of future cement strength lies in sea urchins?
Research carried out by the University of Konstanz, Germany, has helped to develop a cement that is resistant to fractures. The research highlighted that while the spines of ...
India’s petcoke ban to benefit Pakistani cement industry
The recent ban on the use of petcoke in India’s National Capital Region (NCR) is expected to have beneficial impact on Pakistan’s cement industry. While it is predicted that...
Jammu & Kashmir government plans co-processing of plastic waste
In India, the Jammu and Kashmir government is considering the use of polythene and plastic material waste, which accounts for around 20 per cent of waste collection, to fire ce...
PPC plans Western Cape mega plant
PPC is planning to build a new large-capacity plant in the Western Cape, South Africa. The company is expected to make a formal announcement about the new works next year, acco...
Cemento Melon sees 57% 3Q profit drop
Cemento Melon, Chile, reported a 56.8 per cent drop YoY in profits to CLP5bn in 3Q17. Sales have fallen 13.6 per cent to CLP136.5bn when compared with the year-ago period, w...
Norwegian CO2 capture project completes testing phase
A 'key milestone' on a collaborative project to deliver CO 2 capture technology efficiency has been reached claims Westec Environmental Solutions (Verditek group) and project ...
CMS sees 3Q profit rise
Malaysia's Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd (CMS) reported 3Q17 consolidated revenues of MYR347.968m (US$85.12m), down 2.3 per cent from MYR356.06m in 3Q16. Profit before tax edged up...
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