Semen Indonesia president director passes away
Rizkan Chandra, president director of Semen Indonesia passed away on Saturday, 15 July following a short illness. Agung Wiharto, Semen Indonesia's corporate secretary confir...
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Sergio Martínez new plant manager at Holcim Carboneras
LafargeHolcim España has appointed Sergio Martínez Hernández as new plant manager at the company’s Carboneras plant. With more than 24 years of experience in the company, Mr ...
Positive trends in European construction recovery
The recovery in European construction activity appears to be making progress with improvements being seen in the housing segment in some key markets, while civil engineering ac...
Caribbean Cement Co to refinance operating lease
Caribbean Cement Co plans to refinance the operating lease for its Rockfort plant in Kingston, the Jamaica Gleaner reports. The company is to set up a dedicated advisory boar...
Expected decline in 2Q Saudi cement sales
Saudi cement sales volumes are expected to have declined by 17 per cent YoY and 11 per cent QoQ due to a lower pace of project spending, Riyadh Capital writes in its latest pre...
LafargeHolcim inaugurates first dedicated Durabric plant in Malawi
One year after the launch of 14Trees, LafargeHolcim’s and CDC’s joint venture to scale-up Durabric, 13 July 2017 marks the next step in its development with the inauguration of...
Cemex Aggregates signs new lease agreement
Cemex Aggregates has signed a new 10 year-lease for an 8.2 acre marine terminal with the Port of Redwood City i n South San Francisco Bay, USA, with an option to extend the le...
BBMG Corp expects increase in 2Q net profit
BBMG Corp said it expects to record a net profit attributable to shareholders of between CNY1825m (US$269m) and CNY1900m for the six months ended 30 June 2017, as compared to t...
Raysut to hold EGM on Oman Portuguese Cement Products sale
Raysut Cement has invited its shareholders to attend an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to discuss and approve the sale of Raysut Cement’s entire share in Oman Portuguese...
Aggregate Industries appoint new MD of Aggregates division
Aggregate Industries, part of the LafargeHolcim Group, has appointed Mike Pearce as the Managing Director of its Aggregates division, as the company looks to cement its positio...
Hima Cement signs supply deal for Uganda infrastructure
Uganda-based Hima Cement is to supply infrastructure projects being undertaken by China Communications Construction Co Ltd (CCCC) in the East African country under a new trade ...
Cemex USA updates on 2016 environmental investments
Cemex further demonstrated its commitment to sustainable business practices in 2016, investing more than US$50m on projects and improvements in cement plant operations and othe...
Bamburi gears up for grinding expansion
Bamburi Cement is set to start expansion of its Athi River grinding plant in Kenya next month, wth a senior executive saying that it has completed pre-construction preparation ...
FLSmidth to acquire part of Sandvik Mining Systems
FLSmidth has reached an agreement to acquire a part of Sandvik Mining Systems. This includes continuous surface mining and minerals handling technologies and competences that w...
Salonit Anhovo recognised for AF usage
The Slovenian cement producer Salonit Anhovo has won a bronze EBRD Sustainable Energy Award for substantial progress in the use of non-hazardous solid recovered waste in the en...
Algeria’s GICA to produce 20Mta of cement by 2019-20
Algeria’s Groupe Industriel des Ciments d’Algérie (GICA) will increase its production to 20Mta by 2019-20, said company spokesperson Azzeddine Asfirane. The increase in outp...
Cemex to supply special concrete for new terminal
Cemex expects to supply 21,500m 3 of roller-compacted concrete (RCC) to pave all of the roads for the new terminal of ALA Transportes, a division of Grupo Transportes de Monte...
Scan Togo Awandjelo works to be inaugurated
Scan Togo’s new works at Awandjélo in Togo’s Kara region will be inaugurated on 15 July, according to local news reports. The HeidelbergCement-owned works represents an invest...
Cement demand in Brazil continues fall in 1H17
Cement sales in Brazil in the 1H17 fell 8.8 per cent YoY as the domestic market required 26.015Mt of cement, according to Brazil’s cement association, Sindicato Nacional de la ...
LafargeHolcim accelerates biodiversity efforts in southeast Asia
LafargeHolcim is accelerating its efforts on biodiversity conservation and has signed an agreement with Fauna & Flora International (FFI), a leading NGO focussed on biodiversit...
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