HeidelbergCement and RWTH Aachen to research 'CO2MIN'
HeidelbergCement and Aachen University are setting up a three-year project to investigate absorbing CO 2 from flue gas using olivine and basalt. Funded by EUR3m from the Germa...
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Pablo Libreros appointed Aggregate Industries’ Growth and Innovation Director
As part of its ongoing commitment to being the foremost business in the construction products industry, Aggregate Industries has appointed Pablo Libreros as the new Growth and ...
Argentine cement market expands 9% YoY in May
Argentina’s cement demand increased 9.8 per cent YoY to 967,695t, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. The rise in consumption is mainly attributable to an i...
MPA publishes new water strategy
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published its new Water Strategy, outlining the industry's three key aims of minimising water consumption, prioritising the use of th...
Cement Hranice sees sales and profits rise in 2016
Dyckerhoff-owned Cement Hranice reported a one per cent rise in sales in CZK1.476bn (US$0.064m) in 2016. Net profit of the Czech cement producer advanced from CZK410m to CZK424...
SCG establishes joint venture logistics company in Indonesia
SCG Cement - Building Materials Company (SCG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siam Cement Co (SCC) and PT Barito Investa Prima, have agreed to establish PT SCG Barito Logistics i...
Delays in offloading clinker at Chittagong following marine incident
Delays in the offloading of clinker have been experienced at Bangladesh's Chittagong Port after bulk carrier Ocean Phoenix, laden with 45,000t of clinker on board, started to d...
Lafarge Canada awards long-term charter to NovaAlgoma Cement Carriers
NovaAlgoma Cement Carriers Ltd announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary NACC Shipping Canada Ltd has been awarded a long-term time charter agreement with Lafarge Canada Inc, ...
Colombian sales dip under 1Mt mark
Colombian grey cement deliveries slipped 0.6 per cent YoY to 0.999Mt in May 2017, according to DANE, the country’s statistics office. This compares favourably with a 5.3 per ce...
Moody's upgrades Eagle to Investment Grade
Moody's Investors Service upgraded the senior unsecured debt ratings of US-based Eagle Materials Inc to Baa3 from Ba1. The rating outlook is stable. The upgrade reflects Mood...
Conch to begin Ulyanovsk plant construction in 2018
Anhui Conch Cement of China plans to begin construction of a cement plant in Russia's Ulyanovsk region, in spring 2018, local media have reported citing the press office of the...
Holcim New Zealand posts full-year loss
Holcim New Zealand, reported a loss of NZD12.3m (US$8.9m) for 2016 from a profit of NZD80m in the previous year, as it transitioned from ceasing cement production from its Wes...
4M17 sales retreat 5.3% in Morocco
Cement sales in Morocco have fallen 5.3 per cent in the first four months of 2017 YoY following a 3.5 per cent rise the previous year, according to the Moroccan Economics and F...
Production in construction up 0.3% in euro area
In April 2017 compared with March 2017, seasonally-adjusted production in the construction sector increased by 0.3 per cent in the euro area (EA19) and remained stable in the E...
Ube Industries increases stake in Tokyo Cement
Japan-based Ube Industries' Singapore subsidiary Ube Singapore Holdings has acquired a further 10.62m shares in Sri Lanka-based Tokyo Cement Company Lanka Plc, for LKR764.6m (U...
Tula project major milestones
In May 2015 Cementos Fortaleza SA de CV awarded Fives with an EPC contract for the design, supply, erection and commissioning of a new complete 3300tpd production line to be in...
WEG supplies Itacamba Cemento
WEG has successfully installed several electric motors for Bolivian producer Itacamba Cemento SA, owned by Votorantim Cimentos SA and Cementos Molins. The WEG package include...
Martin Marietta Materials to acquire Bluegrass
Martin Marietta Materials Inc and Bluegrass Materials Company announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Martin Marietta will acquire aggregates c...
Peru cement market contracts 2% in May
Peru’s cement demand reached 774,000t in May, reflecting a two per cent drop YoY, according to Asocem, the country’s cement association. Total deliveries, including exports, de...
Closure notice issued to three Telangana plants
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has directed three cement manufacturing units in Telangana state to shut down their operations and issued show-cause notices to 11 ot...
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