Cemex requests new authorisation to increase capacity in Colombia
Cemex Latam Holdings has announced it will present a new application for an environmental permit which would enable the Mexico-based cement producer to increase capacity at its...
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India: Udaipur Cement Works starts commercial production
Udaipur Cement Works has completed its rehabilitation programme at its Udaipur cement works and started commercial production at the integrated works on 31 March 2017. The pl...
Semen Indonesia appoints former intelligence chief Sutiyoso
PT Semen Indonesia has appointed former Jakarta governor and State Intelligence Agency (BIN) director, Sutiyoso, its president commissioner. Sutiyoso served as BIN chief u...
Cemex publishes report on environmental and social achievements in 2016
Cemex has published its first integrated report , covering 2016. The report brings together the information that the company had in published in separate annual and sustainabi...
Colombian cement dispatches slip 3.6% in Feb17
Colombia's cement market in February 2017 contracted 3.6 per cent to 1.008Mt when compared with February 2016, according to DANE, the country's statistics office. Domestic c...
Saudi Arabia: sales volume falls 20% in 2M17
Cement sales in Saudi Arabia remain weak and see a further downward revision in sector earnings for 2017. In the first two months of 2017, sales volume fell 20.4 per cent o...
Caribbean: TCL make takeover bid for Readymix (West Indies) Ltd
Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL), recently acquired by Mexican cement giant Cemex via its subsidiary Sierra Trading, has announced an all-cash takeover bid for Readymix (West Indies) ...
Taiwan: Chia Hsin Cement sees 11% revenue rise, pretax profit drop
Chia Hsin Cement Corp of Taiwan reported an 11 per cent rise in revenues to TWD3.14bn (US$103.3m) in 2016 when compared with TWD2.83bn in 2015. However, pretax profits dippe...
LafargeHolcim opens Construction Development Lab in Morocco
LafargeHolcim has opened a new Construction Development Lab (CDL) in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. The laboratory, the firm’s eighth, joins those in Algeria, Argentina, C...
Sika opens new cement plant in Coatzacoalcos
Sika announced the opening of a new mortar cement factory in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. The new plant will also start production of concrete additives previously owned by...
InterCement for sale?
Once again, there is speculation that Camargo Corrêa, the Brazilian conglomerate, is seeking to dispose of InterCement, its subsidiary and controlling shareholder of Cimpor SG...
Paris council to stop LafargeHolcim orders over Trump wall supply offer
The city of Paris has criticised LafargeHolcim for its willingness to supply material for the wall that US President Donald Trump plans to build along the Mexican border. The...
India: ACC Cement announces capex plan of INR6bn for 2017
ACC Cement have announced a capital expenditure plan of INR6bn (US$92.4m) for the coming financial year, CEO and Managing Director, Neeraj Akhoury, said at the company's annual...
Zimbabwe: President Mugabe opens PPC cement grinding plant in Harare
PPC's US$85m cement 0.7Mta grinding plant at Msasa, Harare, has been officially opened by President Robert Mugabe. The plant is PPC’s third production site in the country. T...
Pakistan: Gharibwal Cement to site new plant in Haripur
In an announcement to the Pakistan Stock Exchange, Gharibwal Cement has said that has been awarded a licence to prospect for limestone in Haripur district with a view to establ...
Cameroon: LafargeHolcim launches construction of EUR42.6m cement plant
LafargeHolcim Maroc Afrique has launched construction of a new 0.5Mta plant in the Cameroonian locality of Nomayos, near Yaoundé. The new project required a total investment of...
Gornozavodsktsement FY16 net profit down to RUB370.8m
Gornozavodsktsement reported a -9.9 per cent drop in revenues to RUB3.65bn (US$64.7m) in FY16 vs RUB4.05bn in FY15, according to Russian accounting standards. FY16 net profi...
Canada: McInnis's transport network progresses
McInnis Cement is actively developing its distribution network that will support the delivery of cement to its customers. Commercial operations are scheduled to begin this spri...
Malaysia: former Tasek Cement director finds contentment in food
Datuk David Tan Sek Yin, former executive director of Tasek Corporation Bhd (1986-2004), now spends his days over a hot stove making Ipoh kai si hor fun (shredded chicken kuey ...
Vietnam: missing seamen after clinker ship sinks
Nine Vietnamese seafarers are listed as missing following a collision involving a clinker carrying ship off Vietnam’s southern coast on Tuesday morning. The 3075dwt Hai Thanh...
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