India: Emami commissions 2Mta grinding plant in West Bengal
Emami has commissioned its 2Mta cement grinding unit at the Panagarh Industrial Park in the Burdwan district of West Bengal, India. The INR7bn (US$107m) works has been devel...
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Gaza receives Saudi Arabian housing aid and Israeli cement
Saudi Arabia has contributed US$80m towards reconstructing Gaza homes destroyed during the 2014 Israeli military bombing, Minister of Housing, Mufeed Hasayneh, said on Thursday...
Malaysia: competition escalates
2016 was a tough year for the Malaysia cement sector: demand fell, capacity increased and prices suffered as a consequence. Nevertheless, there was optimistic news this week t...
Titan FY16 results bring net profits of EUR278.6m
Titan Group's 2016 financial results recorded a significant improvement in profitability, thanks to the continuing growth of the US market and the recovery of results in Egyp...
Pakistan: exports continue to decline in 8MFY16-17
Pakistan cement exporters have earned revenues of US$12.24m on exports of 229,819t cement in February 2017, compared to US$22.268m on 411,257t of exports in the previous month...
Lafarge Africa reports EBITDA FY16 of NGN29bn
Lafarge Africa plc reports a significant increase in profit after tax in 4Q16 while net sales and operating EBITDA rose by 12 and 288 per cent, respectively in 4Q16. However...
Philippines: infrastructure rebuild to drive cement demand
President Rodrigo Duterte’s infrastructure overhaul is expected to drive demand for cement and create a “multiplier effect” in the construction sector, according to an official...
Adelaide Brighton appoints Zlatko Todorcevski as non-executive director
Australia’s Adelaide Brighton has appointed Zlatko Todorcevski as non-executive director with effect from 22 March 2017. Mr Todorcevski is President of the Group of 100, the ...
Ethiopian production faces disruptions over jobs plan
Regional officials in Ethiopia are demanding that foreign cement producers, including Dangote Cement and Derba Midroc Cement, should let cooperatives of unemployed young adults...
China: Fujian Province cement plant collapse kills four
Four people have died following the collapse of a structure at a cement plant in Zhangzhou City, eastern Fujian Province. The incident occurred on 20 March when a building in Z...
Bolivia awards Potosí contract to German-Spanish consortium
The Bolivian government has awarded the US$241m contract to construct a new cement plant in Potosí to a consortium of Germany-based thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions and Spanis...
Indocement expects 3-5 per cent rise in domestic consumption
Indonesia's second-largest cement producer, PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa, expects domestic cement consumption to increase by 3-5 per cent in 2017, its President Director, Chr...
Northern Indian producers implement second March price hike
Cement price rises at the end of the financial year are generally avoided in India as they slow down sales, but this year cement producers in the north are breaking with “tradi...
Enersize signs new order wtih BBMG, China
Enersize Oyj of Finland has signed an agreement to provide its system for measurements and efficiency analysis of energy usage in industrial compressed air systems to the BBMG...
Nepal: Hetauda Cement sees improved pricing environment
Nepal-based cement producer Hetauda Cement Factory recorded a profit of NPR40m (US$382,292) in the last fiscal year and is now targeting a profit of NPR200m in the current fisc...
Semen Indonesia postpones Rembang opening
Publicly-listed cement manufacturer PT Semen Indonesia (SI) has decided to postpone the initial launch of its new production facility in Rembang, Central Java, for several mont...
Cimpor books larger loss in 2016
With declining volumes in Cimpor's three most important markets. In Brazil, Argentina and Portugal, the turnover fell by 26.1 per cent in 2016 to EUR1842.8m and EBITDA came off...
Lafarge Malaysia earnings expected to bounce back
Lafarge Malaysia Bhd’s (Lafarge) earnings are expected to bounce back in FY17 and FY18 on the back of local cement sales growth as well as contributions from its collaboration ...
Arkan to close UAE factory
Building materials industrial conglomerate Arkan has announced its decision to permanently close its Emirates Cement Factory (ECF) in Al Ain, Gulf Digital News has reported. ...
REDECAM and ISGEC joint venture starts operations
REDECAM Group SpA and and ISGEC Heavy Engineering Ltd on Friday announced the establishment of a joint venture in the field of air pollution control. Headquartered in Noida,...
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