Earlier cement industry news and analysis from International Cement Review's global newsroom.
The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) is set to up its investigation of alleged violations of competitive practices in the local cement industry. The country's anti-tru...
Siam Cement Group’s wholly-owned subsidiary SCG Cement-Building Materials Co has acquired 100 per cent of Vietnam Construction Materials JSC, an integrated cement operator in c...
Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) has forecast construction activity to remain sluggish during the coming year, particularly in Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, in the face of "increa...
Three companies have been awarded prospecting rights for limestone mining in Nyimba District, Eastern province, Zambia. GTJ Ltd working with the Zambia Consolidated Mines In...
Cementir Holding’s cement and clinker sales for 2016 amounted to 10.1Mt in 2016, up 7.9 per cent on 2015. Strong sales in Malaysia and Scandinavia offset poor returns in Italy,...
Pakistan cement exporters earned revenues of US$22.26m on exports of 411,257t cement in January 2017, compared to US$16.36m on 309,868t of exports in the previous month. These...
Vietnam sold 9.4Mt of cement in the first two months of 2017, representing a 0.4 per cent decrease when compared with January-February 2016, according to the Vietnamese Ministr...
The process of registering to import cement into Brunei Darussalam will take three working days, according to the country’s Energy and Industry Department. The office recent...
Siam City Cement Plc is looking to expand its production of malta cement to gain better returns from expected market growth driven by increased infrastructure spending in Thail...
Chairperson of the Suez Cement Company, Omar Mohanna, has said that Suez Cement Company aims to boost productivity at Helwan Cement after completing its plan to convert the pla...
Tanzanian President, John Magufuli, has taken action to enable Dangote Cement to start mining its own coal to power its new US$650m Mtwara cement factory. Speaking at the off...
Minister of Industries, Mining and Trade, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, reported that Iran exported 11.5Mt of cement during the 11 months to 18 February 2017. Mr Nematzadeh expe...
LafargeHolcim has released details of an internal investigation into the conduct of its employees running the Jalabiya cement works up to 2014. The investigation was launche...
Qatar National Cement Company (QNCC) is planning to increase its cement production capacity by 5500tpd during the first half of the current year. Salem bin Butti Al Naimi, chai...
LafargeHolcim saw its net profit double on an annual basis to CHF1.9bn for 2016 (US$1.87bn), against CHF970m a year earlier. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, deprec...
Holcim Croatia saw its revenues rise by seven per cent YoY in 2016 as it improved exports. In addition, the company reduced its expenditures and kept cash flow high. However,...
Holcim Philippines (LafargeHolcim group) reported a lower net income of PHP6.8bn (US$134.8m) last year, compared to the PHP8.1bn recorded in 2015. The 2015 profit included a ...
LafargeHolcim has expressed an interest in supplying construction materials to the US-Mexican border wall to be built under the Trump administration. The wall is one of the m...
This week Dangote Cement held a press conference on its 2016 results and explained why its market strategy in Nigeria changed from a volume-based approach to one focussing on c...
CRH confirmed with its annual 2016 results, that it will sell a large portion of its German cement assets, as part of a wider EUR400m divestment programme. The company has ag...
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