CRH rules out supply to Trump’s planned Mexican wall
CRH CEO, Albert Manifold, has insisted that its US businesses will not supply materials for the construction of Donald Trump's planned wall between the USA and Mexico. He sai...
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Borneo: CMS Cement not raising prices
CMS Cement Sdn Bhd has no plans to raise cement prices. Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad (CMSB) Group Managing Director, Datuk Richard Curtis, said: “Whenever there is pressure on th...
Egypt: Sinai Cement returns to black
Fortune took a turn for the better for Sinai Cement in 2016. The company improved its net results significantly as it reported a net profit of EGP13.47m (US$835,183). In 2015, ...
Siam City Cement renames Holcim's former Vietnam operations
Siam City Cement Public Co Ltd (SCCC), Thailand’s second-largest cement producer, announced it will rename its Holcim Vietnam Co into Siam City Cement Vietnam. SCCC signed...
Egypt: Suez Cement reports deepening net loss
Suez Cement has reported a deepening net loss of EGP629.3m (US$33.8m) for 2016. This compares with EGP100.8m reported in 2015. Part of HeidelbergCement following its Italcem...
Cemex will ‘gladly’ supply materials for Trump border wall
Cemex board Chairman, Rogelio Zambrano, has stated that Cemex would be happy to give estimates for the supply of cement to companies building the US-Mexico border wall, Reuters...
Pakistan: Bestway Cement awards Sinoma brownfield project
Bestway Cement Ltd informed the Pakistan Stock Exchange that it will set up a brownfield cement plant with a capacity of 6000tpd clinker at its Farooqia site in District Haripu...
Egypt: Tourah Cement sees improving net loss in 2016
Tourah Cement has reported improved company results in 2016. The company reduced its net loss from EGP218.97m (US$13.5m) in 2015 to EGP151.05m in 2016. Tourah Cement is a sub...
CRH 2016 gross profits up 69%
CRH released its 2016 results with its gross profits at EUR1741m up by 69 per cent on its EUR1033m in 2015. Operating profits were also up EUR2027m, as against EUR1277 a year e...
Cameroon cement plants produce 2.6Mt in 2016
Cameroon’s cement producers – Cimencam, Dangote, Cimaf and Necsen – have produced a combined output of 2.6Mt of cement in 2016, according to Camerpost. Total installed cemen...
Hengya Cement gives green light to US$1bn Tanzania investment
Hengya Cement, a subsidiary of China's Hengyuan International Engineering Group, has announced that it will build a new cement plant in Tanga on Tanzania's northeast coast, rep...
India: Prism Cement receives part-fuel requirement for 5 years
Prism Cement Ltd has successfully bid for 18,300tpa of coal from South Eastern Coalfields Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, in a recently-held auction of coal linkages for t...
Irish Cement to reduce fossil fuel use, plans WHR project
Irish Cement is currently preparing to replace fossil fuels at its Platin works in Co Meath, Ireland. The project started with a planning application to Meath County Council ...
Myanmar: first Loesche mills
Yojin Construction and Engineering Co Ltd (South Korea) has placed an order for two vertical roller mills with Loesche. The two VRM are to be used at the new clinker grinding p...
Ireland: council to monitor Irish Cement Mungret emissions
Limerick City and County Council is to set up a station to monitor the air quality near the Irish Cement plant in Mungret. The move comes ahead of a planned demonstration in op...
Nigeria: Dangote exports 0.4Mt in 2016
Following a continuous increase in its production capacity, Dangote Cement marked the end of Nigeria’s dependence on imported product by exporting 0.4Mt in 2016. In its 2016...
Vicat's profits modestly ahead in 2016
Vicat's turnover eased by 0.2 per cent in 2016 to EUR2453.8m while EBITDA was up by the 3.2 per cent to EUR458m, while at unchanged exchange rates and other parameters there wo...
Semen Indonesia 2016 net profit plateaus
Semen Indonesia posted a 0.2 per cent increase in net income in 2016 last year amid falling sales and revenue, according to a company filing on Monday. The state-controlled ...
Croatia: HeidelbergCement appeals Commission's decision
HeidelbergCement AG has appealed against an EU Commission decision from 10 October 2016 that initiated an in-depth Phase II investigation into the joint acquisition of Cemex Cr...
Philippines cement sales rise 6.6% in 2016
Philippine cement sales increased 6.6 per cent to 25.96Mt in 2016 from 24.36Mt the previous year, according to the Cement Manufacturers Association of the Philippines (CeMAP). ...
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