New Zealand: Golden Bay Cement is still going strong after 100 years
Golden Bay Cement's Portland plant clocked over 100 years of buiness last year, when it also celebrated a new 6000t storage silo, ship loading facility upgrades and its workers...
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Malaysia: Borneo Oil signs US$18m limestone deposit deal
According to reports in the Star newspaper, Borneo Oil has signed a 30-year deal enabling it to mine marble and limestone in Lahad Datu, Borneo. In an announcement to the Ma...
South Korea: carbon emission quota increased
On 24 January the South Korean government increased the carbon emissions quota by 1700t to 539Mt and added 51Mt to emission rights in view of companies’ efforts for greenhouse ...
Qatar National Cement reports a 14% increase in 4Q profit
Qatar National Cement reported a profit rise of 14.4 per cent YoY to QAR119.62m (US$32.8m) in 4Q16 from QAR104.6m in 4Q15. Full-year 2016 profits increased 2.5 per cent YoY t...
Oficemen: plant closure possibility if power price continues to rise
Oficemen warned of a potential closure of cement plants and stoppages if the price of electricity in Spain continues to rise and cement production becomes more expensive, endan...
Spanish cement market contracts 3.1% in 2016
Cement demand in Spain closed at 11,140,639t in 2016, representing a 3.1 per cent YoY fall, according to Oficemen, the country's cement association. In December, domestic cemen...
Gebr Pfeiffer awarded Cemminerals grinding contract
Grinding specialist Gebr Pfeiffer was awarded the order for a grinding plant for slag and cement by Cemminerals NV. The Belgian cement producer is in the process of establishin...
USA: Portland and blended cement shipments fall in October 2016
US Geological Survey (USGS) reports that the shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in October 2016 were about 9Mt, down by 3.4 per cent ...
SCG predicts Thai cement consumption will recover in 2017
Despite a disappointing performance in 2016, Siam Cement Group believes that demand in the Thai market will recover in 2017, reaching some 40Mt, the Bangkok Post reports. In...
Pakistan exports of cement show dismal figure in 6MFY2016-17
Pakistan cement exporters have earned revenues of US$16.36m on exports of 309,868t cement in December 2016, compared to US$23.68m on 455,720t of exports in the previous month. ...
Mombasa Cement to build 36MW wind farm in Kilifi
Mombasa Cement is set to build a 36MW wind farm in Kilifi for its own energy use and sale to Kenya Power. The project, which consists of 12 turbines of 3MW each, will cost an e...
Cemex and GCC announce offering to sell 23% stake in GCC
Cemex, SAB de CV and Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, SAB de CV (GCC) announced that they will commence offerings that are expected to include an aggregate of up to 76,483,332 shar...
Saudi Arabia: Yamama Cement mothballs five clinker lines
In an announcement to the Saudi Arabian stock exchange, Yamama Cement has said that it will temporarily close five clinker production lines with a combined capacity of 5600tpd....
Egypt: Misr Beni Suef Cement postpones coal mill
Misr Beni Suef Cement Company has postponed the installation of a coal mill at its Beni Suef plant to the 3Q17. The coal mill is expected to cost EGP18m (US$0.96m). Managing...
Eagle Materials improves profit by 44 per cent
Including its share of the jointly-owned Texas Lehigh Cement, the turnover of Eagle Materials for the first nine months to 31 December 2016 increased by 3.7 per cent to US$1.01...
Algeria: thyssenkrupp awarded 6000tpd plant order
Société des Cements Sigus, a subsidiary of Groupe Industriel des Cements d'Algerie (GICA), has placed an order with thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions for a new 6000tpd plant. T...
Uganda: Hima Cement begins construction of Tororo grinding station
Hima Cement has begun work on a US$40m grinding station in the Tororo district of eastern Uganda, The Observer reports. The 1Mta plant is being built in a region that alread...
Pakistan: construction of US$245m Haripur cement plant gets go-ahead
The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak, has approved plans to invest US$245m in the construction of a cement plant in Haripur, The Dawn reports. The moves ...
CIMAT posts revenues down by a quarter for 2016
Ciment de l’Atlas (CIMAT) expects to report revenues of MAD2.16bn (US$215.7m) in 2016, compared with MAD2.67bn the year prior. The company attributes the drop to the decelerat...
UAE: Ras Al Khaimah hit by cement plant emissions
The Environment Protection and Development Authority (EPDA), has launched an investigation into dust clouds and emsisions from the Ras Al Khaimah cement factory following obser...
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