LafargeHolcim supplied 30 concrete types to Elbphilharmonie
LafargeHolcim will see the completion of new Elbphilharmonie concert facilities in Hamburg, Germany, today. The cement producer delivered some 30 different types of concrete to...
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Georgia: Gebr Pfeiffer mill for Heidelberg's Kaspi plant
Gebr Pfeiffer has received an order from HeidelbergCement for a vertical roller mill, which is due to be set up in its new 3000tpd kiln line at the group’s Kaspi plant in Georg...
Indonesia - new investment must be outside Java
Estimates released by the Indonesian Ministry of Industry indicate that total national cement capacity in 2017 will reach 102Mta versus a total requirement of 70Mta. In respons...
India: Burnpur Cement blames demonetisation for repayment failures
Burnpur Cement has declared its inability to repay bank loans on Saturday due to demonetisation as its repayments had turned “irregular” with lenders because of “depressed” mar...
USA: Bessemer Cement partly under Argos ownership
Argos USA purchased 13.92 acres of the 114 acre Bessemer Cement plant site from Essroc Cement Corp for US$1,226,026 in November 2016, according to a deed of transfer from the ...
Semen Indonesia net profit down by 3% in 2016
PT Semen Indonesia Tbk made a net profit of IDR4.01trn (US$301.6m) in 2016, which was lower than the IDR4.52trn the previous year. "National cement growth in the year was do...
Cemex amends Trinidad Cement bid
Cemex has announced that its indirect subsidiary, Sierra Trading, will present a change and variation notice making an amended offer to the offer and take-over bid of Trinidad ...
Shree Digvijay Cement Co awaiting environmental clearance for Pachhtardi
Shree Digvijay Cement Co is currently awaiting environmental clearance for the 0.35Mta (ROM) Pachhtardi limestone mining project near Pacchtardi village in Taluka Bhanvad, Guja...
Bestway signs coal transport MoU with Pakistan Railways
Bestway Cement Co and Pakistan Railways have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for transporting from Sindh to Punjab. Under the MoU coal would be transported from P...
Pakistan: Lucky Cement's Pezu plant is operating normally
It has been clarified by a leading research house after consulting management of Lucky Cement in Pakistan that Pezu cement plant was not shut down on account of an environmenta...
Preliminary data show US cement demand over 9Mt in October
Portland and blended cement shipments by US producers to the domestic market in October 2016 reached 8,012,653t, according to preliminary figures of the US Geological Survey (U...
Swiss cement demand advances 4.2% in 2016
Swiss cement producers dispatched 1,076,007t of cement in 4Q16, up 1.6 per cent from 1,058,619t delivered in 4Q15, according to the latest data of the country's cement associat...
Semen Indonesia expects 5% sales growth in 2017
State-owned cement company PT Semen Indonesia (Persero) Tbk is targeting 4-5 per cent sales growth in 2017. Semen Indonesia Corporate Secretary Agung Wiharto said that new p...
Cement mill delivered to Angolan plant
Last week, project cargo handler Yuexin Logistics completed delivery of major cement plant components from Shanghai to Luanda in Angola. The delivery is believed to relate to ...
Nepal: cement grading process delayed
Although the Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology (NBSM) says it has penned a quality certification draft, the government is yet to begin the grading process for domestic ce...
USA: Ash Grove Cement Durkee plant awarded Energy Star Certification
Ash Grove Cement today announced that its Durkee plant, Oregon, has been awarded the 2016 ENERGY STAR ® plant certification. The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) E...
Indonesia: domestic cement sales weaken in November
The first 11 months of 2016 Indonesian cement sales reached a total of 56.5Mt, up 2.8 per cent YoY from domestic cement sales in the same period one year earlier. However, do...
Semen Indonesia IDR6trn expansion
Semen Indonesia has designated IDR6trn (US$449.1m) for capital expenditure in 2017 to finance its expansion programme. The programme includes the development of four plants set...
Algeria: second production unit at Ain El Kebira commissioned
Minister of Industry and Mining, Abdesslam Bouchouareb, has inaugurated the second production unit at GICA’s cement plant at Ain El Kebira, Setif. The 2Mta unit will help Alger...
India: Sagar Cements sees sales dip in December
In a trading statement released this week, Sagar Cement has reported a slight decline in cement sales for December compared with a year earlier. Consolidated results – which in...
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