Philippines: Taiheiyo contributes to National Greening Programme
Employees from Taiheiyo Cement Philippines Inc and Solid Earth Development Corp planted 5350 seedlings across different sites in San Fernando in support of the National Greenin...
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Colombia's road ahead
In a week that has seen LafargeHolcim announcing the start of construction of a new 0.5Mta cement plant in Buga and Cementos Argos reporting a significant fall in profits for ...
USA: preliminary September cement shipments total 8.78Mt
Preliminary data published by the US Geological Survey (USGS) concerning US shipments of cement in September 2016 estimates that Portland and blended cement consumption fell to...
Pakistan: cement industry export revenue falls in 4MFY16-17
Pakistan cement manufacturers earned revenues of US$28.3m on 543,674t of cement exports in October 2016, compared to US$24.52m on 476,170t of exports in the previous month. The...
Pakistan: Kohat Cement Co sees 5% profit rise in 1QFY17
Kohat Cement Company Ltd (KOHC) has recently announced its 1QFY17 financial result. It declared a profit after tax (PAT) of PKR991.8m during 1QFY17 against a PAT of PKR945.7m d...
Birla 2Q16 net profit more than doubles
Birla Corporation have reported a net profit of INR584m (US$8.49m) for the quarter ended 30 September 2016 compared to INR232m for the same period last year. Total income de...
Cementos Argos hit by Colombia’s infrastructure slowdown
In a trading update for the third quarter of 2016, Cementos Argos announced that its profits were down by 22.7 per cent YoY, with cement volumes falling by 7.4 per cent to 3.55...
India: COMPAT stays UltraTech’s CCI penalty
The Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) has granted a stay on an order passed by the Competition Commmission of India (CCI) against UltraTech Cement on deposit of 10 per ce...
HeidelbergCement merges HC Trading and Interbulk Trading
Following the acquisition of Italcementi by HeidelbergCement Group, HC Trading and Interbulk Trading have merged their operations into a new company with a total turnover of ro...
LafargeHolcim invests in new Colombia plant
Holcim Colombia has announced it will begin the construction of a new cement plant in Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The new plant will have a capacity of 0.5Mta and repre...
Fiji: Chinese clinker offloaded at Suva Port
Pacific Cement Ltd of Fiji is receiving a 22,000t shipment of imported Chinese clinker, according to Tomu Raturaga, boarding officer at Carpenters Shipping. The cargo is rep...
Ghana: authorities accuse Chinese ship of smuggling cement
Ghanaian customs officials have prevented a Chinese-registered vessel – the Guo Tou 106 – from offloading bagged cement at Tema port for which it had no import licence, the Chr...
Russia sees 9% fall in 3Q cement demand and output
Russia’s cement consumption and output noted a nine per cent fall in the third quarter of 2016 when compared with the same period a year ago. Volumes decreased to 18.39Mt and 1...
Cambodia: new plant proposal
A meeting between Chinese-owned Cambodia Capital Mineral Resources Co (CCMRC) and the Ministry of Mines and Energy saw Li Xiao Ming, CCMRC president, put forward the idea of bu...
Cemento Polpaico net profits quadruple YoY in 9M16
Chile’s Cemento Polpaico saw its revenues decrease by 1.14 per cent to CLP108,669.55m in January-September 2016 from CLP 108,927.811m. However, net profits during the first ...
Gaza residents oppose new cement plant
In October 2016 Sanad Construction Industries (SCI) announced the launch of the first phase of a project to build a cement plant in a vacant lot in the West Bank. This first ph...
Arabian Cement to start Rabigh grinding unit operations in 4Q17
Arabian Cement Co reported construction at its Rabigh grinding facility is ongoing. However, in a bourse filing the company said it expected commercial operations at the unit t...
Pakistan: increased coal prices concern APCMA
The All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) has voiced its concern regarding steep increases in coal prices, which in turn is impacting the cost of cement product...
India Cements profit up 62%
For the quarter ended 30 September 2016, India Cements Ltd (ICL) reported a 62 per cent increase in standalone net profit to INR624m (US$9.17m) compared to 38.5 in the same per...
GCC acquires multiple Cemex operations
GCC has announced the acquisition of multiple Cemex operations in the USA. The acquisition comprises a cement plant (Odessa, Texas), two cement terminals (El Paso and Amaril...
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