Saudi Arabia: sales drop 10%
According to a report quoting Yamama Cement data, total cement sales in Saudi Arabia stood at 4.34Mt for the month of August, registering a 10.3 per cent decrease YoY. However,...
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Palestinian Investment Fund new plant project
The Palestinian Investment Fund (PIF) launched the first phase of its cement plant project this weekend. The PIF's cement plant will be the first in the Palestinian areas. C...
Pakistan: Dewan Cement earns profits of US$14.25m
Dewan Cement Ltd informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) that it earned a profit after tax of PKR1.49bn (US$14.25m) in FY16 ending on 30 June 2016 compared to PKR709.66m in cor...
Zimbabwe: PPC threaten shutdown over cheap cement imports
Darryl Castle, PPC chief executive, has told the Zimbabwean government to curb imports of cement, or his company will close its mining operations in the country and import fini...
Pakistan: dispatches expected to reach 3Mt in September
Total cement dispatches for Pakistan are expected to remain flat at around 3Mt for September 2016 in comparison to September 2015. In a research report, Topline Securities fore...
Vietnam exports to Bangladesh rise
Cement and clinker exports from Vietnam to Bangladesh market in the first eight months of 2016 reached US$94.20m worth, accounting for 26 per cent of total export value. Ceme...
Saudi Arabia: Tabuk Cement delays opening of second clinker line
Tabuk Cement's second clinker production line will not now begin commercial operations until the second quarter of 2017, the company said in a statement to the Saudi stock mark...
Scwhenk invests EUR30m in Allmendingen works
German cement producer Schwenk is investing EUR30m in its Allmendingen cement plant to reduce NOx and organic carbon emissions as well as mercury. The XMercury equipment, de...
Lafarge Zimbabwe losses increase to US$2.2m
Lafarge Zimbabwe has announced a 1H16 loss of US$2.2m, an increase from the 1H15 US$1.3m loss, the Insider reports. Competition from cheap imported cement and rising output ...
Pakistan: Fecto Cement profit jumps 31.8% in FY15-16
Fecto Cement Ltd its financial results for the full-year period ended 30 June 2016. It reported profit after tax of PKR813.82m (US$7.78m) compared to PKR17.47m earned in corre...
Nepal: permits suspended for sub-standard product
The Nepali Department of Standards and Metrology has suspended the permits issued to Bageshwori Cement and Jaya Mangalam Cement Industries, preventing both companies from distr...
United States: St Mary's Cement secures funding to expand North Michigan plant
St Mary's Cement, a subsidiary of Brazil's Votorantim Cimentos, has had its application for funding to expand its Charlevoix plant in north Michigan approved by the Michigan St...
Philippines: Eagle Cement to break ground on Davao plant
Eagle Cement has said that it will begin construction work on its new 2Mta cement plant in Davao in the south of the country on 20 October, according to reports in the Business...
Semen Indonesia: unsuccessful Holcim (Lanka) bid will not deter from ASEAN expansion
PT Semen Indonesia (Persero) Tbk's director, Rizkan Chandra, has claimed that Siam City's bid for Holcim (Lanka) Ltd was "an outrageous price". Siam City Cement won 99 per c...
Mexico: Elementia considers price rise to help fund investment plan
Elementia is considering a potential rise in its cement price following the depreciation of the Mexican peso against the US dollar, according to the El Financiero newspaper. ...
Germany: professor Siegbert Sprung wins fifth Klaus Dyckerhoff Prize
At the VDZ Annual Cement Conference 2016 in Düsseldorf, Germany, the fifth Klaus Dyckerhoff Prize was awarded to Professor Dr-Ing Siegbert Sprung for his exceptional achievemen...
India: production halts at JK Cement Muddapur plant
JK Cement have announced that its 3Mta plant in Muddapur, Baglakot, India, has temporarily ceased operations. The clinker silo roof unexpectedly caved in, causing steel structu...
Indonesia: cement carrier catches on fire
A cement carrier called Divine Success caught fire last Friday while at dock in Port of Tanjung Priok, north Jakarta, Indonesia. After several hours the fire on board of th...
China Cement Association urges consolidation
The China Cement Association has petitioned policymakers to speed up consolidation in the cement sector, which currently has 3500 producers. The consolidation aims to concentra...
Azerbaijan: Akkord Concrete and Gazakh Cement merge
The Akkord Industry Construction Investment Corporation OJSC has merged two of its businesses. The Akkord Concrete LLC and Gazakh Cement plant LLC have been merged, according...
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