Argentina reports upturn in cement demand in August
Cement dispatches in Argentina increased by 6.7 per cent YoY in August, according to preliminary figures published by the Argentine cement association, AFCP. The domestic marke...
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US cement shipments for June reach 9.2Mt
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in June 2016 were about 9.2Mt, up by 2.7 per cent from sales in June 2015, reports the US Ge...
Ethiopia: Dangote plant attracted with cheap power deal
Dangote’s decision to establish a 2.5Mta cement plant in Ethiopia was motivated by a government guarantee of cheap electricity, Muhammadu Sanusi, the Emir of Kano, has claimed ...
Bangladesh: BCIC plans new Chhatak mill as cement demand rises
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corp (BCIC), a unit of Bangladesh Ministry of Industries, is implementing a new cement mill project as the company converts its wet-process l...
Pakistan’s cement production to grow by 10.12% in FY16
Pakistan’s cement industry produced 35.44Mt of cement during July 2015-June 2016 compared to 32.18Mt of cement in corresponding period in the previous rolling year. This trans...
India: Sagar Cements sales down 13.7% for 1HFY16-17
Sagar Cements has released its sales and production figures for the period to August 2016, reports Accord Fintech. These show that sales at the company fell by 13.73 per cen...
SDIC new projects in Indonesia
State Development & Investment Corp (SDIC), China’s largest State-owned investment holding company by fund volume, has plans to expand its investment portfolio over the next fi...
Pakistan: cement sales climb to 4.9Mt
For the first two months of the current fiscal year (July-August 2016) Pakistan's total cement dispatches increased 14 per cent to 4.9Mt when compared to the 4.3Mt recorded in ...
Banco Santander: positive outlook for Mexican cement companies
Banco Santander analysts have upgraded their forecast on share prices of two key Mexican cement producers. The bank expects the company’s share price to rise 8.5 per cent in th...
Vietnam: Xuan Thanh Cement orders Loesche mills
Loesche has won an order to supply two cement mills for a new line at Xuan Thanh Cement’s plant in Hà Nam in northern Vietnam. Xuan Thanh announced in March 2014 that it had...
Consolidated Gold Holdings enters JV to acquire plant
Consolidated Gold Holdings announced it has entered into a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture with a major Asian industrial and mining group to supply and distribute...
Hong Kong: TCC International increases its shareholding in TCC
TCC International Holdings Ltd (TCCI) declared that Chia Hsin Pacific Ltd under Chia Hsin Cement Corporation plans to sell off 3030m common shares in TCC to TCC International L...
Environmental award for Lucky Cement
Pakistan's Lucky Cement Ltd has been awarded the 13th Annual Environmental Excellence Award 2016, presented at the ‘Making Our Cities Sustainable’ conference organised by the N...
Côte d'Ivoire: name change for Socimat
La Société ivoirienne de ciments et matériaux (Socimat) is changing its name to LafargeHolcim Côte d’Ivoire. “Resolutely committed to continuous satisfaction of its customers...
Fabrizio Pedetto appointed new Colacem general director
Fabrizio Pedetto has been appointed as the new general director for Colacem with responsibility for the Italian, Albanian and Spain markets.
Ecocem invests EUR30m in new JV plant
Ireland’s Ecocem has invested EUR30m into a new production plant in the north of France as part of a joint venture with ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel company. The...
IENova to buy Ventika wind farm
Infraestructura Energétia Nova (IENova) signed an agreement on Monday with the Blackstone Energy Group to buy Ventika I and II wind parks, which are operated by Cemex. The a...
PPC increase revenue and volumes in 3QFY15-16
PPC reported a nine per cent YoY rise in quarterly sales revenue, commenting that sales revenue in South Africa increased two per cent and volumes by at least nine per cent in ...
Russia: Mordovcement to invest 1.2bn
Head of Eurocement Group, Mikhail Skorokhod, announced that Mordovcement has plans to invest RUB1.2bn (US$18.5m) over the next 18 months in development projects. RUB250m will b...
Ghana: limited 0.3% volume growth in 1Q16
Higher levels of infrastructure investment in the coming months should help Ghana’s construction industry rally after a slow start to 2016, although rising costs risk squeezing...
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