Australia: Adelaide Brighton sees power bill rise by US$2.2m
The price spike in July added around AUD3m (US$2.26m) to Adelaide Brighton's power bill, mainly attributed to operations at its Birkenhead plant. This surge in costs led the co...
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LafargeHolcim Martres-Tolosane plant installs whole-tyre injection system
LafargeHolcim has installed a whole-tyre injection system at its plant at Martres-Tolosane, near Toulouse, France. The equipment will enable the cement manufacturer to use a...
India: My Home Industries set for 10Mta capcity
With its 1.5Mta Tuticorin plant, Tamil Nadu, expected to be commissioned in January 2017, My Home Industries is set to see its production capacity increase to 10Mta. Speakin...
Holcim Philippines appoints COO
Holcim Philippines announced Thursday that its board has appointed Sapna Sood as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective 1 November 2016. Ms Sood previously acted as Group Hea...
Colombia: consumption falls 20% YoY in July
Colombia saw its cement market contract by 19.7 per cent YoY in July to 924,900t, according to the latest figures by Dane, the country’s statistics office. A round 68.2 per ...
Dangote exports Ethiopian cement to Kenya
Kenya's cement market is now being supplied with cement from a new source as Dangote has started exports from its 2.5Mta Ethiopian plant to the east African country. Industr...
Vietnam: cement output up 15.2% YoY
Vietnam is estimated to have produced 50.6Mt of cement in the first eight months of 2016, a 15.2 per cent increase from the same period last year, according the the government-...
Sweden: Swerock to acquire HeidelbergCement operations in Western Götaland
Swerock AB has signed a deal with HeidelbergCement Northern Europe to acquire the latter’s gravel and rock operations. The two companies have signed a letter of intent and are ...
Nigeria: cement prices in Lagos rise by over a third
The price of bagged cement in Lagos has risen sharply overnight, according to reports in The Nation. A 50kg bag now retails for between NGN2200 and NGN2300 (US$7-7.30), a rise ...
LSR sees 10% rise in 1H16 sales but 22% drop in EBITDA
Russia’s LSR Group reported a 10 per cent increase in sales in 1H16 to RUB31.618bn. However, EBITDA fell by 22 per cent to RUB4.486bn and the company’s EBITDA margin stood at 1...
Lafarge Iraq signs transportation deal
Lafarge Iraq have signed an agreement with Iraq’s General Company for Land Transportation (GCLT), which is owned by Iraq’s Ministry for Transport, for the transportation of its...
Indonesian cement exports expected to grow 50%
Indonesia's cement and clinker exports are forecast to reach 1.5Mt in 2016, a 50 per cent increase when compared with the export volume of the previous year. In the seven mo...
Northern India prices rebound as demand strengthens
Cement prices in northern India have risen by around 25 per cent YoY in the period April-July 2016, driven by rising demand, according to the Economic Times. This performanc...
Schade Lagertechnik secures order in Uzbekistan
Kyzulkumzement in Uzbekistan awarded Schade, part of the Aumund Group, the contract to supply two bridge-type reclaimers and a stacker to its plant. The two reclaimers, each...
Cemex re-organises its Cementos Chihuahua investments
Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua’s ownership is being restructured, with Cemex taking a 23 per cent direct stake as well as a minority interest in Camcem, which will be the majority...
Indonesia: Chinese plant begins production in West Papua
A new cement plant funded by China’s State Development and Investment Corporation (SDIC) has begun operations in the Indonesian state of West Papua, China Daily reports. The...
China: Socam to sell part of its stake in Nanjing Jiangnan Cement
Socam Development is to sell a 35 per cent stake in Nanjing Jiangnan Cement to property developer Country Garden for CNY147.6m (US$22m), Etnet reports. Socam Development wil...
Caribbean Cement orders reclaimer
Caribbean Cement has ordered a new 700tph full-portal reclaimer for limestone with a railspan of 42m for its Rockfort plant in Jamaica. The order follows a long-standing pro...
Egypt: Sinai Cement returns to profit
Sinai Cement has announced that it earned a net profit of EGP15.4m (US$1.7m) for the first half of 2016, reversing the EGP28.7m losses that it recorded in the same period last ...
Philippines: 1H16 sales rise 10.7%
Philippine cement manufacturers reported a 10.7 per cent increase in sales to 13.2Mt for the first six months of the year. This increase has been supported by government rises ...
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