UK: cement plants in Olympic park?
Plans to construct four cement and concrete plants near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London have caused outrage among local residents. If the plans are to go through, mo...
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Nigeria: removal of cement tax incentive
The removal of pioneer status tax incentive for the cement industry has caused concerns for operators in the real sector, who feel the development will send the wrong signal to...
Bangladesh: Payra seaport ready to unload first cargo
Bangladesh's Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, is expected to inaugurate the first deep-sea port in Patuakhali, about 320km southwest of Dhaka, through a video conference tomorrow...
United States: Kosmos Cement plant suffers fatality
A person has died after a workplace accident at the Cemex-owned Kosmos Cement plant in Louisville, Kentucky, USA Associated Press reports that local police attributed the ac...
Sino-Uzbek JV brings Karakalpakstan plant online
Uzbek-Chinese joint venture, Titan Cement, recently brought its new plant in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, into operation. The total cost of the project exceeded US$25m and resul...
DR Congo: US$500m to relaunch Maiko cement plant
The Congolese government has freed US$250m to relaunch production at the former cement plant of Province-Orientale (CIPOR), Cimenterie de Maiko (CIMAIKO). To carry out the p...
India: Birla Corporation sees Q1 cement profits rise 441%
Birla Corporation has released its quarterly financial results for the three months to the end of June 2016. During this period, Birla’s profits from its cement operations rose...
Angola: foreign currency availability restricts Secil Lobito's output
The lack of foreign currency availability is impacting on Angolan cement producer, Secil Lobito. The company needs foreign currency to buy clinker for its Lobito works in south...
Nigeria: Lafarge Africa complains of inadequate gas supply
Management at Lafarge Africa’s plants at Ewekoro and Sagamu, Ogun State, have voiced their concerns over the inadequate gas supply to their operations. Production managers at t...
Jordan: Northern Cement 2Q16 profits drop
Northern Cement Company have reported a 7.6 per cent decline in profits to JOD3.79m (US$5.4m) for the second quarter of 2016, compared to profits on JOD4.1m seen in the same p...
India: Mangalam Cement conducts new milling trial
Mangalam Cement has undertaken a trial run of its new 0.75Mta grinding unit, located at Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. The new unit brings Mangalam’s capacity up to 4.0Mta.
McInnis Cement breaks ground on US cement terminal
McInnis Cement officially broke ground at the new cement company's first US terminal in the Port of Providence. The overall cost of the project is expected to reach US$22m when...
Pakistan: northern plants register strong July sales
Domestic cement sales in Pakistan rose 12.38 per cent YoY to 2.018Mt in July 2016 from 1.8Mt in July 2015 as large government-funded infrastructure projects pushed up demand, a...
India: Prism Cement returns to profit for 1QFY16-17
Prism Cement has announced its trading figures for the first quarter of the 2016-17 financial year, CNBC’s MoneyControl reports. In the three months to June the firm made a net...
Indonesia: Indocement cuts production by 1Mt
PT Indocement Tunggal TBK will cease operations at two production lines at its Citeureup plant due to the national cement excess, resulting in a 1Mta drop in output levels. ...
Central Congo cuts import tax by 50%
The provincial government of Central Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, has lowered import taxes for grey cement by 50 per cent from CDF3000 (US$3.15) to CDF1500 per 50kg bag...
India: UltraTech’s plan for Bokaro plant moves forward
UltraTech Cement’s project to build a new 1.5Mta plant at Bokaro in Jharkhand has moved a step closer to realisation after the district authorities gave it their support, the T...
Tokyo Cement Ube Industries deal
Tokyo Cement Group (Lanka) Plc has signed a deal on 1 August with Japanese company Ube Industries Ltd, for the import of raw materials and technical support to produce cement. ...
Vietnam: "Cement plants are damaging automotive trade"
Nguyen Van Thanh, deputy chair of Quang Ninh province, has instructed the provincial Department of Natural Resources and the Environment to examine the pollution level caused ...
Argentina's cement demand down 20.7%
In July Argentina's cement demand fell 20.7 per cent YoY from 1,069,622t in July 2015 to 847,684t and slipped 1.1 per cent from the 857,525t recorded in June, according to the ...
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