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Egypt: CDI wins EUR1bn worth of orders
Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry Co Ltd, a Sinoma company, has signed a EUR1.053bn turnkey contract for the design, supply, construction and ...
LafargeHolcim plans further asset sales
It has been revealed that LafargeHolcim is under pressure to find further synergies for the newly-formed cement major. LafargeHolcim was created by a EUR41bn merger last year b...
Venezuela: output at 16% of year forecast
Venezuelan cement producers have manufactured around 112,000t of cement in May, according to El Mundo or some 16 per cent of the forecast year total. Industria Venezolana d...
Semen Indonesia to sell 49% stake in unit
Indonesia's largest cement producer, Semen Indonesia, plans to sell a 49 per cent stake in one of its units to help fund the company's future expansion, according to Investor D...
Bangladesh: MI Cement opts for Loesche slag grinding mill
MI Cement Factory Ltd, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has awarded Loesche the contract for the Munshigonj cement plant. The Munshigonj cement plant is a brownfield project. To ...
USA: union workers reject contract
According to union representatives, union workers at a northern Nevada cement plant have rejected a contract proposal from the Nevada Cement. The previous contract expired 2...
USA: 100 years for Stockertown plant
Buzzi Unicem USA is celebrating the 100 year anniversary of its Stockertown Plant this year. The plant was originally built in 1906, but did not become operational until 191...
Pakistan: Fauji Cement begins silo repair
The repair of damaged raw meal silo and the coal mill area of Line 2 (which has a production capacity of 2.38Mt), of Fauji Cement Ltd’s (FCCL), would take 3-6 months at cost o...
Argentine cement demand notes 16.5% rise in May
Dispatches from Argentina’s cement plants rose by 16.5 per cent in May 2016 after a six consecutive months of decreases. Around 881,000t of cement were delivered to the domesti...
USA: Exshaw modernisation produces first clinker
The Lafarge plant at Exshaw celebrated a key accomplishment as groundwork continues for the next chapter in the cement plant's 100-plus-year history. The Exshaw expansion is c...
SNIC president forecasts cement volumes to fall 16%
Jose Otavio Carneiro de Carvalho, president of Brazil's cement industry association SNIC, estimates the domestic market to decrease 12 per cent in 2016, while showing 61Mt over...
Bolivia: Fancesa seek new transport solution
Fancesa will study a project for its own road transport company put forward by the Chuquisaca government. The firm is in the middle of a dispute with local unionised truck dri...
Indian producers line up for LafargeHolcim's Sri Lankan operations
A shortlist of potential buyers in the sale of LafargeHolcim's Sri Lankan operations have been named as Dalmia Bharat, Shree Cements along with Ramco after an initial round of ...
Delivery of Nb. 435 for JT Cement
Ferus Smit has delivered the Nb. 435 (MV Ireland) to new owners JT Cement, a joint venture between Erik Thun AB and KG Jebsen Cement. The vessel was delivered after an extensiv...
Kenya: Savannah Cement, Kenyatta University collaboration
Kenyan cement producer Savannah Cement has signed an agreement with Kenyatta University to collaborate in areas such as innovation, student internships, joint research activiti...
Fabrizio Donegá new CEO of Cementos Moctezuma
Fabrizio Donegá has been appointed as new CEO of Cementos Montezuma following the retirement of Pedro Carranza Andersen after 21 years of service with the company. The appoin...
Pakistan: producers eye northern construction growth
This week saw further evidence of resurgent growth in Pakistan’s cement industry as dispatches rose 10.6 per cent YoY. With the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (A...
Nigeria: producers hit by falling prices now face naira devaluation
The devaluation of the naira – agreed in principle by the Central Bank of Nigeria in May – will hit Nigerian producers’ revenues, Bernstein warns. The decision to revalue marks...
Italy: Cementir receives court approval for Sacci Spa purchase
The Court of Rome has published the decree of approval of the composition with creditors of Sacci Spa, which includes the offer to purchase its business divisions submitted by ...
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