Nigeria: Dangote begins construction of Itori-Ibese road
Dangote has begun construction of a network of concrete roads in Nigeria, beginning with a 24km stretch linking Itori and Ibese in Ogun state, Leadership reports. Speaking a...
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India: Ambuja Cement to expand Rupnagar grinding plant
Ambuja Cement has announced that it plans to upgrade the capacity of its grinding plant in Rupnagar in Punjab by 0.9Mta, taking its output to 3.4Mta. The project, which is e...
Nigeria: Nigercem to begin production in Ebonyi
Nigercem will soon commence cement operations at the Nigeria Cement Company in Nkalagu, Ebonyi State. A deed was signed to settle terms between Nigercem and representatives ...
India: Talavadi Cement plans new plant
Talavadi Cements, a subsidiary of Birla Corporation, is planning an integrated cement plant at Bari village, district, Satna, Madhya Pradesh. The plant will manufacture 2Mta...
Cemex Holdings Philippines set for record IPO
Cemex Holdings Philippines Inc has obtained regulatory approval to launch an initial public offering (IPO) worth PHP39.74bn (US$854.3m), which could be the largest stock market...
Colombia's market expands 5.9% in April
Cement dispatches in Colombia rose 5.9 per cent to 1.05Mt in April 2015, according to the country’s statistics office, Dane. Cement production in April reached 1.1Mt, up fiv...
Sri Lanka: LafargeHolcim to exit market
LafargeHolcim is to sell its operations in Sri Lanka - a bagging plant, a grinding plant and the island's only integrated facility - as part of its wider divestment strategy, E...
Paraguay: INC faces increased Brazilian imports
Brazil’s current imports of around 400,000 bags of cement is damaging the Paraguayan cement industry, according to Jorge Méndez, CEO of Industria Nacional de Cemento (INC). Thi...
Sri Lanka: AFKO group may revive KKS plant
AFKO Group GMEX has expressed interest in reopening the Kankesanthurai (KKS) cement plant in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, according to the country’s Industry and Commerc...
Mongolia explores export to Russia
With Mongolia’s cement production on the rise, the country may start exporting its surplus to countries such as Russia. National producers are currently studying the possibilit...
Burkina Faso: CIMAF begins construction of second plant
Ciment d’Afrique (CIMAF), a subsidiary of Morocco’s Addoha Group, has begun the construction of its second cement plant in Burkina Faso, the North Africa Post reports. The g...
Pakistan cement industry's US$1bn expansion
The steady growth of Pakistan’s cement industry saw the sector attract investment of US$1bn in the current financial year, an economic survey has revealed. Economic Survey 2...
Malaysia: slow cement growth in 2016
Malaysia is proving to be a challenging market for Lafarge where it is reported to have seen profits fall by 72 per cent in 1Q16 to US$5m. While this has resulted partly from p...
Pakistan cement exports 5Mt in FY15-16
During first 10 months of the current FY15-16, the Pakistan cement industry exported 5.05Mt of cement and earned export revenue of US$274.34m compared to 6.64Mt at US$382.39m i...
Saudi Arabia: Hail Cement resumes production
Hail Cement Company has resumed production after a stoppage for scheduled maintenance. According to the company's statement on the Saudi Stock Exchange Tadawul,” the financi...
Cemex Dominicana to buy 11.5MW of wind power
The power company EGE Haina will sell wind energy to Cemex Dominicana, for its cement plant located in San Pedro (east), as a unregulated user of the National Interconnected El...
Pakistan: new federal budget to increase cement demand
Pakistan’s new federal budget, set to be announced in the next few weeks, looks set to provide a fillip for the country’s cement producers by boosting demand. Through the feder...
Cherat Packaging introduce polypropylene sacks
Cherat Packaging Pakistan and BSW Machinery have introduced 65g polypropylene sacks to hold 50kg of cement. This new sack technology offers a potential reduction in weight of 2...
Hong Kong: Allied cement proposes name change
Allied Cement aims to improve its core competitiveness and the Board believes that the proposed change of company name to Tongfang Kontafarma Holdings Ltd would better reflect ...
Ghana: new Dangote plant
Dangote Cement have announced plans to establish another cement plant in Takoradi, Ghana. The new grinding plant will have a capacity of 1.5Mta. The company has acquired 41 ...
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