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HeidelbergCement Caucasus (HCC) announced it will renovate and develop its cement plant in Kaspi in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia in the next two years. Preparation works ...
FLSmidth reported a 19 per cent increase in order intake for 1Q16 to DKK5.281bn (US$797m), mainly due to the receipt of a large order in a quarter which is usually quiet. Reve...
Oman’s Raysut Cement Co recently launched a new multi-chamber silo at its site in Salalah. The new silo will be able to store 20,000t and is considered one of the largest cemen...
The Iraqi government has passed a bill banning the imports of Iranian cement to protect its domestic cement industry. Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, the deputy head of the Association ...
The Jakarta Post reports that the joint-venture between Conch and SDIC Papua Cement Indonesia will commence operations at its new plant in Manokwari, West Papua, in July. Th...
JK Lakshmi Cement’s net profit soared in the quarter ended 31 March 2016 from INR60.5m (US$ 0.90m) to INR483.8m YoY. Total 4Q revenues of the company jumped 27 per cent from I...
Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) will pay a dividend to shareholders in July. This ends an eight-year period in which shareholders received no returns from the stock. Trinidad Cement ...
The 58th IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference started its first full day of tutorial presentations on Tuesday at the Gaylord Texas Resort Centre, Grapevine, USA. T...
The outlook for the Pakistan cement industry is positive with expansion expected over the next few years. Key reasons include improved sector fundamentals backed by higher dema...
Cement sales in Indonesia reached 19.3Mt in the four months from January to April 2016, reports Indonesia Investments. This represents a 4.2 per cent increase on the same perio...
The much-anticipated lifting of Saudi Arabia's ban on cement exports, first implemented in 2008 and extended in 2012, is expected to provide little relief for the country's cem...
Lafarge North America has put an end to expansion plans at the Joppa Cement Plant, Massac County, Illinois. A spokeswoman for Lafarge, Robin De Carlo, said that the cancellatio...
Peru’s cement demand increased 1.8 per cent YoY in April to 781,000t, according to the country’s cement association, Asocem. This reversed the previous month’s fall of 1.4 per ...
The Armenian government has been successful in pushing through a bill exempting Hrazdan cement plant from fines, accumulated by its failure to pay taxes and other mandatory pay...
Tanga Cement has said that it will concentrate on cutting costs in an effort to counteract falling revenues, the Citizen reports. The company, whose profit fell to TZS8.24bn...
Sales figures for the Angolan cement market are in decline. The market is down 35 per cent YoY in 2016. With sales figures for 2014 and 2015 being 5.9Mt and 5.2Mt, respectively...
Magnesita Refratários SA announced a net income of US$22.7m between January and March of 2016. The publicly-traded Brazilian Corporation focusses on mining and the production a...
Semen Indonesia's Board has elected Rizkan Chandra as new President Director at its Annual General Director. The current term of his appointment runs until 2020. Mr Chandra ...
Arawak Cement Co Ltd of St Lucy, Barbados, announced a turnaround in its finances in 2015. While it did not release any hard data, it described 2015 as a “very encouraging” yea...
Sales for Sino Zimbabwe Cement Company (SZCC) have declined by 15 per cent in the first quarter, in comparison with the same period last year. A further decline in sales this q...
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