Russia: new cement plant for Dagestan
Azerbaijani investors will build a 1.8Mta cement works, Dagestan Cement Plant, and a 30ha Trade and Logistics Centre between Makhachkala and Kaspiysk, according to Ramadan Abdu...
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Semen Indonesia to invest US$2.2bn over next five years
Semen Indonesia President Director, Rizkan Chandra, has announced that his company is to invest IDR30tn (US$2.2bn) over the next five years. The funding will be split between e...
Zimbabwe: Dangote investment
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has said he will not rescind on the decision to invest in Zimbabwe, despite negative reports concerning the country’s economy. Mr Dangote s...
Israel complaint over Egyptian circumvention of Gaza cement ban
The Israeli government has filed an official complaint with its counterpart in Cairo after Egypt permitted the import of cement into Gaza, reports the Middle East Monitor. N...
Bolivia: Yacuses expected to produce cement in December
Work on the 0.87Mta Yacuses cement plant, owned by Itacamba Cemento, in the Germán Busch province of Bolivia, 590km from Santa Cruz, has been completed by 70 per cent, accordin...
Cementos Argos reports 1Q16 EBITDA up 38%
Cementos Argos reports that 1Q16 volumes across all regional divisions represent healthy dynamics in all the markets where the company is present, especially in the US, where c...
Negative order intake of EUR1.1m for KHD in 1Q16
Order intake in the first quarter of 2016 was negative at EUR-1.1m. This is due to the low level of new business (EUR12.8m), order cancellations and reductions (EUR-9.1m) the c...
Zimbabwe: firms face closure
Due to an influx of cheap imported products in Zimbabwe, local cement producers have warned of a possible scaling down of operations and closures, saying protectionist measure...
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions set for 'planet' reorganisation
The Industrial Solutions business area, the engineering and construction arm of the thyssenkrupp Group, is being reorganised as part of the transformation programme “planets”. ...
Titan 1Q16 results boosted by US growth
Titan Group posted robust growth in sales and operating performance in 1Q16, primarily on the back of the US market, as well as the improved operation of the plants in Egypt. ...
India: Adilabad cement plant could reopen
A closed cement factory at Adilabad will be the discussion of a possible reopening as Union Heavy Industry Minister Anant Geete is set to hold a meeting with officials of the T...
Suez Cement hit by Egyptian pound devaluation
In its quarterly earnings statement for 1Q2016, Suez Cement announced that it has seen cement volumes rise 15.6 per cent YoY. However, net profits for the quarter have fallen t...
Tunisia: petcoke shortage risks near-doubling cement price
Tunisia’s Industry Ministry is looking into to alternatives to alleviate the petcoke shortage in the country. Importing petcoke is proving to be difficult as El Fouledh port, t...
Cement to light roads
Dr José Carlos Rubio, researcher at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexico, has found a creative solution to light streets and highways in the even...
New standard for alkali-activated cements
With the European market proving a barrier to Lucideon Ltd seeing its technology for alkali-activated cements entering the construction sector it has devised a new standard tha...
Quarterly results disappoint as LafargeHolcim struggles to consolidate
LafargeHolcim's results for the first quarter of 2016 have disappointed analysts as the company announced that EBITDA had fallen by 17 per cent on like-for-like terms compared ...
LafargeHolcim: cement volumes up 1.4% but revenues flat
In its results for 1Q16, LafargeHolcim announced that cement volume sales rose by 1.4 per cent YoY with the Asia-Pacific region accounting for most of the improvement. Like-for...
Austrian cement demand up 4% in 2015
The Austrian cement market expanded by four per cent to 4.6Mt in 2015 and generated a turnover of EUR388m. Exports rose 15 per cent to 446,000t while imports fell 11 per cent t...
Cementir's 1Q16 revenue falls 1.1% to EUR218.9m
Cementir has announced that its results for the 1Q16, despite being lower than the previous year, are in line with management expectations and show a strong performance of oper...
North America: fires at plant and quarry
On Tuesday fires broke out at both the Cemex Balcones Quarry, Texas, USA, and the Lehigh Hanson Materials cement plant in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Sara Bouffard, Cemex direc...
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