Nigeria: Ashaka building power plant
Management of Ashaka Cement Plc has concluded plans to build its own power plant due to concerns over an inadequate supply of electricity to power its operations. Alhaji Sule...
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Japan: companies turn to recycling
Japan’s cement makers are turning to resource recycling as alternative revenue sources as demand for cement is seen shrinking over the mid- to long term. Japanese demand for ce...
FLSmidth and GE to make cloud data platform
FLSmidth and GE will create digital solutions together to increase productivity in the cement and minerals industries. The new solutions developed on GE's cloud-based Predix pl...
Belgium: cement consumption up 4.6% in 2015
Belgian cement demand increased 4.6 per cent YoY to 6,403,460t, according to Febelcem, the country's cement association. The rise was supported by good weather and a positive ...
China: Asia Cement and CNBM halt Shanshui offer
Following nine months of consideration, Asia Cement and CNBM have said they will not proceed with plans to buy the shares they do not already own in Shanshui Cement. In a st...
Spain: Cementos Portland restructures debt
The refinancing of the EUR825m syndicated loan of cement producer Portland Valderrivas, a Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC) company, has been completed, reports Spaco...
Indonesia: Indocement hopes for strong consumption growth
Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa President Director, Christian Kartawijaya, has predicted that cement consumption in Indonesia could grow by 3-5 per cent in 2016, having grown by 3....
Pakistan: 13% YoY surge in cement sales boosts producers' profits
Pakistan's cement industry's profit rose 30 per cent to PKR45.169bn (US$431.6m) in the first nine months of the current fiscal year as there was a surge in sales, supported by ...
Iran: cement exports down 20%
Iranian cement and clinker exports have fallen by 20 per cent over the past Iranian year (1394), an official said on Tuesday. The secretary of the Association of Cement Indu...
Dem Rep Congo: import tax under consideration
Following the announcement of Cimenterie de Lukala (Cilu) earlier this week that it plans to close due to “unfair competition”, the governor of Kongo-Central, Jacques Mbadu Nsi...
Sri Lanka: Holcim Lanka inaugurates new transport model
LafargeHolcim subsidiary Holcim Lanka has begun operations of a new ship-to-rail road hybrid model for the transportation of its raw materials. The state railway will transp...
PT Semen Padang issued new forest mining licence
PT Semen Padang has been granted land use of a forest area covering an area of 243.3ha in Indonesia. In accordance with IPPKH and Permit Mining limestone (IUP 412ha) owned sinc...
Industry guidelines launched for dust-free paper sacks
The European Sack Group, a collaboration between CEPI Eurokraft and EUROSAC, have published the first Industry Guidelines for dust-free paper sacks online. The document provide...
India: ECO Cement to produce for Prism Cement
Cogencis EquityWire reports that ECO Cement (ECL) and Prism Cement have reached an agreement whereby the former will manufacture and supply cement to the latter. "The arrang...
LafargeHolcim launch 2030 sustainability programme
LafargeHolcim has announced a new group sustainability strategy called "The 2030 Plan" which sets ambitious long-term goals to help the company lead in sustainability and set n...
Argentina: cement sales fall by over a quarter
Argentina’s cement market contracted 27.6 per cent YoY in April 2016, according to the latest data from Asociación de Fábricas de Cemento Portland (AFCP). Total cement sales, i...
India: Sagar Cements ordered to stop mining in Sulthanpur forest
Sagar Cements have been ordered by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to cease mining activity in Sulthanpur forest in Telangana following a complaint that the company was encro...
Ireland: Irish Cement challenging compulsory land purchase
A High Court challenge has been set in motion by Irish Cement, opposing an order allowing the compulsory purchase of its Co Limerick lands to expand the harbour facilities at F...
North America: Lehigh Hanson and Essroc closer to integration
Integration of Lehigh Hanson and Essroc Cement is one step closer, with a scheduled mid-summer closing, as reported by Aggregate Research. With the merger of HeidelbergCement ...
India: Dalmia removes barrier to Lafarge-Holcim merger
An application for withdrawal made by Dalmia Cement Ltd has been accepted by The Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT). Dalmia Cement had previously challenged an approval gi...
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