US full-year shipments reach 91.5Mt
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico in 2015 totalled 91.5Mt, up 3.5 per cent compared to the previous year, latest data from the US Geologi...
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Pakistan 8MFY16 dispatches rise on higher domestic demand
Pakistan cement dispatches rose 17.49 per cent to 20.89Mt during the first eight months (July-February) of 2015-16 from 17.78Mt in the same period last year. However, exports...
New 1Mta line starts up at San Sebastian de los Reyes, Venezuela
Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, has inaugurated a new line at the San Sebastian de los Reyes cement plant, owned by Industria Venezolana de Cemento (Invecem). The new ...
Orascom wins greenfield contract in Algeria
Orascom Construction has been awarded the contract for a greenfield cement plant in Algeria. The new 6000tpd plant is for a private sector client and comprises infrastructure w...
Honduras: 5.2% YoY rise in cement price in December 2015
The price of a 42.5kg bag of cement increased to HNL183 (US$8.09) in December 2015, up 5.2 per cent from HNL174 in December 2014, according to the Honduran Chamber of Construct...
Song Lam 2 begins commercial operations, Vietnam
Hoang Phat Vissai Group said that its Song Lam 2 cement plant in the central province of Nghe An, Vietnam, has started commercial operation smoothly. Output from the plant inc...
Vietnam Jan-Feb sales up 6% YoY
Companies in Vietnam sold 9.44Mt of cement and clinker in the first two months of this year, rising six per cent from a year earlier and fulfilling 12.42 per cent of the whole-...
Ciments du Maroc sees rise in 2015 net profit
Ciments du Maroc, part of the Italcementi group, posted an 8.5 per cent rise in turnover to MAD3.73bn (US$376m) in 2015. Cement sales advanced 1.2 per cent while ready-mix conc...
Semen Indonesia eyes 4-5% first-half sales growth
Semen Indonesia expects cement sales to grow between 4-5 per cent in Jan-Jun, driven by the government's push for infrastructure projects, Bisnis Indonesia reported quoting Sup...
A TEC provides know-how for cement plant erection in Angola
A TEC Production & Services GmbH has been awarded the Engineering, Procurement & Construction Management (EPCM) contract to coordinate all aspects of the “Nova Cimangola 2” pro...
CRH announces non-executive board appointment
The Board of CRH plc announced the co-option to the board, with effect from 3 March 2016, of William J Teuber, Jr as a non-executive director. Mr Teuber (64), a US citizen, is...
ThaiGroup JSC signs South Africa export supply agreement
ThaiGroup JSC, formerly known as Xuan Thanh Group JSC, has signed deal with the UK-based Ores & Minerals UK Ltd to export cement to South Africa, local media said. Under the...
CRH full-year sales 25% ahead
CRH's turnover rose by 25 per cent in 2015 to EUR23,635m while the EBITDA advanced by 35.2 per cent to EUR22198m. The trading profit increased by 39.3 per cent to EUR1277m. The...
Colombia January cement consumption up 3%
In January 2016 Colombia’s cement market expanded by three per cent to 0.956Mt from 0.928Mt in the same month a year earlier, according to latest data from country’s statistics...
Jamaica: CCCL posts higher full-year earnings
Caribbean Cement Co Ltd (CCCL) posted JMD1.54bn (US$12.7m) in earnings for year ending December 2015, compared to the JMD139m a year earlier. The increase by the Jamaica-based...
Côte d'Ivoire: CIMAF inaugurates expansion project
Ciments de l’Afrique (CIMAF) on Tuesday inaugurated the completed expansion of its cement unit at Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire in the presence of the country’s Prime Minister, Dani...
Hope unveils state-of-the-art rail wagons, UK
Hope Construction Materials has unveiled 48 state-of-the-art rail wagons, developed in partnership with VTG Rail UK. The vehicles were officially launched at an event at the H...
Indonesia: Semen Baturaja reports double-digit sales growth
Semen Baturaja achieved a 20.66 per cent rise in cement sales last year to IDR1.46trn (US$109.32m), the Indonesian stated-owned cement company has said. The sales growth has ...
Dangote Cement full-year boosted by new African plants
Dangote Cement posted a 25.6 per cent rise in 2015 revenues to NGN491.7bn (US$2.47bn) as new plants performed strongly across Africa, the company reported yesterday. New prod...
Holcim Philippines net profit surges 58% YoY
Holcim Philippines Inc said Wednesday net profit in 2015 surged 58 per cent YoY to PHP8.1bn (US$171m) on strong sales and a large one-off gain on investment. The company said...
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