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Siwertell, part of Cargotec, has delivered two more of its 10 000 S road-mobile unloaders for cement unloading operations in Libya and Vietnam. The new trailer-based, diesel-po...
Vicat's turnover improved by 1.5 per cent in 2015 to EUR2458m, which translates into an underlying decline of 4.4 per cent on a like-for-like basis. Turnover in cement advan...
Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) has signed a share purchase agreement with Birla Corp to sell 100 per cent in Reliance Cement Company (RCCPL). The deal values cement business ...
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in November 2015 were about 7.3Mt, up by 12.4 per cent from the level in November 2014, acco...
Hrazdan Cement, located in Armenia’s central Kotayk province, is expected to increase output up to 200,000t, the country’s Minister of Economy Karen Chshmarityan, has said. Ch...
LafargeHolcim confirmed today that it is considering a divestment of its interest in Lafarge India with a cement capacity of around 11Mta. The divestment would require the appr...
Cement sales in the Philippines increased by a strong 14.4 per cent YoY in 2015 to 24.36Mt, according to figures by the Cement Manufacturers' Association of the Philippines (Ce...
CRH and India's Dalmia Cement are likely to submit separate bids next month for the cement business of Indian infrastructure builder Jaiprakash Associates, two sources with dir...
Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, is selling a stake in Swiss cement business LafargeHolcim Ltd valued at about CHF1.5bn (about US$1.5bn), Bloomberg reported late Wednesday, c...
Votorantim Cimentos will invest EUR1.7m in the Toral de los Vados cement plant of its Spanish subsidiary Cementos Cosmos. The investment will fund environmental improvements as...
Eeva Sipilä, Cargotec's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will leave Cargotec to take up the position of CFO at Metso Corporation. Eeva Sipilä will continue in her current positi...
Lafarge's Indian unit has scrapped an agreement to sell two of its cement units to Birla Corp, the latter said in an exchange filing. On Tuesday Birla Corp said in a notice...
CNBM has issued a profit warning, predicting that the net profit for 2015 will be 70 per cent down YoY, mainly attributable to the slowdown in cement demand growth and severe o...
As part of the restructuring following the merger LafargeHolcim will be closing down cement production at the Havre and La Couronne cement works in France. Havre will be con...
Shree Cements reported a 10 per cent rise in standalone net profit at INR10.286bn (US$0.151m) for the quarter ended 31 December 2015 compared to a profit of INR9.368bn a year e...
President of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov, has called on relevant government ministers to consider possibilities of increasing cement production in the country, the...
In November 2015 electric motor manufacturer Menzel Elektromotoren from Berlin ended a serious production interruption at a cement plant in Cambridge. After three days followin...
Huaxin Cement, LafargeHolcim’s subsidiary in China, has warned that it expects 2015 net profit to fall 90-95 per cent YoY due to weak domestic demand, intense competition and a...
LafargeHolcim’s current president, Wolfgang Reitzle, could be returning to Germany-based gas producer Linde to become head of the Supervisory Board after the mandatory two-year...
Suez Cement is aiming to convert Torah and Helwan plants to use coal and RDF in addition to the already-used HFO following the conversion of Kattameya and Suez plants in 2015. ...
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