Spain: demand up 5.3% in 2015
Cement consumption in Spain has increased by 5.3 per cent to 11,408,287t in 2015, according to Oficemen, the country's cement association. Variability in the second half of the...
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Egypt issues licences for new cement factories in Upper Egypt
Egypt's Ministry of Trade and Industry has issued new 14 licences for cement factories in Upper Egypt governorates, Minister Tarek Qabil announced Wednesday. According to the ...
Algeria: PM lays foundation stone for new plant
Prime Minister of Algeria, Abdelmalek Sellal, on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the project of a cement plant in the commune of El-Beidha, 170km north of Laghouat. T...
JK Cement halts production from Bagalkot unit, India
JK Cement Works, in Bagalkot in Karnataka, has stopped production due to the damage caused by the roof of the clinker silo suddenly caving in, the company told the exchanges ye...
Cemex announces retirement of Vice President of Energy
Cemex has announced that its current Vice President of Energy, Luis R Faris Martinez will retire from office. He will leave the company with effect from 1 February 2016, said t...
UK: new figures on coal ash show uptake continues to climb
UKQAA (UK Quality Ash Association) – the representative organisation for the producers and users of coal ash in the UK – has released statistics on the production and uses of c...
Jordan cement demand at 4Mta in 2015
Jordan’s consumption of cement declined to 4Mt in 2015, down by 300,000t from a year earlier due to weaker construction activities and government projects, the head of the Futu...
SFIC: French cement sector to stabilise in 2016
France's cement sector in 2016 is showing "some signs of optimism" and pointing therefore to a stabilisation of the markets after eight years of decline thanks to a pick-up in ...
PPC chairman to step down, South Africa
PPC announced that Bheki Lindinkosi Sibiya, who has served as chairman of Board since November 2008, elected not to offer himself for re-election at the shareholders AGM on ...
LH confirms Sberbank shareholding
LafargeHolcim Ltd said in a statement yesterday that it was informed on 25 January 2016 by Sberbank of Russia that it holds, through a repurchase transaction with Eurocement Ho...
Siam Cement posts 29% rise in 4Q net profit
Siam Cement Plc posted a 29 per cent increase in fourth-quarter net profit as better earnings from its chemical unit outweighed weakness in cement and the building materials bu...
Efforts to revive CCI unit underway, India
The state government of Hyderabad on Monday appointed a consultancy firm to prepare a draft DPR (Detailed Project Report) in an effort to revive the Cement Corporation of India...
South Africa: domestic cementitious volumes up 7.8% YoY
Domestic cementitious volumes in South Africa increased by 7.8 per cent YoY to 3.6523Mt in the third quarter of 2015, according to an update posted on PPC’s website. Total year...
Jaiprakash reportedly receives four bids for cement business
Jaypee group-promoted Jaiprakash Associates has received four bids for the 20Mta of cement capacity that it has put up for sale to reduce its debt burden. A report in the Bus...
PPC reports 3% decline in first-quarter sales
South African cement producer PPC reported a three per cent sales decline in its trading update for the October-December 2015 quarter, citing weak demand and tough competition....
Addoha reportedly to sell 30% African stake to HeidelbergCement
It has been reported that the Moroccan Addoha Group will sell 30 per cent of its African assets to HeidelbergCement, according to local news sources. The value of the transacti...
PCA Regional Forecast: coasts to see strongest cement consumption growth
PCA's recently released Winter 2015-16 State Forecast maintains expectations for the strongest rates of cement consumption growth to occur in the West with YoY growth of six pe...
Sumitomo Osaka 9M operating profit seen rising 11%
Japanese cement producer Sumitomo Osaka Cement likely will report an 11 per cent rise in operating profit of around JPY17bn (US$142m) for the nine months ended in December, as ...
Eagle Materials President and CEO to retire
Eagle Materials announced yesterday that the company's President and CEO, Steve Rowley (62) has decided to retire as an officer and director of the company effective the end of...
CMA publishes final cement price announcement order
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published its final order prohibiting cement suppliers in Great Britain from sending generic price announcement letters to their...
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