Canada cement production down 12.2% MoM
Cement manufacturers in Canada produced 1.11Mt of cement products in November, down 12.2 per cent from October, according to the country's national statistical agency. Data fr...
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Uzbekistan: Akhangarancement sees rise in full-year rise in output and shipments
Uzbekistan-based A khangarancement JSC produced 1.771Mt of cement in 2015, representing a 4.1 per cent YoY rise, parent company Eurocement Group said. Clinker production t...
HeidelbergCement issues EUR625m of debt certificates
HeidelbergCement has successfully issued debt certificates in the amount of EUR625m, thereby further strengthening its financing structure. Due to high demand, it was possible ...
Vietnam sales up three per cent in 2015
Companies in Vietnam sold 72.71Mt of cement and clinker in 2015, rising three per cent from a year earlier and exceeding the whole-year target by one per cent, the country's Mi...
FCT Combustion wins Ecuador order
FCT Combustion announced that HORMICRETO, Cuenca, Ecuador, has placed an order for two calciner burners and a hot gas generator for its swing mill application, for alternative ...
China: BBMG Corp expects lower profit on weaker cement demand and pricing
China-based BBMG Corp said it expects to record a 10-22 per cent decrease in net profit attributable to shareholders for the year ended 31 December 2015 compared to a year earl...
Cemex contributes to main trade route between Mexico and the USA
Cemex announced that Cemex Mexico contributed to the restoration of the Monterrey-Nuevo Laredo highway, the main export-import route between Mexico and the US. Located in nor...
First vessel arrives at Zuari terminal, India
The first vessel carrying a consignment of 7,612t of cement arrived at Zuari Cement’s new bagging terminal at Cochin Port, Kerala, on Tuesday. Cochin Port Trust Chairman Paul ...
Anglo American completes exit from Tarmac
Anglo American plc announces that it has completed the sale of its interests in the operating joint venture entities which have historically operated under the Tarmac name in t...
Bestway boosted by Pakcem contribution
Bestway Group of the UK, parent company of Pakistan's largest cement producer, announced that its consolidated turnover for the year ending 30 June 2015 increased by 20 per cen...
BLA releases fifth sustainable development report
The British Lime Association (BLA) has released its fifth sustainable development report which presents the industry's progress in 2014. The report features case studies from...
Brazil sees full-year fall in sales
Brazilian cement sales in 2015 declined by 9.2 per cent YoY to 64.4Mt, preliminary data and market estimates published by Sindicato Nacional da Indústria do Cimento (SNIC) reve...
Algeria: GICA breaks production record in 2015
Groups industrial des cements d’Algérie (GICA) broke its production record in 2015 when it manufactured 12,143,557t of cement, up five per cent when compared with its output of...
China Resources warns of significant decrease in full-year attributable profit
China Resources Cement said it expects profit attributable to the owners for the year ended 31 December 2015 to significantly decrease as compared with that of the previous yea...
Steppe Cement Ltd preliminary update to 31 December 2015
Steppe Cement Ltd recorded revenue for the year ended 31 December 2015 of KZT19,537m (US$54m), which was seven per cent lower than the KZT20,925m recorded in the corresponding ...
China Shanshui to buy back two outstanding senior notes due 2016, 2020
China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd said Thursday it offered to buy back the outstanding amount of two senior notes valued at US$528.9m from investors. The Hong Kong-listed cemen...
Kenya: UltraTech in the race to buy stake in ARM?
UltraTech Cement is said to be eyeing a controlling stake in ARM Cement of Kenya, a Nairobi-based newspaper reported. According to the report, the Indian cement producer Ultr...
Groundbreaking for MBT resource recovery facility, USA
Entsorga West Virginia announced the groundbreaking of the US’s first resource recovery facility utilising Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT). The state-of-the-art waste-to-...
Indonesia cement sales rise 1.8 per cent in 2015
Cement sales in Indonesia rose by 1.8 per cent to 61Mt in 2015 thanks to the latest surge of government infrastructure projects in the latter half of the year, thet Indonesia C...
Fitch upgrades Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua's ratings to 'BB'; outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings has upgraded Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) local and foreign currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to 'BB' from 'BB-'. Fitch also upgraded GCC's US$260m seni...
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