PCA: Congress completes work on multi-year Highway Bill
The PCA announced that the US Senate last night passed a final surface transportation reauthorisation bill that provides more than US$280bn to maintain and improve the nation's...
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China Shanshui begins legal proceedings against two former directors
China Shanshui Cement Group said after trading hours Thursday that it has begun legal proceedings against former directors Zhang Caikui and Zhang Bin for alleged unlawful condu...
Reliance may get final bids for cement unit by year-end, India
Reliance Infrastructure is expected to get final bids from the shortlisted bidders for the sale of its cement business by 24 December 2015, according to sources close to the sa...
Industry action on climate change
World leaders gathered in Paris this week for critical talks on global warming at the UN COP21 climate change summit which, if a decisive agreement is reached, could drive clim...
Moody's: Stronger demand in US, UK and Egypt supports EMEA building materials stable outlook
The outlook for the European building materials industry will remain stable in 2016 due to increasing cement demand in the US, UK and Egypt and the resulting uptick in pricing,...
Egypt: Arabian Cement Co reports rise in 9M15 volumes but lower prices
Arabian Cement Co (ACC) of Egypt reported a four per cent decline in revenues to EGP1711m (US$219m) for the first nine months of 2015, due to a 12 per cent decline in prices wh...
CEMBUREAU welcomes positive steps forward in circular economy package
CEMBUREAU has said it welcomes the circular economy package published by the European Commission yesterday. The European cement association said the regional industry, which...
Cementos Argos names new CEO
The Board of Directors of Cementos Argos has unanimously appointed Juan Esteban Calle as the new CEO of the company, effective 1 April 2016, replacing Jorge Mario Velasquez, wh...
Pakistan cement exports up on MoM basis
Pakistan exports increased by 6.6 per cent in October on a month-on-month (MoM) basis to 534,889t on revenues of US$29.72m (+5.66 per cent MoM), according to the country's Fede...
Qatar: Al Khalij Cement Co adds new line
Qatar-based producer Al Khalij Cement Co has added another production line to take the total cement capacity to 15,500tpd. The second “identical” production line will double t...
LafargeHolcim CMD: confident message from management
LafargeHolcim hosted a Capital Markets Day (CMD) in London yesterday where management confirmed the group’s CHF8bn 2018 EBITDA target, its capital allocation strategy and FCF f...
Cemex: senior level organisational changes
Cemex announced today changes to its senior level organisation, effective 1 January 2016. All of the executives named below are current executive committee members: Juan ...
Indonesia October sales support full-year forecast
Indonesian consumption figures in October 2015 showed a huge sales volume gain over the same month of the previous year, but year-to-date figures are just slightly higher due t...
SCG anticipates challenging 2016 start
Next year is expected be challenging for Siam Cement Group’s Cement and Building Materials, as the domestic market is facing the threat of new supply, according to management. ...
Demand for fossil fuels set to decline as investors consider world’s fuel choices at COP21
As the word’s decision makers are preparing to gather at the COP21 climate talks in Paris, investors consider the long-term prospects and risks of the fuel choice made in power...
14th NCB International Seminar on Cement and Building Materials underway, India
The 14 th NCB International Seminar on Cement and Building Materials officially opened on Tuesday in New Delhi, India, with more than 1000 delegates in attendance from the dom...
Standard & Poor's Ratings puts West China Cement on CreditWatch positive
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said that it had placed its 'B+' long-term corporate credit rating and 'cnBB' long-term Greater China regional scale rating on West China Cem...
Saudi: Southern Province Cement commercial operations from new line
Southern Province Cement launched on Monday the commercial operations at the third line of its Tihama plant, with a clinker production capacity of 5000tpd, the company said in ...
Estanda supplies LafargeHolcim plant in Nigeria
Estanda has supplied a LafargeHolcim cement plant in Nigeria with new designs for more efficient dip tubes, the Spanish equipment supplier said in a statement. The project, w...
PCA: cement segments show mixed growth in 2Q15
Growth among end-use cement segments was mixed as 10 of the 18 segments tracked recorded volume gains in the second quarter of 2015, according to the latest PCA Survey of Portl...
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