Pakistan: cement industry demands export incentives
As Pakistan reports a decline in cement export sales over the first quarter of FY16, the local industry body is calling on the government to provide relief measures and incenti...
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Morocco: September 2015 sales drop 21%
The Moroccan cement market contracted by 21 per cent YoY in September as sales fell to 1,029,736t. As a result, total cement sales for the year to date reached 10,508,851t, dow...
CEMBUREAU and Birdlife adopt joint position on EU nature directives
Birdlife Europe and CEMBUREAU have joined forces to identify ways in which the implementation of the Birds and Habitats Directives could be enhanced to the benefit of biodivers...
Semen Indonesia to commission new packing plant
PT Semen Indonesia will commission a new cement packing plant in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, sales department chief of the state company Bambang Djoko told local press. "The p...
Loesche wins new Saudi cement grinding order
Arabian Cement Co (ACC) has placed an order with CNBM (China) for a cement grinding plant including two Loesche vertical roller grinding mills. ACC is planning to build a ne...
Cementos Portland to refinance EUR817m debt, reports 9M15 results
Cementos Portland is currently analysing “various alternatives” to refinance EUR817m of debt, 59 per cent of its total liabilities, which expires in 2016. "The debt refinanc...
CTP closes three contracts, Pakistan
CTP TEAM, a Bedeschi company, announced the closing of three contracts with Power Cement Ltd for the upgrade of dedusting systems at the producer's cement factory in Pakistan. ...
New Uzbekistan greenfield plant construction
The Turkish Dal Engineering Group will commission a new 1.5Mta cement plant in the Surkhandarya region of Uzbekistan by late 2017, a representative from the country's Ministry ...
Lafarge begins public offer for Heracles shares, Greece
The Greek Capital Market Commission has approved a Lafarge Cementos SAU information bulletin over a public offer to the shareholders of Heracles Cement SA, submitted on 30 July...
Cemex recognised for environmental disclosure
Cemex announced that it was ranked second in the Latin American Climate Disclosure Leadership Index, a ranking compiled by CDP that recognises leading companies in the disclosu...
Buzzi boosted by strong US performance
Buzzi Unicem's turnover for the first nine months improved by 5.2 per cent to EUR1998.1m while EBITDA rose by 16.4 per cent to EUR352.1m. The trading profit was ahead by 52 per...
Bestway Cement 1QFY16 turnover jumps 38%
Pakistan's largest cement producer, Bestway Cement Ltd, announced financial results for first quarter from July to September 2015. Turnover on a consolidated basis jumped by ...
Cementir: good Nordic & Malaysia results
Cementir's turnover for the first nine months of 2015 edged ahead by 0.7 per cent to EUR719.7m as good Nordic and Malaysian performances offset the weakness experienced in Turk...
XXIV Cemex Building Award winners announced
Cemex announced the winners of the XXIV Edition of the Cemex Building Award at an awards ceremony held in the Colegio Vizcainas, a nonprofit educational institution in Mexico C...
Jorge Mario Velásquez appointed new Grupo Argos CEO
Grupo Argos’ Board of Directors unanimously appointed Jorge Mario Velásquez as its new CEO, effective March 2016 following the retirement of incumbent chief, José Alberto Vélez...
Puerto Rican cement sales down 14.4% YoY in Oct
Cement sales in Puerto Rico fell to 1085m bags in October, representing a 14.4 per cent YoY fall, the largest in the past nine months. The reduction has been attributed to a co...
Arab Union cement conference underway in Cairo
The 20th Arab International Cement Conference & Exhibition (AICCE) opened on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt. Taking place under the patronage of His Excellency Prime Minister ...
Italcementi’s North American and Bulgarian cement volumes ahead, but softer elsewhere
Italcementi's turnover improved by 3.2 per cent to EUR3217m in the first nine months the year and the running EBITDA was 1.7 per cent ahead to EUR482.9m, while the trading prof...
Poland: October output and dispatches dip
Cement production in Poland decreased by 2.4 per cent YoY to 1.55Mt in October, while sales fell six per cent to 1.55Mt, Poland's Cement Producer Association said in a statemen...
Cementos Argos included in the CDLI
Cementos Argos has been included in the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) ranking for Latin America thanks to its good practices in the field of sustainability and the...
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