Estanda completes Semen Indonesia project
Estanda has finished supplying and installing an outlet diaphragm for a cement mill for the Semen Indonesia cement group. The outlet diaphragm was installed for the A line (CM...
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Japan: Sumitomo Osaka Cement operating profit seen rising
Japan-based Sumitomo Osaka Cement's group operating profit is expected to jump 13 per cent for the April-September half on rising sales and declining coal prices, according to ...
Dangote Cement 9M15: new operations help offset weaker domestic demand
Dangote Cement said nine-month profit gained 12 per cent as its new operations across the African continent helped offset weaker demand in its home market of Nigeria. Net inc...
Eagle Materials reports record quarterly cement earnings and volumes
Eagle Materials Inc posted yesterday record quarterly Cement and Paperboard division operating earnings as demand for the company's building materials and construction product...
Lafarge Africa Plc profit slips 6.5%
Lafarge Africa Plc has reported a profit after tax of NGN29bn (US$145.7m) for the nine months ended 31 September 2015, compared with NGN31bn recorded in the corresponding of 20...
Algeria: Société des Ciments de Sigus awards turnkey plant contract
Polysius France SAS, part of Germany-based ThyssenKrupp, has been awarded the contract for the cement plant in Oum El Bouaghi by Société des Ciments de Sigus, part of Groupe In...
Lafarge Malaysia Bhd considers Sarawak investment
Lafarge Malaysia Bhd is considering to re-operate in Sabah and Sarawak regions amid the huge potential, its newly-appointed president and chief executive officer, Thierry Legra...
ARM swings to nine-month net loss, Kenya
Athi River Mining (ARM) posted an after-tax loss of KES469m (US$4.6m) for the nine months to the end of September 2015, largely attributable to the depreciation in regional cur...
Cemex recognised in the UK for protecting road users
Cemex announced today that its operations on the United Kingdom were recognised with the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Annual Award for Excellence in Vu...
LafargeHolcim successfully completes squeeze-out of Lafarge SA
LafargeHolcim today announced on Friday it has successfully implemented the squeeze-out of Lafarge SA. With this the shares of Lafarge SA are now delisted from Euronext Paris a...
HeidelbergCement reduces refinancing needs by further €500m
HeidelbergCement has taken another step to optimise the financing of the Italcementi acquisition. The volume of the bridge financing could be reduced by further EUR500m from EU...
China Resources Cement nine-month net profit drops 61%
China Resources Cement said its profit attributable to owners for the nine months ended 30 September 2015 dropped 60.6 per cent YoY to HKD1282.2m. Turnover was HKD19,752m, a ...
Brazil sees double-digit drop in September sales
Brazil’s September cement sales fell by 14.7 per cent YoY to 5.5Mt, according to a summary of preliminary industry data and market estimates published by Sindicato Nacional da ...
Chinese company signs MoU for Namibian plant
China-based Asian and African Business Management has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Namibian company Whale Rock Cement for a US$350m cement plant. The signing cere...
Attock Cement 1Q net profit up 2%
Attock Cement announced a net profit of PKR470m (US$4.5m) in the first quarter (Jul-Sep) of fiscal year 2015-16, up just two per cent compared to the profit it earned in the sa...
Namibia: Ohorongo Cement named NMA Manufacturer of the Year 2015
Ohorongo Cement has been awarded the Namibian Manufacturers Association (NMA) Manufacturer of the Year 2015 Award. Namibia's sole cement producer scooped the following award...
Cemex' gearing rises to 183 per cent
During the first nine months of the year, Cemex' turnover declined by 7.2 per cent to US$10,722.4m while the EBITDA was 1.4 per cent lower at US$1,974.3m. The trading profit, h...
Cemex Latin American Holdings burdened by weaker Colombian markets
Cemex Latin American Holdings' turnover for the first nine months of the year declined by 16.8 per cent to US$1,102.1m and the EBITDA came down by 21.8 per cent to US$346.3m. T...
Spain: monthly demand up but slowdown noted
Spain’s cement consumption in the first nine months of 2015 increased by 4.8 per cent, but the growth rate decelerated in the past three months, according to Oficemen, the coun...
Production in construction down by 0.2% in euro area
In August 2015 compared with July 2015, seasonally-adjusted production in the construction sector fell by 0.2 per cent in the euro area (EA19) and by 1.2 per cent in the EU28, ...
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