Shareholders of China Shanshui Cement Group vote to keep chairman
Shareholders of China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd have voted to keep Chairman Zhang Bin at a meeting in Hong Kong Tuesday, Bloomberg reports. The Shandong-based group held an ex...
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Carthage Cement posts 19% rise in 3Q15 turnover
Tunisia-based Carthage Cement increased its cement production by 52 per cent YoY in 3Q15. Cement turnover rose by 24 per cent during this period but clinker sales fell as the c...
Southern Province Cement posts 29% drop in 9M15 net earnings
Saudi producer Southern Province Cement Co posted net earnings of SAR202m (US$53.9m) for the third quarter of 2015, down 29 per cent compared with SAR285m a year earlier. Net ...
Ho Chi Minh City rejects Ha Tien grinding plans
The Ho Chi Minh City government has rejected Ha Tien 1 Cement JS's plans to relocate its Thu Duc cement grinding plant to District 9 and scale up the capacity of its Phu Huu g...
Star Ferro and Cement subsidiary enters into agreement with West Bengal grinding unit
Star Ferro and Cement Ltd on Tuesday said that its subsidiary has inked a production pact with another grinding unit in West Bengal, India. In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exc...
UK: One hundred days of helping from Hope
This week, Hope Construction Materials’ employees completed 100 days of voluntary work, as part of the organisation’s “Hope for Others” initiative. Hope’s employees off...
Oman: Raysut’s nine-month net profit down
Oman’s largest cement producer, Raysut Cement Co (RCC), said its net profit for the first nine months of this year fell 24.24 per cent to OMR15.81m (US$41m). The company’s rev...
Cemex’s data centre recognised for energy efficiency
Cemex announced today that its Data Center, located in Monterrey, Mexico, was awarded the Certified Energy Efficient Datacenter (CEEDA) Gold Certification – the highest recogni...
Steppe Cement revenue falls on lower pricing
Steppe Cement Ltd Tuesday said revenue in the first nine months of 2015 fell four per cent YoY as increased sales were offset by lower cement prices. Kazakhstan producer said ...
Sika expands footprint in Africa
Sika is opening its first concrete admixture and mortar production facilities in Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire and has established new subsidiaries in Ethiopia and Tanzania to part...
Mbeya Cement launches new product, Tanzania
Mbeya Cement, part of the LafargeHolcim group, has introduced higher-strength cement named Tembo Supaset 42.5 cement. Catherine Langreney, CEO of Lafarge Tanzania, said the pr...
Paraguay Minister of Industry: INC needs to import cement urgently
Gustavo Leite, Paraguay’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, said yesterday that there exists an alternative scenario that would see the country’s main cement producer, Industria ...
USA: Ecocem plans face local opposition
Irish manufacturer Ecocem’s plans for a EUR45m (US$50m) grinding works in California have met with opposition from locals concerned about the environmental impact of the plant....
Mozambique: new plant to start up this month
Mozambique's newest market entrant, Cimentos da Beira, is due to start up its 0.8Mta grinding plant is in October, according to the company's managing director, Wouter Trollip...
Investment agreed for Khokh Tsav Cement-Lime
The Mongolian cabinet has approved the draft agreement on investment for Khokh Tsav cement-lime plant and authorised the Minister of Industry, D Erdenebat, to sign the agreemen...
Dangote commissions 3Mta Tanzanian plant
Dangote Cement has commissioned its 3Mta Mtwara cement plant in Tanzania and held a groundbreaking ceremony for a 26ha jetty, as the Nigerian cement major continues its expansi...
Pakistan’s September cement sales and exports fall
September’s figures were disappointing for the cement industry as dispatches registered 2.95Mt, a decline of 6.4 per cent annually (-3.7 per cent monthly). As anticipated, exp...
Pikalevskiy Cement to produce higher-quality cement
Mikhail Skorokhod, president of Eurocement Group, visited Pikalevskiy Cement plant where a new dry-process line is being constructed.The project is part of ongoing modernisatio...
LafargeHolcim welcomes new CFO
LafargeHolcim announces the appointment of Ron Wirahadiraksa as the Group’s new Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee. Mr Wirahadiraksa will succeed Gro...
Lucky considers increasing northern exposure
Lucky Cement plans to build a new cement plant in the north region of the country to meet growing demand, a senior company official said on Friday. "Yes, we have planned to se...
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