Thai 3Q consumption likely to be flat - report
Cement consumption in Thailand is likely to be rather flat in 3Q15 and 9M15, according to a report by Bualuang Securities focussed on domestic cement major Siam Cement Co (SCC)...
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Limak embarks on Mozambique plant project
Limak Holding has laid the foundation stone for a grinding and packing plant in Maputo, Mozambique, a move that forms part of the Turkish company's vision to become a global ce...
Dominican Republic: Haiti export ban expected to cost Cemento Andino DOP2m
The ban on exports to Haiti will cost Cementos Andino DOP2m, according to Cementos Andino President, Nelson Bello. The road transport sector is expected to be significantly aff...
Votorantim studies Sobral waste fuel option, Brazil
Currently developing its second factory in Sobral, Votorantim Cimentos is studying the possibility of using solid waste as fuel in a new venture in the city. The idea was pre...
CREDAI files complaint with India regulator
The Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI) has filed a complaint with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against cement manufacturers fo...
Vietnam nine-month sales up 3% YoY
Vietnam sold 52.11Mt of cement and clinker in the first nine months of this year, rising three per cent from a year earlier and fulfilling 73 per cent of the whole-year target,...
Lafarge Nigeria unit takes control of UNICEM
An affiliate of Lafarge Africa has completed a 100 per cent acquisition of Nigeria's third-largest cement manufacturer, United Cement Company of Nigeria (UNICEM). Lafarge said...
EPA settles case with Cemex Puerto Rico
The US Environmental Protection Agency announced that Cemex Puerto Rico will spend an estimated US$1.7m on pollution control measures to reduce NOx emissions from its plant in ...
Egypt: Qena Cement makes offer for larger stakes in Qalaa subsidiaries
Egyptian investment company Qalaa Holdings announced Monday that it received a preliminary acquisition offer from Qena Cement to buy stakes in both its subsidiaries ASEC Minya ...
Hanson Building Products announces name change to Forterra
Hanson Building Products has changed its company name to Forterra, following a recent divestment by former owners HeidelbergCement. The rebranding brings with it a new logo an...
CalPortland completes acquisition of California assets from Martin Marietta Materials, USA
Taiheiyo Cement USA, Inc and CalPortland Company announced that the purchase of certain Riverside cement business assets in California from Martin Marietta Materials, Inc was s...
Argentina's total cement sales increase 7% YoY September
Total cement sales increased 14.9 per cent MoM and seven per cent YoY to 1.128Mt in September, according to AFCP, the Argentine cement producers’ association. In the domesti...
KHD wins new order from OYAK Aslan Cimento, Turkey
OYAK Aslan Cimento Sanayii TAS, awarded KHD Humboldt Wedag a contract for engineering and delivery of equipment to upgrade its cement grinding line. OYAK’s seventh KHD roller p...
Sino Zimbabwe cuts prices to boost market share
Sino Zimbabwe has reduced the price of its cement products by 20 per cent to increase market share, according to reports by the Financial Gazette’s Companies & Markets. Genera...
Hanson Ketton benefits from Siemens control system/integrated drive solution
A control system/integrated drive system solution from Siemens at Hanson Cement’s Ketton plant in the UK has produced a number of significant benefits for the cement giant and ...
Lafarge Zimbabwe reports half-year loss
The local Zimbabwe unit of LafargeHolcim reported an after tax loss of ZMD1.39m for the half year to June from a loss of ZWD1.32m in the prior comparable period, on weak demand...
Italcementi announces change to Board of Directors
Italcementi announced that Elena Zambon is retiring from its Board of Directors for professional reasons. Ms Zambon had been acting as Independent Director and was a member o...
US Jan-July cement shipments reach 50Mt
Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico for the year through July totalled 50Mt, up by 3.4 per cent in the same period in 2014, late...
Colombian cement consumption rises 8.6% YoY in August
Colombia’s cement market expanded by 8.6 per cent YoY in August to 1.108Mt on the back of increased demand from construction companies and contractors (+21.4 per cent) and read...
LNG-powered dedicated cement carrier to be launched
The first cement carrier to run on LNG is to be launched at the yard of Ferus Smit, Westerbroek, The Netherlands (y/n 423) on 31 October and be named the Greenland. The vessel ...
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