JSW Group plans Salboni plant, India
JSW Group announced that it will be setting up a 2.4Mta grinding plant at Salboni in West Midnapore district, West Bengal, India. A 10Mt steel plant was originally planned ...
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Pakistan cement industry records revenue growth of 3.4% in FY15
Pakistan's domestic dispatches grew by 7.9 per cent YoY in FY15 to 28.2Mt, while exports fell 11.6 per cent YoY to 7.2Mt. The drop in exports limited revenue growth in the Paki...
Orient Cement commissions Karnataka plant, India
Orient Cement has commissioned and started commercial production of its new integrated greenfield cement plant Chittapur, Gulbarga district, Karnataka, with an installed capaci...
NCC kicks off Pangasinan plant expansion
Northern Cement Corp (NCC), part of the San Miguel Corp, has broken ground on the US$200m expansion of its plant in Pangasinan, Philippines. The new project will double the fac...
Venezuela: Trujillo's line 2 construction makes steady progress
The construction of the second line at the Trujillo plant of Venezuela’s Cemento Andino has progressed to 35.1 per cent, according to the president of Corporación Socialista de...
Egypt prices decline on slower construction activity
Egyptian prices have declined three times in the past two months as a result of increased supply and low demand in the market, local media have reported. A ton of cement now ...
Cemex USA announces divestment in the southeastern United States
Cemex USA announced Friday that it has signed an agreement for the sale of its gypsum wallboard business based in Florida to US LBM. The proceeds obtained from this transactio...
Paraguay: cement price spikes 20%
In the past few weeks the price for a bag of cement in Paraguay has spiked to PYG56,000 from PYG45,000, up 20 per cent. The price rise has been attributed to technical issues w...
Guatemala: Fitch affirms Cementos Progreso IDRs, Outlook Stable
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Cementos Progreso SA's (Cempro) Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'BB+'. The Rating Outlook is Stable. Cempro's 'BB+' ratings reflect the company's...
Bedeschi acquires Mid-West Conveyor Co
Bedeschi SpA of Italy announced the acquisition of Mid-West Conveyor Co, a US-based provider of turnkey bulk material handling systems for the utilities, mining, cement, fertil...
PPC Ltd: change to the Board Of Directors
Dr Daniel Ufitikirezi has resigned as a director of PPC with effect from 22 September 2015. This follows his resignation as the chairman of the board of Cimerwa, PPC's subsidia...
Siam Commercial Bank Pcl sells stake in Siam Cement Pcl
Siam Commercial Bank Pcl said on Thursday it sold its stake in Siam Cement Pcl to raise THB4.47bn (US$123.17m) funds to cover provisions for loans to struggling steel firm Saha...
Government to cancel India Cements plant
The government of India has decided to cancel the allotment of a cement plant given to India Cements in Gumma, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The decision was taken after India Ce...
Kenya: West Pokot plant construction poised for 2016 start
Construction work on a long-awaited cement plant in West Pokot County, Kenya, is due to commence early next year, company officials have confirmed. Cemtech Ltd, a subsidiary ...
CCI clears HeidelbergCement-Italcementi deal
Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved HeidelbergCement's proposed acquisition of Italcementi SpA. The fair trade regulator said in a tweet said it has approved "ac...
Aalborg Portland Malaysia selects Veeam Availability Suite v8
Veeam® Software, provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™ announced that Aalborg Portland Malaysia Sdn Bhd has deployed Veeam Availability Su...
Siam City Cement to set up Cambodian JV
Thailand-based Siam City Cement (SCCC) has approved a plan to set up a joint venture with Chip Mong Group to operate a cement plant in Cambodia. Thailand’s second-largest cem...
PPC expansion strategy on track
PPC's expansion strategy remains on track and the new plant in Rwanda was officially opened on 18 August 2015. In an investor presentation posted on PPC's website ahead of t...
Ecuador: Ucem to invest US$230m in new clinker plant
Ecuador’s Unión Cementera Nacional (Ucem) has signed a contract with Peru’s Casaracra and the Ministry of Production, Employment and Competition to build a new clinker plant in...
Cimentos de Mozambique installs bag filter, Mozambique
The Mozambican Minister of Industry and Trade has inaugurated a bag filter installed by Cimentos de Mozambique, part of the Cimpor group. "The decision of Cimentos de Mozambi...
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