Keystone agrees to pay air pollution fine, USA
Keystone Cement Co, based in Bath, PA, has agreed to pay nearly US$200,000 for violating air quality standards over a four-year period, the state Department of Environmental Pr...
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Colombia: Cemex invests MXN1.20bn in social projects
Cemex has confirmed an allocation of MXN1.20bn (US$71.27m) to social initiatives in Colombia. The company stated that part of the resources were invested in infrastructure wo...
Peru: demand slips 3.8 per cent YoY in August
Peru’s cement market continues to contract as domestic dispatches fell 3.8 per cent YoY in August, according to Asocem, the country’s cement association. Output fell by 6.6 per...
UltraTech gets MoE go-ahead for Awarpur expansion, India
UltraTech Cement has received clearance from the Ministry of Environment to expand capacity at its Awarpur plant in Maharasthra, subject to certain conditions. The company has...
Cementos Pacasmayo begins commercial operations at Piura plant
Cementos Pacasmayo SAA, a leading Peruvian supplier of cement and construction materials, announced today that it has begun commercial production from its new cutting-edge Piur...
DR Congo: cement price rise in Kananga
The price of a 50kg bag of cement is rising in Kananga, the capital of Central Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo. It is now around US$40-42 from US$37.75 a week ago, accordin...
Ash Grove Cement Company manager recognised by PCA
Portland Cement Association (PCA) named Scott Nielson the runner-up of a 2015 John P Gleason Jr Leadership Award. Presented at PCA’s annual fall committee meeting, the awards ...
Egypt: Ministry to assess environmental impact of coal use
Egypt's Environment Minister, Khaled Fahmy, has agreed to assess the environmental impact of seven out of 19 cement companies that have conducted studies to use coal as an alte...
US seven-month shipment update
Shipments of Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico totalled 50.038Mt in the first seven months of the year, preliminary data from the US Geological Survey (USGS...
Gebr Pfeiffer supplies Hormicreto clinker plant in Ecuador
Gebr Pfeiffer, Inc, a subsidiary of Gebr Pfeiffer SE (Germany) was recently contracted to supply a complete grinding station to replace aging ball mills at the Hormicreto clink...
Tanzania: Tanga six-months hit by devaluation of shilling
Tanga Cement Company has registered a net loss of TZS6.94bn- for the six months to June 2015, compared to a profit of TZS8.60bn in the corresponding period of year. Manageme...
Ecuador August sales slip MoM
Ecuador cement sales over the first eight months of 2015 climbed to 3.88Mt, the latest update from local cement association INECYC shows. During August 2015, sales slipped by...
New director general appointed at Kavkazcement
Igor Nikolenko has been appointed the new General Director of CJSC Kavkazcement, part of Eurocement. A Eurocement statement stated that the new appointment was highly qualified...
Tarmac unveils GPB6.6m asphalt plant, UK
Tarmac yesterday unveiled a state-of-the-art asphalt plant in Hertfordshire, UK. The GBP6.6m plant replaces an older 1960s operation. It has greater capacity, is more efficient...
Lafarge Zambia reports first-half increase
Lafarge Zambia plc has posted a four per cent profit after tax from ZMW180.7m ((US$18.4m) in 1H14 to ZMW187.1m in the same period of 2015 despite the country's economic challen...
GICA’s Ain El Kebira to launch on stock exchange
Groupe Industrial des Ciments d’Algérie (GICA) plans to place 35 per cent of the capital of Ain El Kebira cement plant on the Algerian stock exchange in 2016, according to its ...
Myanmar: Arr Thit Man plans to double capacity
Myanmar producer Arr Thit Man plans to double its cement output from 5000tpd to 10,000tpd by 2016, according to a report in the Myanmar Times citing senior officials. The com...
Pakistan: Bestway Cement and Pakcem results update
Bestway Cement and group company Pakcem have posted a positive bottom line. Net turnover increased by 5.4 per cent from PKR28.9bn (US$277m) to PKR30.5bn for Bestway and Pakcem ...
St-Gobain gets green light to acquire control of Sika
The Swiss competition commission (Comco) has authorised the control of Sika by construction materials giant St-Gobain, the French company announced in a press release on Tuesda...
Voronezh Cement output reaches 1Mt, Russia
Voronezh Cement, part of the Eurocement group, produced 1Mt as at 3 September 2015, some 100,000t more than the same period of last year. The dry-process plant is located 200k...
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