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Setting a new benchmark

As ever-higher efficiencies are demanded of grinding equipment, cement plants require a new benchmark for grinding c...

Gambia's turning point

Leaving behind a past of political unrest and financial mismanagement, Gambia is at the start of an exciting new ch...

ENERGY – OPEC consolidates oil while India shakes petcoke, coal high

Prices at a glance Crude oil - bbl US$64.00 Coal API 4 - 1Q18 US$91.25 ...

BDI rallies on back of coal demand

Freight rates in the dry bulk sector are rising on the back of a commodity boom. By the end of November 2017, the Ba...

Coal price to come down, freight rates to harden

Chinese coal prices, which have fluctuated between CNY550-750/t (US$83.60-114/t) in the past two years, are set to e...

Cement demand in Peru up 2.5% in November

Cement consumption in Peru totalled 0.902Mt in November, representing a 2.5 per cent YoY rise but a MoM drop of 2.5 ...

Event held to review standardisation of cement in Nigeria

Officials from the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), representatives of professional bodies in the constructio...

Cementa applies for 30-year limestone quarry extension

HeidelbergCement-owned Cementa has submitted an application to continue its limestone extraction operations at Deger...

Lipetskcement brings new logistics facility online

Lipetskcement, part of the Eurocement Group, has launched a new RUB600m (US$10.4m) production and logistics facility...

Indian cement prices to increase by January

Cement prices in India are expected to increase by INR3-4/bag by mid-January as the government has decided to hike t...