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Carthage Cement wins 350,000t clinker contract

Tunisia’s Carthage Cement has been awarded the contract for the export of 350,000t of clinker to sub-Saharan Africa...

GCC reports record 11M cement sales

Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua SAB de CV (GCC) reports total cement sales volumes for the company reached almost 4Mt fo...

Loma Negra to invest US$350m in new L'Amali line

InterCement-owned Loma Negra will invest US$350m in a brownfield expansion of its L'Amali plant in Olavarría, Buenos...

Finding the missing link

In 2015 Çimsa Çimento’s Mersin plant, Turkey, suffered an increasing number of cyclone blockages, causing severe in...

Are better times ahead for Lafarge Malaysia Cement?

ICR highlighted the plight of Lafarge Malaysia this week as the company reported a 3Q17 loss of US$10.3m with expect...

Crystal clusters in clinker

With increasing use of alternative fuels, short homogenisation times in precalciner kiln systems and the requiremen...

Fauji Cement announce plans for greenfield project

Fauji Cement Company Ltd (FCCL) has announced plans to set up a greenfield project. The Pakistan-based company curr...

Punjab government proposes ban on new cement plants in Potohar

The Punjab government has proposed to ban the establishment of new cement factories in the Potohar region of Pakista...

Ho Chi Minh City concerned over cement shortages

Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City has expressed concern of a potential shortage of cement and construction sand in 2020, ac...

Zambian economic zone to establish cement plant

A US$500m cement plant is expected to be set up near the Lusaka South Multi-facility Economic Zone (LS-MFEZ). The pl...