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India: higher petcoke prices will hit cement companies

A near 75 per cent jump in the prices of petcoke, plus a similar rise in diesel costs combined with the policy of de...

Nigeria: BUA Group to offer incentives to cement distributors

BUA Group, the conglomerate which owns the Cement Company of Northern Nigeria, is to offer incentives of NGN100m (US...

Saudi Arabia: Yamama Cement secures US$266m for new plant

Saudi Arabia's Yamama Cement Company has secured SAR1bn (US$266.6m) to partially fund the building of a new plant, i...

Pakistan: cement exports fall on YoY basis in 5MFY2016-17

Pakistani cement manufacturers earned revenues of US$23.68m on exports of 455,720t cement in November 2016, compare...

Iran: gas outages halt production

Operations at cement plants in Iran have been disrupted by continuous gas outages every winter, according the the he...

United States: Drake Cement’s Paulden plant seeking to expand clinker production

Drake Cement has submitted an application to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to increase clinker pro...

Pakistan: Bestway Cement joins bidding for Dewan Cement assets

Bestway Cement Ltd has informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on 30 Dec that it is considering acquiring the norther...

Siam Cement predicts high demand for cement next year

Demand for cement in the Asean region is expected to rise further in 2017, according to Siam Cement Group (SCG) Pres...

India: demonetisation stalls Indian cement recovery

Cement demand is unlikely to recover for another year due to demonetisation and an increase in prices for diesel and...

Vietnam slows down cement capacity development

The Vietnamese cement sector has 20Mta overcapacity and must now slow down the pace of investment into new cement pr...