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India: Orient Cement will increase debt with acquisition

The interest burden of Orient Cement is expected to increase following the acquisition of the cement assets of Jaipr...

Visible cracks

CDP reports on cement company performances across a range of environmental and sustainable indicators to see where ce...

Kazakh cement consumption shows signs of slowing

Cement consumption growth in Kazakhstan is expected to decelerate in 2016, breaking with the decade-long trend of de...

China: consolidation on production capacity by 2020

The China Cement Association (CCA) has advised that the merger of leading cement companies will likely concentrate t...

LafargeHolcim exits Chile as it sells Cemento Polpaico

LafargeHolcim will sell its majority stake in Chile's Cemento Polpaico to investment firm Inversiones Caburga Ltda, ...

Indonesia: minister to bring in regulation to stop capex expansion

In an effort to curb Indonesia’s burgeoning overcapacity, the government has announced that it is working on a regul...

Vietnam: inspection of polluted plants

A joint delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environm...

UK: Tarmac launches new packaging machine at Tunstead

Tarmac has unveiled a new, state-of-the-art cement packing facility at its Tunstead cement site, near Buxton, Derbys...

Ghana: cement companies cut prices to win market share

Improving economic conditions and Dangote’s aggressive pricing policies have been blamed for what looks to be a deve...

India: production to resume at Malabar Cements

Minister of Industry, E P Jayarajan, announced that Malabar Cements will resume operations his month. Production was...