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New standard for alkali-activated cements

With the European market proving a barrier to Lucideon Ltd seeing its technology for alkali-activated cements enteri...

North America: fires at plant and quarry

On Tuesday fires broke out at both the Cemex Balcones Quarry, Texas, USA, and the Lehigh Hanson Materials cement pla...

Austrian cement demand up 4% in 2015

The Austrian cement market expanded by four per cent to 4.6Mt in 2015 and generated a turnover of EUR388m. Exports r...

LafargeHolcim: cement volumes up 1.4% but revenues flat

In its results for 1Q16, LafargeHolcim announced that cement volume sales rose by 1.4 per cent YoY with the Asia-Pac...

Nigeria: Ashaka building power plant

Management of Ashaka Cement Plc has concluded plans to build its own power plant due to concerns over an inadequate ...

FLSmidth and GE to make cloud data platform

FLSmidth and GE will create digital solutions together to increase productivity in the cement and minerals industrie...

Cementir's 1Q16 revenue falls 1.1% to EUR218.9m

Cementir has announced that its results for the 1Q16, despite being lower than the previous year, are in line with m...

Japan: companies turn to recycling

Japan’s cement makers are turning to resource recycling as alternative revenue sources as demand for cement is seen ...

China: Asia Cement and CNBM halt Shanshui offer

Following nine months of consideration, Asia Cement and CNBM have said they will not proceed with plans to buy the s...

Sri Lanka: Holcim Lanka inaugurates new transport model

LafargeHolcim subsidiary Holcim Lanka has begun operations of a new ship-to-rail road hybrid model for the transport...