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Ghana: Ministry on cement-trade-war alert

Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Ghana's Minister of Trade and Industries, says his Ministry is undertaking a thorough evaluat...

Pakistan: Kohat half-year profit up 54%

Kohat Cement Company Ltd’s profit climbed 54 per cent to PKR2.10bn (US$20m) in the half-year ended 31 December  2015...

Lafarge Zambia boosts Ndola plant by 100,000tpa

Lafarge Zambia has successfully commissioned a plug-and-grind cement plant in Ndola which will produce 0.1Mta of cem...

CPA: construction fundamentals remain positive

UK construction output was marginally weaker in the final three months of 2015, but the Construction Products Associ...

Angolan government maintains import ban

The government of Angola has decided to maintain the cement import ban in 2016 in 15 provinces, claiming that the in...

Spain: demand up 5.3% in 2015

Cement consumption in Spain has increased by 5.3 per cent to 11,408,287t in 2015, according to Oficemen, the country...

Algeria: PM lays foundation stone for new plant

Prime Minister of Algeria, Abdelmalek Sellal, on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the project of a cement plan...

JK Cement halts production from Bagalkot unit, India

JK Cement Works, in Bagalkot in Karnataka, has stopped production due to the damage caused by the roof of the clinke...

Jordan cement demand at 4Mta in 2015

Jordan’s consumption of cement declined to 4Mt in 2015, down by 300,000t from a year earlier due to weaker construct...

Egypt issues licences for new cement factories in Upper Egypt

Egypt's Ministry of Trade and Industry has issued new 14 licences for cement factories in Upper Egypt governorates, ...