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MPA: subdued 2Q sales, prospects positive

Sales volumes of aggregates and ready-mixed concrete were four per cent higher and asphalt 10 per cent higher in the...

Pakistan – preliminary figures: MoM sales down by a third

Pakistan cement sales fell by 33 per cent in the first month of FY15-16 to 2.19Mt, preliminary data from AHL Researc...

CRH completes Lafarge-Holcim transaction

CRH announced that the transaction to acquire certain assets from Lafarge SA and Holcim Ltd for a total enterprise v...

Cementir boosted by financial items

Cementir's turnover edged ahead by 0.6 per cent to EUR475.7m in first half of 2015, as the improvements in Denmark a...

Kenya: ARM Cement to recover from US$4.6m 1H15 loss

Kenya's ARM Cement stooped to a first-half pretax loss of KES473.52m (US$4.6m), the firm said on Thursday, but said ...

Exchange rate helps Lafarge’s 6% EBITDA increase

Lafarge's first-half turnover improved by 5.3 per cent to EUR6319m while EBITDA advanced by 5.9 per cent to EUR1223m...

Italcementi’s improvements in Asia and North America offset declines elsewhere

Italcementi's first-half turnover recovered by 5.8 per cent to EUR2167.5m and running EBITDA improved by 5.3 per cen...

Namibia’s Ohorongo Cement is boosted by exports

Ohorongo Cement, Namibia’s sole cement manufacturer, has produced about 2.4Mt of cement for both local and foreign c...

Indonesian producers predict 2016 market pick-up

PT Semen Indonesia and its subsidiary Semen Gresik are optimistic the domestic cement market will improve in 2016 de...

Tororo cement invests US25m in expansion

Uganda’s largest cement manufacturer has earmarked UGX86bn (US$25m) towards the plant expansion. Tororo Cement Ltd w...