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Algeria: Lafarge-Souakri plant operational in August

Lafarge Algeria and Souakri’s joint venture, the 2.7Mta Biskra cement works, is expected to deliver its first bag of...

Peru cement market contracts 7% in April 2015

Peru’s cement deliveries fell 7.1 per cent YoY to 800,000t in April 2015 due to lower government spending and climat...

South Africa imposes duties on Pakistan cement imports

South Africa has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties ranging from 14.29 per cent to 77.15 per cent on Portland c...

CRH confirms watchdog search at Platin works

CRH has confirmed its Platin works in Ireland, owned by its subsidiary Irish Cement, has been searched by the Compet...

Vicem monthly sales down 3.1% YoY

State-owned Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), the country’s leading cement producer, said it sold about 2...

Protests against Holcim Indonesia's planned lay-offs

The labor union of Holcim Indonesia has demanded that the company hold further discussions on its plan to lay off hu...

KHD's first-quarter revenue down, order intake increases

KHD Humboldt Wedag reported a 15.4 per cent decline in revenue for 1Q15 to EUR50.7m compared to the first quarter of...

Indocement shareholders approve disbursement of almost all 2014 profits as dividends

During an annual shareholders meeting in Jakarta on Wednesday the shareholders of PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa  a...

Steppe Cement swings to full year loss, Kazakhstan

Steppe Cement has swung to a FY pretax loss of US$8.1m in 2014 from a US$13m profit in the previous year. Revenue to...

Aboitiz plans to buy Lafarge Philippines assets

Philippine conglomerate Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc said on Friday it had signed an agreement for a possible acquisi...