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South Africa: PPC to reshuffle board

PPC and its investors have agreed to reshuffle the company's board, calling off a special shareholder meeting schedu...

US$125m CAF loan signed for Guayaquil project

Holcim Ecuador SA has signed a loan contract for US$125m with the Latin American development bank, CAF. The funds wi...

UNACEM completes Ecuador acquisition

Peruvian cement producer Union Andina de Cementos SAA (UNACEM) confirmed that it has completed the purchase of Lafar...

Ecocem awarded first self-handling stevedoring licence for Dublin Port

Ecocem has been issued the first self-handling stevedoring licence at Dublin Port where it operates a slag grinding ...

US: increase in average kiln sizes

US kiln sizes increased over the 2010-13 period, according to the PCA’s 2013 Plant Information Summary. The latest ...

Shiva April-Nov dispatches up 31% YoY

Shiva Cement's dispatches of cement and clinker from April-November 2014 were up by 31 per cent compared to the comp...

China to halt output from three northeast provinces

China is to halt cement production in three northeast provinces to reduce winter emissions. The world’s largest cem...

Cemex to resume Tepeaca plant expansion

Cemex announced that it is to restart the expansion of its Tepeaca cement plant in Mexico having put the project on ...

Buzzi Unicem finalises Uralcement acquisition

Buzzi Unicem, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Dyckerhoff GmbH, has completed the acquisition of a 100 per cent i...

Eagle Materials announces appointment of COO

Eagle Materials Inc has appointed Michael Haack as Chief Operating Officer (COO), reporting to Steve Rowley, preside...