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Italcementi raises EUR500m capital

Italian cement maker Italcementi fully completed a capital increase worth EUR500m on Monday. Investors subscribed to...

Hungarian concrete firms fined EUR9m

Eight ready-mixed concrete companies and the Hungarian Concrete Association were fined a total HUF2.79bn (EUR9m) for...

HeidelbergCement considering US cement plants

HeidelbergCement might buy the US and French cement plants that Lafarge and Holcim want to divest in order to receiv...

Chinese producers counting profits

Cement makers in China saw a resumption in profit growth last year thanks to a combination of improved construction ...

Ireland: two former divisions of Quinn to be acquired

A consortium, including some executives from Sean Quinn's old business empire, expects to buy two divisions of the o...

Tajikistan to double production in 2014

In the first six months of the year, Tajikistan produced 496,600t of cement according to the Ministry of Industry an...

Bolivia: COBOCE reaches agreement with transport organisations

Bolivian cement co-operative Cooperativa Boliviana de Cemento, Industrias y Servicios (COBOCE) has come to an agreem...

Kazakhstan: strategic partner invests in Hantau plant

Kazakhstan Investment Fund JSC has attracted a strategic partner for the launch of production at the Hantau cement p...

Iran produces 18.23Mt of cement in 1Q14

Iran produced 18.23Mt of cement and 19.35Mt of clinker in spring 2014, which corresponds to the first quarter of the...

Building a new cement plant at the worst possible time

Giorgio Bodo of ASEC Cement (Egypt) talks about building a new cement plant at the worst possible time. ASEC Cement’...