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Nepal: standards bureau cracks down on cement plants

The Nepal Bureau of Standards & Metrology (NBSM) has shut down Butwal Cement Mills and Shubha Shree Jagadamba. The ...

Malaysia: Lafarge's LMCB secures loan agreement

Lafarge Malaysia Cement Bhd (LMCB) has converted the MYR580.69m (USS$225m) fixed rate notes due 2013 into an inter-c...

Pakistan’s Cherat Cement Co to raise production capacity

Cherat Cement Company Ltd (CCCL) of Pakistan plans to increase production capacity at its 2500tpd cement plant, situ...

Qatar: large order for Mercedes-Benz vehicles

Nasser Bin Khaled (NBK) Automobiles has signed an order with Khalid Cement Industries Complex (KCIC) of Qatar for th...

Peru: cement shipments rise

Peru's ASOCEM cement association reports that in July its members delivered 88,277t of cement in the domestic market...

New senior vice president for Buzzi Unicem USA

George Garcia has been promoted to senior vice president operations at Buzzi Unicem USA, effective from 1 July 2013....

CRH 1H13 revenues slip

CRH saw its sales revenue for 1H2013 fall by three per cent, or six per cent on a like-for-like basis, from EUR8.271...

Cement makers hit by infrastructure slump in emerging markets

Cement producers have been sliding on the financial stock exchanges as emerging market bonds and equities tumble, ac...

Cement prices in China keep rising

Although China's cement sales are outside their peak season, the average cement price in the country has continued t...

China to cut cement overcapacity with new plan

The Chinese government will soon release guidelines to further tackle industrial overcapacity, according to a report...