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Buzzi Unicem: Russia and America perform well

Buzzi Unicem turnover edged ahead by 0.9 per cent last year to €2813m, of which Dyckerhoff contributed an almost unc...

November 2012 sees eight per cent rise in US cement shipments

Total shipments for Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico reached 6.6Mt in November 2012, representi...

Georgia: HeidelbergCement starts Kaspi plant construction

HeidelbergCement has launched construction of a new cement plant in Kaspi, Shida Kartli region of Georgia. The outpu...

Oman: Raysut Cement's profits rise

Raysut Cement Co (RCC), the sultanate's biggest cement producer, announced a 64.1 per cent growth in net profit at O...

Industry: Vietnam Vicem sells 20.04Mt of cement and clinker in 2012

Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), the leading cement producer in the country, sold 20.4Mt of cement and c...

Nigeria: Gboko cement plant reopens

The reopening of Dangote Cement plant Gboko in Benue state on 1 February 2013 by the management came as a relief to ...

Uganda: MPs set to start debate on Dura cement report

MPs have begun to debate on a highly-billed report about the cancellation of a mining lease that cost taxpayers UGX4...

UK: recovery in Q4 masks longer-term trend

The latest Construction Trade Survey (CTS) published last Friday, shows that the majority of the construction indust...

Nigeria's Flour Mills to borrow to double cement capacity

Flour Mills of Nigeria plans to borrow between US$400m-500m to construct a new cement plant which will double its ex...

Egypt: signs of stability despite political unrest

Despite recent news reports of political tension in Egypt, there are some positive signs in the country's cement mar...