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Cohrs Elected Chairman of Portland Cement Association

The Portland Cement Association (PCA) Board of Directors elected Cary O. Cohrs as chairman during the association’s...

Holcim to invest US$20m to develop Ruhuna plant capacity

Holcim Sri Lanka will invest US$20m to develop grinding capacity at the Ruhuna plant in Galle to meet the future dem...

Semen Gresik to acquire Vietnam’s Thang Long Cement

Indonesian cement producer PT Semen Gresik Tbk plans to acquire a majority stake in Vietnam-based Thang Long Cement ...

Bashundhara Cement introduces VRM technology to Bangladesh

Mayor of Khulna Talukdar Abdul Khaleque along with managing director of Bashundhara Group Sayem Sobhan and other gue...

Titan suffers from Mediterranean markets

Titan's turnover for the first nine months of 2012 edged ahead by 1% to €847m, but the EBITDA fell by 26.6% to €162....

Indian cement sector to add 21.2Mta by the end of 2013

Project completions in India are expected to proceed at a brisk pace in the 2H12-13. In the cement sector, 21.2Mt of...

Dangote Cement could tip the balance to oversupply in East Africa

Plans by Dangote Cement to set up a manufacturing plant in Tanzania have complicated expansion plans for Kenyan firm...

South Africa: PPC eyes African cement growth

As South Africa entered a potentially slow growth year, rising cement demand in the rest of Africa presented strong ...

Reflecting on recent experiences

ICR interviews Ahmad Al-Rousan, AUCBM's secretary general, about the Middle East and North African markets.

Egypt: back on track?

ICR investigates the strength of the Egyptian cement market which has had to endure political upheaval, the withdrawa...