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Bangladesh earns US$10.41m on export of cement in FY19

Bangladesh's cement industry has recorded a fall of 17.3 per cent in export revenue to US$10.41m between July 2018 a...

Pakistan's cement exports rise but fall MoM in FY19

Pakistan's cement industry recorded a growth of 21.9 per cent in earning of foreign exchange revenue, 40.4 per cent ...

Belite in Portland clinker

While belite is often represented as a pure dicalcium silicate, in practice the phase contains a range of impurities...

Keystone Cement to switch to natural gas

USA-based Keystone Cement has announced that its application for a US$320,950 state grant to extend a natural gas li...

National Cement's acquisition of ARM blocked

The acquisition of ARM Cement for US$50m by National Cement has hit a legal block. ARM's former CEO and leading shar...

What is driving biomass use in the cement industry?

This week Ethiopia's Minister of Trade and Industry, Fetlework Gebre-Egziabher, spoke out on how the cement sector i...

UAE cement company finds use for camel dung

Gulf Cement is preventing thousands of tonnes of camel waste from going to landfill. The cement company is cutting i...

Lack of foreign currency impacts Mugher productivity

A shortage of foreign currency is affecting the operations of Ethiopia-based Mugher Cement, according to Akalu Gebre...

Caribbean Cement to dispose of over 2m tyres

Jamaica’s Caribbean Cement has been selected by the country’s government to remove and dispose of over 2m old tyres ...

Algeria exports US$30m of cement in 5M19

Algeria has exported cement to the value of US$29.96m in the first five months of 2019, an increase of 849.6 per cen...