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Acquisition of Holcim Philippines may reduce cement prices

The Philippine’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has stated that it expects San Miguel Corp’s recent acquisi...

Belarusian president calls to improve cement exports

The president of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, has called to raise the cement exports of the country during a meeti...

Mali cement prices rise under absent Senegal imports

Cement prices in Mali have risen sharply with some blaming the absence of Senegalese imports while others have put t...

Unitherm-Cemcon supplies MAS burners to South Korean plant

Unitherm-Cemcon has commissioned a MAS burner for a South Korean cement producer in May 2019. The start-up took just...

South Valley Cement profit down 54% in 2018

Egypt-based South Valley Cement Co posted a profit of EGP10.18m (US$597,032)  in 2018, representing a 54 per cent Yo...

Soil and wind-blown sand cement developed in China

Chinese researchers at Ximjiang Communications Construction Group Co Ltd claim to have developed a low-cost and envi...

Spain’s cement demand up 9% in March, exports continue to fall

Spanish cement consumption increased 8.7 per cent YoY in March 2019, according to Oficemen, the domestic cement asso...

LafargeHolcim improves strongly in Europe

LafargeHolcim's first-qu­­arter turnover improved by 2.2 per cent to CHF5959m (EUR5235m), with the increase amountin...

Vicat can expect higher returns in USA and Brazil

This week Vicat announced its 1Q19 results with a positive turnover increase of 4.7 per cent to EUR600m. It is a goo...

Moroccan cement deliveries stable in April

Cement deliveries in Morocco remained stable in April 2019 at 1.241Mt when compared with the 1.233Mt sold in April 2...