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Vietnamese exports rise 15% in February

Vietnamese exports have risen 15.2 per cent in volume and 36.3 per cent in value for February 2019, rising to around...

LafargeHolcim Russia appoints new CEO

LafargeHolcim Russia appointed M Goncharov as the new CEO of the company on 1 March 2019. G Brusco, the former chief...

Consortium to invest US$180m in Paraguayan cement industry

Plans are underway to create a new cement company in Paraguay, Cementos Concepción (Cecom). Paraguay’s President Mar...

Qatar National Cement signs deal to expand export operations

Qatar National Cement (QNC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Qatar Primary Materials, which will allow ...

Shivam Cement names new CEO

Shivam Cement of Nepal has appointed Sajan Devkota as its new chief executive officer. Mr Devkota has an experience ...

Eurocement orders three VRMs from Gebr Pfeiffer

Russia’s Eurocement has ordered three more VRMs for its Akhangaran project in Uzbekistan from Germany-based Gebr Pfe...

Alternative clinkers

The drive to lower the carbon footprint of cement has led to the development of alternative cement clinkers to repla...

TCMB analysis of Turkish cement sector

This week, Nihat Ozdemir, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association (TCM...

Sinai Cement records improvement in 2018

Egypt’s Sinai Cement has reported that its standalone loss has narrowed by 13.7 per cent YoY in 2018 to EGP305.89m (...

International Cement set to acquire Schwenk Namibia

Singapore’s International Cement Group has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire a 100 per cent stake in S...