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Holcim Mexico to raise prices of bagged cement

Holcim Mexico has announced that the prices of its bagged cement products will increase by seven per cent from 1 Sep...

Two Nigerian producers to raise capital funding of NGN250bn

Nigerian cement producers Dangote Cement Plc and Lafarge Africa Cement Plc have launched new capital raisers which a...

Trading up prospects

The South American region (excluding Brazil) has many cement producers not only investing in new production lines in...

Lafarge Cooktown plant celebrates 50 years of production

Lafarge Cement Ireland is celebrating 50 years of clinker and cement manufacturing at its Cookstown Plant.   Launche...

Sinoma battled desert in fast-build Beni Suef project

The government-owned Al-Arish Cement plant is located just outside Beni Suef, where six cement production lines now ...

US and Puerto Rico cement shipments stable

Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the USA and Puerto Rico remained stable at around 9.3Mt in June 20...

Ukrainian government approves ban on Russian clinker imports

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved a ban on the import of clinker originating from the Russian Federation. ...

ThaiGroup receives land for Minh Tam plant construction

The People’s Committee in Binh Phuoc, Vietnam, has decided to hand over 430,612m 2 of land to ThaiGroup JSC for the...

Cherat Cement’s FY18 profit increases by 9%

Cherat Cement Co Ltd (CHCC) of Pakistan earned a net profit of PKR2.13bn (US$17.3m) in FY18, up by nine per cent YoY...

Sri Lanka gears up for the future

This week CemNet reported that Sri Lanka saw a 56 per cent rise in cement imports , which reached record levels in ...