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Tajikistan cement to flourish with Chinese investment

This week it was reported that Tajikistan’s cement production had rocketed up by 41 per cent to 1.8Mt in the first 1...

The Addoha Group's expansion continues

Ciments de l’Atlas (CIMAT) announced the recent opening of the new 0.5Mta Diago grinding plant in Mali, which will i...

Medcem adds more grinding capacity to Cameroon

Medcem Cameroon (Eren Holdings Group) announced this week that it will officially open its 0.6Mta Douala grinding pl...

Cemex targets TCL acquisition

This week Cemex launched a bid to acquire Trinidad Cement Co Ltd (TCL) via its subsidiary Sierra Trading, which wou...

Chile's changing market

This week Cementos Bio Bio announced its 9M16 profits had been hard hit by foreign exchange rates and a similar stor...

Colombia's road ahead

In a week that has seen LafargeHolcim announcing the start of construction of a new 0.5Mta cement plant in Buga and ...

Saudi Arabia shifts focus as spending curtailed

With the publication of the 2016 budget, Saudi Arabia has put an end to the high rates of spending prevalent before ...

Cement producers won't ignore climate change

In a week when Donald Trump, a staunch sceptic of climate change, has become the US President-elect, there was bett...

9M16 results see upturn in the US and Egypt

Several cement companies released their 9M16 results this week. While the US and Egypt provided a healthy boost to b...

Ageria: moving towards self-sufficiency

This week Egypt-based ASEC-Group (part of Qalaa Holdings) informed of its agreement to sell off its partly-construct...