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Egyptian government announces award of three new plant licences

The Egyptian Industrial Development Authority has today announced that three firms have been successful in their bid...

Mexico: Cemex prepays 2017 maturity in credit agreement

Cemex has prepaid US$373m, corresponding to the September 2017 amortisation under the facilities agreement of 29 Sep...

Cementos Moctezuma completes second line at Apazapan

Cementos Molins and Buzzi Unicem's Mexican joint venture, Cementos Moctezuma, announced that construction of the sec...

India: Lafarge Surma mine to expand production

Bangladeshi cement manufacturer Lafarge Surma Cement (LafargeHolcim Group) has received environmental clearance from...

HeidelbergCement completes sale of US assets to Cementos Argos

HeidelbergCement has completed the US$660m sale of the Martinsburg cement plant and eight terminals to Cementos Argo...

A burning success

CRH's Rohoznik cement plant in Slovakia has installed a new FLSmidth JETFLEX® burner to raise its solid alternative f...

Kazakhstan: Steppe Cement refinances US$15m loans

Steppe Cement has announced that it has refinanced two loans worth a combined US$15.3m, StockMarketWire reports. ...

USA: Orcem receives backlash over new plant

Orcem America has said it wants to set up operations in Vallejo, California, opposite the Mare Island peninsula. Und...

Tanzania: rising costs bring Dangote plant to a standstill

Production at Dangote’s Mtwara plant in Tanzania was brought to a halt last week as the company has found itself emb...

Sinai Cement swings into EGP7.7m 3Q profit

Egypt’s Sinai Cement reported a profit of EGP7.65m in 3Q16 vs a 3Q15 loss of 24.47m. In the first nine months of ...