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Kenya: Vipingo facility to make Mombassa Cement more competitive

African cement companies are eyeing the market created by a construction boom in east Africa and other countries in ...

Tunisia: Carthage Cement turnover up 43% in 1Q16

Tunisian cement producer Carthage Cement posted a 43 per cent rise in turnover to TND53.472m (US$26.78m)  in 1Q16 wh...

Tanzania: Tanga Cement suffers profit decline

Tanga Cement Co Ltd's 2015 profit fell to TZS8.24bn (US$3.774m) compared to TZS28.40bn (US$13m) in 2014, according t...

Vietnam PM approves Thaicement Ha Tien works

Vietnam's Prime Minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, has approved the investment in Thaicement's 4.5Mta Ha Tien plant in the ...

A self-cleaning process

In this Technical Forum Dr Michael Clark assesses what progress is being made to have a continuous self-cleaning ceme...

Nigeria: Work commences on Dangote’s Okpella plant

A groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new cement plant has been held as part of celebrations to mark A...

Qassim Cement profits fall 17% in 1Q16

Saudi Arabia’s Qassim Cement saw its profits drop 16.8 per cent YoY to SAR135.4m (US$36.1m) from SAR162.7m. The fa...

Kenya: Savannah Cement's Athi River plant upgrades

Savannah Cement has announced the completion of work to upgrade its 1.5Mta Athi River plant with the addition of a n...

Thailand: Italcementi to keep ASEAN base

Thailand will continue to be Italcementi Group's production base in ASEAN and its base for expanding into Myanmar af...

Ukraine: Volyn Cement posts 2015 rise in net revenue, but loss deepens

Volyn Cement, one of the top-three producers in Ukraine, posted a 23 per cent rise in net revenue from UAH754.892m (...