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Honduras: Goldlake invests US$230m in 1.2Mta plant

Italy’s mining company Goldlake will invest US$230m in a new cement plant via its local subsidiary Five Star Mining....

Bestway Cement signs MoU with NUST Institute of Civil Engineering, Pakistan

Bestway Cement signed an MoU with NUST Institute of Civil Engineering on 27 July to promote the research and develop...

National Cement Co first half ahead 4.7%

National Cement Co (NCC) posted a net profit of AED70.2m (US$19.11m) in the first half of 2015, a rise of 4.7 per ce...

CMA welcomes recent sale of UK plants

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has welcomed the sale of plants by Lafarge Tarmac and Hanson. In t...

Footwear waste to be used as alternative fuel for Vietnam kiln

Work is underway to commission a Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) manufacturing plant for Holcim Vietnam to process solid ...

CalPortland Co to buy Martin Marietta's California cement business

Taiheiyo Cement Corp announced Tuesday that its California subsidiary CalPortland Co (CPC) will buy Martin Marietta ...

Argentina: July cement demand climbs 12.6% YoY

The Argentinean cement market expanded by 1.3 per cent MoM and 12.6 per cent YoY in July 2015, according to domestic...

CIMAF plans Guinea-Bissau investment

Morocco's Ciments de L’Afrique (CIMAF) will build a cement facility in Guinea-Bissau, the  Prime Minister’s office o...

HeidelbergCement BB+ confirmed on Italcementi deal - Fitch

US ratings agency Fitch has confirmed the 'BB+' rating on German cement maker HeidelbergCement (HC), with outlook st...

RAK Cement reports first-half profit drop

Ras Al Khaimah Cement reported a 22.3 per cent profit drop to AED2.45m ($667,000) in the first half of 2015, compare...