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Indonesia: Semen Bosowa sets aside US$500m for expansion

Semen Bosowa is setting aside US$500m this year to expand capacity in anticipation of a pick-up in demand across the...

UltraTech to not bid for Lafarge/Holcim assets

UltraTech has pulled out of the race to buy cement assets up for sale as Lafarge and Holcim’s proposed merger, the I...

Babcock awarded fleet management contract by Lafarge Tarmac

Lafarge Tarmac has awarded Babcock International Group a GBP41m (EUR52.4m) five-year contract (with a five-year exte...

Boldrocchi completes new de-dusting project in Egypt

Boldrocchi Ecologia has successfully completed commissioning and start-up of new air pollution control equipment for...

FLSmidth sells Cembrit Holding A/S

FLSmidth has signed an agreement with a company in the Solix Group AB to sell all shares in Cembrit Holding A/S, one...

Steppe Cement preliminary full-year update

Kazakhstan-based producer Steppe Cement Ltd achieved a cement sales volume of 1.61Mt in 2014, up 18 per cent on the ...

The year ahead...

2015 has got off to something of a bumpy start with sharply-declining oil prices (below US$50/bbl at the time of wri...

Stronger markets in 2015?

What does 2015 have in store for the cement sector? After three relatively poor years in terms of global construct...

Indonesia: 2014 cement sales fall short of expectations

Indonesian cement sales fell short of expectations last year, increasing by 3.6 per cent YoY to 59.9Mt, according to...

New Guinea-Bissau grinding plant seeks IFC loan

HeidelbergCement subsidiary Scancem, in partnership with Maxime Cardoz, a private investor from Senegal, has applied...