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Lafarge Cement appoints new Cookstown plant manager

Lafarge Cement (Aggregate Industries) has appointed John Mulgrew as the new plant manager of its renowned Cookstown cement plant in Northern Ireland. Mr Mulgrew succeeds Russell Larmour who, afte...
News - 12 June 2020

Southeast Asia’s capacity conundrum

Southeast Asia’s vibrant cement industry faces a serious but not insurmountable challenge from the current COVID-19 pandemic. In the long-run, structural overcapacity will be the key force of chan...
Articles - 09 June 2020

Fire at Mannersdorf cement works

A fire broke out at Lafarge Zementwerke’s Mannersdorf cement plant in Austria at around 19h on Sunday, 7 June 2020. According to the company, the starting point was the fuel store and the fire spr...
News - 09 June 2020

Malaysia – finding its resolve

Within southeast Asia, Malaysia represents one of the largest consumers of cement per capita. The lacklustre demand trends seen in the past 4-5 years were forecast to ameliorate in 2020 due to an ...
Articles - 02 June 2020

Canadian Cement Association and producers call on President to up infrastructure spending

Canada's cement companies and the Cement Association of Canada (CAC) have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as well as federal ministers to plead for federal government to prioritise constr...
News - 02 June 2020

Buzzi Unicem: Italy and beyond

The growth of Buzzi Unicem into a major multinational has taken more than a century. While its operations span the Atlantic and stretch to the Russian Urals in the east and the Mediterranean Sea a...
Articles - 26 May 2020

Cemtech Live Webinar: Global Cement Market Update – Africa

Global Cement Market Update – Africa   In this session, Cemtech turned to Africa to examine recent cement sector trends in the south, east and west of the continent. It also looked at...
Events - 21 May 2020

Lafarge Africa sees net profit rise 157% in 1Q20

Lafarge Africa has reported a 9.8 per cent increase in net sales to NGN63.97bn (US$178.93m) in its unaudited results for the first quarter of 2020, compared to NGN58.02bn in the year-ago period. N...
News - 20 May 2020

Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe Ltd expects 30% decline in cement volumes in 2Q20

Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe Ltd said business volumes had declined considerably due to low demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The LafargeHolcim subsidiary said the lockdown will have an inevitable im...
News - 18 May 2020

Lafarge Africa provides NGN500m intervention fund to alleviate COVID-19 challenges

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lafarge Africa (LafargeHolcim group) has deployed a NGN500m (US$1.28m) intervention fund to provide medical infrastructure, food and essential medications to ...
News - 07 May 2020