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Buzzi Unicem defends itself against defamatory campaign

13 March 2023, Published under Cement News

Buzzi Unicem has refuted allegations against its reputation with a company statement issued on 10 March 2023. “We are aware of a defamatory campaign against Buzzi Unicem which has been launched since the beginning of February, aiming to undermine the company’s reputation. The dissemination of the contents has been taking place through posts on social networks and/or direct messages,” said the company statement. The defamatory comments claim that Buzzi Unicem SpA, a company domiciled in ...

Bedeschi opens materials handling excellence centre

07 March 2023, Published under Cement News

Bedeschi SpA is excited to announce the opening of the new Bedeschi materials handling excellence centre in Germany. This centre enriches the company’s already strong engineering backbone in Italy and will focus on the fields of port handling, stockyard equipment and wagon unloading. Dr Reza Poorvash will act as the CEO of the new subsidiary based in Saarbrücken, Germany. Together with the recently-established Australian branch, Bedeschi keeps increasing its know-how in engineerin...

Buzzi Unicem posts 16% rise in consolidated net sales in FY22

10 February 2023, Published under Cement News

Buzzi Unicem reports consolidated net sales at EUR3996m in FY22, up 16 per cent from EUR3446m in FY2021, also on LfL basis a rise of 9.6 per cent. Cement sales in Brazil and Russia helped the multinationals improved performance.  Cement sales of the group amounted to 28.3Mt, decreasing by 9.2 per cent compared to 31.2Mt in 2021. Ready-mix concrete output, equal to 11.5Mm 3 , was also down compared to the 12.1Mm3 volumes of last year (-5.2 per cent). The positive price effect more than o...

Italy’s cement output declines 10% in November

03 February 2023, Published under Cement News

Italian cement production fell by 10 per cent YoY in November 2022, according to the country’s construction chamber, Federbeton. When compared with the 2015 base index production the value declined from 102 in October to 85 in November. Cement prices in November 2022 increased MoM to 212 when compared with the base year of 2015 (=100). Federbeton also reported a 69 per cent increase when compared with November 2022. External trade Grey cement imports in October were up by 34 per cent whe...

Cementir appoints new CFO

26 January 2023, Published under Cement News

Cementir Holding NV  has announced that Roberto Marazza will be appointed group chief financial officer with effect from 15 March 2023. Mr Marazza graduated from Genoa University before starting his career at IBM as accounting manager. Subsequent roles include CFO for fuel and energy, and renewable energy companies such as Total ERG and Italiana Petroli (API Group).

Italcementi is moving its HQ and embracing new brand name

20 January 2023, Published under Cement News

Italcementi  is moving its executive offices in Italy from the Kilometro Rosso district in Bergamo to the Milan metropolitan area and preparing to embrace the new global ‘ Heidelberg Materials ’   brand.  “In an increasingly global world,” explains Roberto Callieri, CEO of Italcementi, “an ambitious company must have the foresight to make important choices for its future, such as that of getting even closer to the most important economic centre of our country and like that of adopting ...

Holcim acquires NICEM

10 January 2023, Published under Cement News

Holcim has acquired Nicem srl, a leader in ground calcium carbonate based near Bergamo, Italy. Calcium carbonate is a highly versatile, low-carbon raw material that is useful for a broad range of applications. Nicem’s customer base spans industries from construction to plastic, rubber and paints. With this acquisition, Nicem’s low-emission raw materials will accelerate the green formulation of Holcim’s sustainable building solutions, from ECOPact to ECOPlanet. Miljan Gutovic, Holcim Regio...

Italy sees 5% reduction in cement output in October

03 January 2023, Published under Cement News

Italian cement production fell by five per cent YoY in October 2022, according to the country’s construction chamber, Federbeton. When compared with the 2015 base index production the value increased from 96 in August to 102 per cent in October. Cement prices in October increased MoM to 197 when compared with the base year of 2015 (=100). However, they saw a 57 per cent increase when compared with October 2021. External trade Grey cement imports in September increased by 33 per cent when...

Buzzi Unicem modifies corporate structure

15 December 2022, Published under Cement News

Buzzi Unicem’s corporate revision project, which had already been approved by the Board of Directors and communicated on 3 August 2022 and 8 November 2022, has been implemented. The project provides for the contribution in kind of the business unit relating to the cement operations in Italy in favour of Buzzi Unicem Srl, whose share capital is held entirely and directly by Buzzi Unicem SpA. The project, within the scope of consolidation, aims to make the corporate structure of Buzzi Unice...

Italian cement output down 4% in September

02 December 2022, Published under Cement News

Italy’s cement production declined by four per cent YoY in September 2022, according to the country’s construction chamber, Federbeton. When compared with the 2015 base index production the value increased from 61 in August to 96 per cent in September. Cement prices remained stable MoM at 189 when compared with the base year of 2015 (=100). However, they saw a 49 per cent increase when compared with September 2021. Grey cement imports in August increased by six per cent when compared with ...