May 5, 2016
The government of Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea, plans to start the PGK 1 billion (€284.64 million/US$319.74 million) Chimbu limestone project…
May 5, 2016
The Indonesia Cement Association (ASI) has predicted the cement demand in Indonesia will increase by 5% from 2015 to 63 million tonnes in 2016.…
May 4, 2016
UK Mineral Products Association (MPA) sales of mineral products in the first-quarter of 2016 are said to provide hard evidence that recent…
May 4, 2016
According to the Spanish association Anefhop, in 2015, production of concrete in the country increased by 2.7% on the previous year to 16.363 million…
May 4, 2016
Lafarge intends to further increase its replacement rate of fossil energies on the biggest cement plant in France at Saint-Pierre-la-Cour. The…
May 4, 2016
German building materials company HeidelbergCement has announced a project for sustainable cement making at its Lixhe facility in Belgium. The…
May 4, 2016
Turkish Sabanci Holding has merged its industry group and cement group departments. The new department is now named the Industry Group and the head…
May 3, 2016
After recording a loss of US$1.9 million (€1.69 million) in 2015, Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe hopes to return to profitability in 2016. It is reported…
May 3, 2016
For the first-quarter ended 31 March, 2016, Nigeria’s Dangote Cement recorded a 22.3% decline in net profit to NGN 54.4 billion (€243.17 million/US$…
May 3, 2016
Metso has entered into a five-year, long-term strategic services partnership agreement with Tata Chemicals (Soda Ash) Partners to repair, rebuild,…
May 3, 2016
Sandvik has launched SanRemo for Crushers, a system the company says builds on Sandvik’s highly successful ASRi automation system. Adding a wide…
May 3, 2016
The government of Jammu and Kashmir, India, has issued a directive to all departments in the state to only purchase cement from Jammu and Kashmir…
May 3, 2016
Cemex has reached an agreement in principle for the sale of certain assets in the US to Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) for US$400 million. The…
May 3, 2016
Holcim Mexico, subsidiary of Swiss global building materials and aggregates group LafargeHolcim, has reorganised its commercial operation into four…
April 29, 2016
Spanish cement company Cementos Molins will invest US$189 million (€168.25 million) creating 130 new direct jobs in Argentina. Xavier Molins, the…