January 7, 2015
Metso has concluded the study related to Tampere, Finland, foundry announced in 2013. As a result Metso will divest the Tampere foundry to a Finnish…
January 7, 2015
The Tamil Nadu state government has introduced a subsidised cement scheme dubbed Amma Cement, which will be priced at US$3 (INR 190) per 50kg bag.…
January 7, 2015
Ethiopia's Ministry of Industry has unveiled a draft Cement Industry Development Strategy prepared by Adama Science and Technology University.…
January 7, 2015
Malabar Cements (MCL) of India plans to import 1.32 million tonnes of limestone, sand, clinker, coal and other materials for production after the…
January 7, 2015
Turkish cement firm Sancim Bilecik Cimento (Sancim) has been acquired by Askale Cimento. The acquisition follows the recently aborted acquisition of…
January 6, 2015
HeidelbergCement is to sell its brick and roof-tile business to private equity firm Lone Star Funds for €1.17 billion (US$1.4 billion), as it looks…
January 6, 2015
Bruno Lafont will be CEO of the new company created by the multi-billion euro merger of Lafarge and Holcim. The naming of Lafont and the rest of the…
January 6, 2015
CEMEX says it has closed a series of transactions with Holcim, originally announced on August 28, 2013 and supplemented on October 30, 2014. The…
January 5, 2015
Six Kenyan cement producers have raised output from 4,637,081 metric tonnes in the first 11 months of 2013 to 5,208,934 metric tonnes during the same…
January 5, 2015
A strike at Chakrey Ting Cement factory in Cambodia's Kampot province ended on 31 December 2014 after workers agreed to go back to work. Nearly half…
January 5, 2015
Pakistan’s cement producers have revised down their products’ prices in line with failing international oil prices, with Dewan Cement and Bestway…
January 5, 2015
Pioneering carbon negative aggregate specialist Carbon8 Aggregates is set to more than double production after gaining planning permission to build a…
December 18, 2014
Germany-based cement sector companies such as Loesche and ThyssenKrupp are offering their eco-friendly technology in Vietnam. Loesche, which operates…
December 18, 2014
Financial analyst Darryll Castle is the new CEO of South African cement manufacturer PPC, effective 12 January 2015. Castle was previously COO of…
December 18, 2014
HeidelbergCement, the German building materials producer, has restarted cement milling operations at its plant near Donetsk in Ukraine. The company…