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A number of 688,640 shares in JK Cement have been sold by Templeton Global Investment Trust's Templeton Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund on the National Stock Exchange of India. Each share was priced at INR 579 (€7.65/US$8.65).

Raysut Cement Company (RCC) of Oman has started to use a new silo with storage capacity of 20,000 tonnes at its factory in Salalah.

The silo has three compartments with capacity of 3,000-12,000tonnes each to hold oil well cement, sulphate-resistant cement and ordinary Portland cement.

It also has two units to load bulk cement at rate of 300 tonnes/hour.

The company plans to complete building a new packing plant with 150tonnes/hour capacity at the silo in the fourth quarter of 2016.

Estonian Betoonimeister, a company, focused on the delivery of high performance ready mixed concrete has reached an agreement to acquire all the assets of TM Betoon, the subsidiary of TMB.

The acquisition is subject to approval by the Competition Authority, and the price of the acquisition is confidential.

The acquisition would facilitate TMB’s target to focus entirely on the manufacture of concrete elements and exit from commercial concrete market.

Betoonimeister said the acquisition would contri

Pakistan's cement exports have declined by 18.98% from 6.08 million tonnes between July 2014 and April 2015 to 4.92 million tonnes from July 2015 to April 2016.

Cement sales in April 2016 grew by 7.81% to 3.55 million tonnes from 3.29 million tonnes in April 2015 while cement exports fell by 18.66% year-on-year (y-o-y) from 0.64 million tonnes to 0.52 million tonnes.

Indonesian cement maker Semen Indonesia has named Rizkan Chandra as its new main director to replace Suparni. The appointment runs from 2015 until 2020.

French cement producer Lafarge has launched Le Praktis, its new cement packaging, a bag that can be introduced entirely in the cement mixer without opening it.

Lafarge worked three years with Swedish packaging specialist Billerudkorsnas to develop the bag, which is made of a new type of paper protected by a humidity-resistant covering.

During the blending, the bag is shredded into invisible microfibres that do not alter the cement characteristics.

It is claimed that the new packaging will reduce th

The Finnish company Lahti Precision is considering construction of a dry mix mortar plant in the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, North Caucasus, Russia.

The company has been offered three locations.

The future plant's capacity is planned at 10tonnes/hour, and some 40 new workplaces will be created at the plant.

The products will be in-demand in Kabardino-Balkaria, since the construction of a number of major facilities, including a new hydrometallurgical plant and a polyethylene terephthalate plant, wi

PRECAST2016, the UK’s largest precast concrete event, sponsored by Trimble Tekla and Tarmac, was a great success, say the organisers.

Over 60 exhibitors showcased their latest products and services in the industry.

The event included a variety of seminars, live demonstrations, and opportunities to network with industry professionals throughout the day.

Over 400 delegates attended the event, which included up-to-date briefings on key topics including Building Information Modelling (BIM); the propos

In January-March 2016, Kazakhstan enterprises produced over 3.06 million tonnes of concrete.

The figure grew by 1.3%, compared with Q1 2015, and by 29.9%, compared with Q1 2014.

Albert Sigei, the COO of East African Portland Cement, has tendered his resignation from the company, it is reported.

Sigei was the vice president of business support and ready-mix operation at Lafarge's branch in Nigeria.