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Nigeria-based Dangote Cement has launched its largest promotion in Nigeria.

The cement producers will give NGN 300 million (€1.4 million/US$1.51 million) cash to its customers in the latest promotion.

For 90 days, 180 lucky winners will win two prizes of NGN 1 million every day, and one lucky winner will win NGN 30 million every month.

Customers will need to purchase one bag of cement to be part of the promotion. They will be required to cut out the token at the top right of the bag.

The cust

The Ibeto Cement Company has signed a contract worth US$386 million with Sinoma International Engineering for a major cement project in Nigeria.

Sinoma, China National Materials Company’s Shanghai-listed subsidiary, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zhejiang Sinoma Engineering Design & Research Institute and is contracted for a 6,000tonnes/day clinker line and 45MW self-generation power plant.

The company says in a corporate notice that the cement plant will be located at Enugu State, south-eastern part

Aggregates markets in Great Britain are forecast to get back to the levels seen in 2007 by 2020. Currently, demand is nearly 20% lower than ten years ago.
These are some of the conclusions of a new BDS report on the aggregates industry entitled ‘The Primary Aggregates Producing Industry in Great Britain – Its Structure, Markets and Prospects.
Author of the report, Andy Sales says: “The aggregates industry can expect encouraging market growth for the next few years. Yet by 2020, this will only bring the i

The national infrastructure development is believed to have boosted cement sales in Indonesia since August 2015.

Out of the overall bulk cement sale, some 50% is for national infrastructure development, according to Semen Indonesia's managing director Suparn, who also believes that until the end of 2015 the cement sale increase is set to be between 2% and 3% year-on-year.

A 17.8% hike has been seen in the national cement consumption starting in August 2015, and additionally, the demand for both Septem

Jordan-listed Northern Cement Company has registered a 24.15% drop in its profits in the January to June 2015 period to JOD 7.42 million (€9.74 million/US$10.48 million).

The cement company has recorded a 22.7% decline in its profit in the January to September 2015 period from JOD 14.1 million in the same period in 2014, to JOD 10.9 million.

Following the merger between their respective parent organisations, cement manufacturers Holcim Vietnam and Lafarge Vietnam have merged, with the transaction set to complete in 2015.

The arrangement will help LafargeHolcim to optimise the production with respect to oversupply- a challenge currently encountered by many local cement producers.

Lafarge Vietnam accounts for 12% market share in Vietnam, while Holcim Vietnam accounts for 26% share, with their main products being concrete, cement and aggreg

Net consolidated profits of Spanish cement firm Cementos Molins increased by 37.6% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2015 to €41.9 million due to the good trading of its international operations, especially in Mexico and Argentina.

Although the Spanish subsidiary has registered an improvement in results, it is still posting negative net profits, while profits of the international divisions increased by 7.5% to €51 million. At the same time, net consolidated revenues went up by 21.8% to €473 mill