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LafargeHolcim is pulling out of Sri Lanka's cement business.

A company spokesperson is reported by national media saying Holcim Lanka will be sold as part of a larger global divestment strategy.

Holcim Lanka owns Sri Lanka’s only integrated plant that produces cement from domestic limestone. The company also has an imported clinker grinding plant, and a bagging plant using foreign-made cement.

A number of Sri Lanka-based companies are thought to be considering acquiring the business, including a

Algerian cement firm Gica has reportedly signed two agreements with Chinese company Cmbi, a subsidiary of the Sinoma group.

The agreements will see the building of a new DZD 34 billion (US$308.04 million) 1 million tonnes/year cement plant in Bechar. Operational in 2018, the plant will be held by Société Saoura Ciment (SSC), a Gica subsidiary. A new DZD 38 billion (US$342.76 million) production line is also to be created on the Zahana cement plant, held by Société des ciments de Zahana (Sciz). Due to be

The first quarter of 2016 marked the 13th consecutive quarter that US construction equipment exports experienced year-over-year declines.
Exports of US-made construction equipment declined 25% overall during the first quarter of 2016 compared to first quarter 2015 with a total US$2.7 billion shipped to global markets.
Africa and South America experienced the sharpest declines, each down nearly 50%, while Central America exports were stable and Europe gained slightly, according to the Association of Equipm

Aggregates demand in the Middle East is good but not exceptional – with huge spending on some major commercial and sporting infrastructure, partly negated by world oil price crisis-led postponements or cancellations of mega projects. Guy Woodford reports

There’s serious money in the Middle East, but not all of it, due to a number of different factors including plummeting oil prices, is being released for aggregate-hungry flagship building projects.

Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe is continuing to expand its German dealer network with the appointment of Thomas Baumaschinen. The company will improve the servicing of the manufacturer’s customers in the western North Rhine-Westphalia region of the country.

Established in 2006, Thomas Baumaschinen offers a range of construction solutions to its customers including sales and rental of a wide range of machinery, maintenance, repairs and financial services, and has a large range of spare parts on-sit

The Angolan Technical Department for Private Investment (UTIP) has signed an agreement with Chinese company Shaanxi Aoxinang.

It involves the installation of a concrete production plant in Luanda with an investment estimated at US$1 million (€899,979.11).

It is said that the plant, with a capacity of 40,000m³ of concrete, will initially produce some 21,200m³, and will create 140 jobs.

In Nepal, which has 40 cement factories, cement producers are said to be looking at ways of obtaining self-sufficiency.

The producers, seeking help to improve extraction and transport of the necessary raw materials such as better infrastructure and a stable electricity supply, also want to boost exports.

The high cost of limestone imports is said to make cement produced in Nepal uncompetitive compared to Indian products.

Nepalese government backing could help producers meet domestic demand and also

Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Nigerian Minister of Science & Technology, says that research is being conducted to look at cement production for use in concrete road construction.

Because of the way some roads constructed, the asphalt used gets damaged, and production of indigenous cement for roads has become a necessity, the Minister is reported as saying.

The government has asked the Nigerian Building & Road Research Institute to start research on concrete.

The Algerian Minister for Industry and the Mines, Abdessalem Bouchouareb, claims the country will be self-sufficient in cement by the end of 2016.

The country’s cement consumption is now 22 million tonnes, and a number of projects will see the production of an extra 4 million tonnes of cement, which will remove the need for imports.

These include the commissioning of two new cement plants at Béchar run by Société Saoura ciment (SSC), a subsidiary of GICA (Groupe Industriel des Ciments d'Algérie, an Al

EDGE Innovate is to premiere its new MC1400 track material classifier alongside its TRM516 mobile trommel and Slayer XL slow-speed shredder at Hillhead 2016.

The company says that the MC1400 offers the ability to extract impurities from highly contaminated material in one pass. It utilises controlled air flow as a separation medium, and allows operators to separate up to four different fractions as standard; lights (plastic, paper, film); mid-weight (wood), and heavy fractions (aggregate and glass).

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Metso's official distributor in the UK, Garriock Bros, will present a series of Lokotrack plants at Hillhead 2016.

The Lokotrack LT106 and LT120 mobile jaw crushing plants; the LT300HP mobile cone crushing, and the LT1213 mobile impact crushing plant, will be presented.

The Lokotrack LT106, in the 40tonne class, is equipped with the Nordberg C106 jaw crusher, and new features include a radial side conveyor; high inertia flywheels, and Metso IC process control system that utilises an ultrasonic materia

Lafarge is reported as saying that five bidders have been shortlisted by for the divestment of its assets in India.

By the end of July 2016 it is expected that the bidders will make binding offers for the Lafarge cement facility assets in India at Rajasthan, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The facilities have a total annual capacity of 11 million tonnes.

Those reported as having an interest in bidding are Indian companies Nirma Group, Piramal Enterprises and JSW Cement along with An

With mobile equipment becoming more and more sophisticated and increasingly capable of processing aggregates in large volumes, there has been a definite shift to the use of bigger and bigger pieces of mobile machinery. How is the industry adapting to mobile, semi-mobile or portable plants? As markets change and mature, sometimes the products that are required no longer match the output that fixed plants were designed to deliver. Equally in an uncertain and increasingly volatile global economy where volume d

With innovations like the patented Duplex system, the patented double functional return belt or the unique Hybrid Crusher,

Rockster Recycler and its UK dealer International Crusher Solutions, will present crushing and screening solutions at Hillhead 2016.

The Rockster R900 impact crusher, including the RS83 screenbox and RB75 return belt, will be in action crushing demolition debris to a size of 0-22mm.

Based on a full hydraulic model, the mobile track-mounted impact crusher R900 is equipped with

South Korea’s Eugene Group, which supplies ready mixed concrete, has acquired a stake of just over 10% in rival Tongyang for a reported KRW 97.2 billion (€73.70 million/US$81.89 million).

The acquisition, which makes Eugene the biggest single shareholder in Tongyang, was from Pine Tree Investment and Management, a local private equity company.

CMPRO, the Russian Cement Association, is reported as saying that the output of cement in the country has fallen by 18% to 8.86 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2016, compared to the same quarter in 2015.

A reduction in construction is blamed on a drop in an 18% drop in sales of cement.

Dangote Cement of Nigeria is reported as planning to spend some US$100 million in Ghana.

At Takoradi, plans to build a new cement grinding plant and power station, with completion by the end 2017, will see the company capable of producing 1.5 million tonnes of cement/year to meet local and West African demand.

The US $40 billion Giant Sea Wall in the Indonesian capital Jakarta is aimed at improving flood defences and enhancing urban development.

Officially called the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development (NCICD) master plan, the scheme is in the bay north pf the capital.

It is reported that Nantapong Chantrakul, the country director for Siam Cement Group (SCG) Indonesia, says the cement company is looking to supply material to the project, a joint project between Indonesia and the Netherlands.

Zoomlion has ended its big money bid to acquire Terex Corporation. In a statement to customers, Ken Lousberg, Terex Cranes president, said that discussions between the two construction equipment industry heavyweights over a near US$3.4 billion deal had been terminated. Lousberg said the recently announced sale of Terex Corporation’s Material Handling and Port Solutions business segment to Finland-based Konecranes for around $1.3 billion is proceeding as planned, subject to regulatory and Konecranes shareho

Federcostruzioni and Veronafiere have joined forces to support growth in the Italian earthmoving and construction equipment sector through their joint promotion of the Samoter 2017 exhibition. Confindustria-affiliated Federcostruzioni is a key champion of the Italian construction sector and Veronafiere organises the Samoter trade fair, Italy’s only exhibition covering all construction machinery sectors, staged every three years. The pair have signed a cooperation agreement ahead of the next Samoter event s