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Data from the Department of Building Materials of Vietnam showed that demand for cement and clinkers reached 24 million tonnes as of year-to-date (up by 15% year-on-year), while cement production for 2016 is projected to reach a range of 75 million to 77 million tonnes.

The department noted that cement prices remain stable despite the demand surge, which is attributed to the recovery of the property market.

Demand for cement from the local market rose 17% to 6.07 million tonnes in April 2016 compared

Indonesian cement company Indocement Tunggal Prakasa (Indocement) plans to appeal the decision by the Semarang Administrative Court revoking its permit to develop a cement plant in Pati, Central Java.

The appeal will be submitted at the Surabaya High Court.

The public protested against the construction of the cement plant for fear of environmental damages including difficulty in accessing clean water as well as danger of flood.

Indocement has spent nine years conducting studies as well as processi

Russia’s Pervaya Nerudnaya Kompaniya (PNK) will independently mine crushed stone at the Gavrilovo crushed stone quarry in the Leningrad region.

In the last ten years, the facility has been leased and developed by Semiozerskoe Karyeroupravlenie of the Technostrom group (TSM Group).

It is reported that after PNK refused to extend the leasing agreement, Technostrom's plant that accounted for some 9-17% of the regional crushed stone market, was closed.

According to experts, PNK expects to supply crushe

The Daniel group is acquiring three Lafarge sites in south-western France.

The Baudreix-Mirepeix site comprises an alluvial gravel quarry and a concrete plant. The quarry produces 200,000tonnes of aggregates/year.

At Louvie-Juzon, an open pit limestone quarry, 350,000tonnes of aggregates/year areproduced, while the third acquisition targets a concrete plant.

These purchases add to the offer of the construction material specialist, which aims to broaden its target clientele.

With these acquisitio

According to a study of Informa D&B, the sales of cement in the Portugal rose in 2015 by 6.3% to 2.6 million tonnes, and in value sales in Portugal rose by €10 million to €220 million, while exports stood at €147 million.

Cement was mainly shipped to North Africa and African Portuguese speaking countries and in total 58% of the cement exported by Portugal in 2015 was shipped to Algeria.

Gary Schutz, the president of Holcim Indonesia, is reported as saying that the cement company has reported cement sales of 2.67 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2016, up 41% from a year ago.

Sales grew by 24% to IDR 2.45 trillion (€161.95 million/US$184.38 million).

National demand for cement grew by 4% during the quarter.

The company is projecting that cement sales will grow by 5% in 2016 to 63 million tonnes/year.

Following the acquisition of Lafarge Cement Indonesia, the company has in

Yi Ju Hwan has been elected as president of the Korea Cement Association.

He currently serves as CEO of Hyundai Cement.

In its regulatory filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) of India, UltraTech Cement has announced that it has secured permission from its board to raise its Registered Foreign Portfolio Investor (RFPI) limit from 24% to 30%.

The increase in the limit by the local company is subject to approval from board members at the yearly general meeting scheduled for July 2016.

In August 2016, a gravel storage facility owned by Goldsun Group is expected to be completed and operational.

Located in Port of Taipei, the storage facility is designed with a storage capacity of up to 135,000tonnes.

It has eight freight exits, which allow eight gravel trucks to transport gravel.

The environment of the storage facility is clean, and its transport efficiency is high.

The new storage facility will help increase productivity, said the Goldsun Group.

The aggregates sector in Catalonia, Spain, has reported turnover of €100 million in 2015, after increasing production 2% on a year earlier to 22 million tonnes.

The bulk of the opencast mining industry production relates to aggregates, which are used for infrastructure, housing, shopping centres and industrial estates.

There was still a drop of 72.4% since the maximums seen in 2005, with the drop being even bigger when it came to turnover, as the price per tonne since 2005 has been dropping.

The

Tough economic conditions across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region have meant difficult times for construction and mining equipment manufacturers, says Clement Cheong, Terex Trucks’ sales & marketing director – Region APAC.

And while a full recovery remains a distant prospect, opportunities for growth do exist.

Global tyre manufacturer BKT says it achieved “great success” at the recent bauma event in Munich, Germany.

This, says the company, is among others, the result of an extensive and effective marketing campaign that “definitely enhances the brand awareness, contributes to increase market share as well as to intensify ties with distributors and to raise final users’ level of confidence in BKT products.”

At bauma BKT launched its new giant tyre, the Earthmax SR 45 Plus, and said that the event also attest

FLSmidth and GE, a leader in the Industrial Internet, have joined forces to create digital solutions for increasing productivity in the cement and minerals industries.

The companies says that the new solutions developed on GE's cloud-based Predix platform will leverage FLSmidth's expertise in cement and minerals processing and GE's Industrial Internet of Things capabilities to maximise the potential of connected equipment units, helping the cement and mining industry to increase productivity.

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Housing is, rightly, the new London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s top priority, says the UK’s Mineral Products Association (MPA).

It points out that delivery of much-needed new housing and infrastructure depends on a steady and adequate supply of construction aggregates and other essential mineral products such as concrete blocks and mortar.

Wharves and rail depots play a key role in this, enabling the sustainable supply of bulk materials by rail and ship, delivering close to the market, significantly reducing t

LiuGong’s first overseas school training centre cooperation has opened in Casablanca, Morocco.

Part of OFPPT, which is the short name for Morocco Vocational Training and Labour Council, the school was founded to meet the needs of its national human development strategy and it is a national training institution set up by the Moroccan government, and supplies free professional training for more than 110,000 students each year.

LiuGong says that the establishment and operation of this institution has a s

Caterpillar is to build a Regional Training Centre for the African and Middle East Region (AME) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The centre will offer hands-on machines and power systems technical and sales training to Caterpillar’s dealers and customers in the AME region.

At an investment of more than US$7 million, the approximately 1,700m² centre will employ about 40 people, mostly high-level technical staff who will primarily be recruited from the region.

The more-than 7,000 technicians at AME Ca

Metso has been awarded first place in the Best Performance Supplier category in the Mineral Processing segment in Chile.

This is according to the results of the fifth Ranking of Suppliers of the Mining Industry made by Phibrand, a company specialising in industry marketing, in conjunction with the Ministry of Mining, Industrial Suppliers Association of Mining (Aprimin); National Mining Society (SONAMI); Association of Engineering Consultants (AIC), and editorial group EDITEC, a leading publisher of the m

Maple Leaf Cement reported a growth of 28% in net profit to PKR 1.16 billion (€9.85 million US$11.07 million) in the January-March quarter of 2016. Its previous corresponding quarter's net profit was at PKR 911 million.

Lafarge is relying on its diversification strategy in order to boost its revenue in Morocco.

It is now said to offer five different families of products as part of its range of cement bags: Dwam, L' billioni, Swari, Prefa and Martoub. Lafarge is focusing its marketing strategy on its flagship Dwam 55 product, a grey cement for works foundations, especially in coastal areas.

The group aims to sell 100,000tonnes of Dwam 55 by late 2016.

Cement sales have grown by 7.9% in February 2016 year-on-year, a

Cement manufacturing in Pakistan is running at 95% capacity utilisation as of March 2016 due to strong import growth, says Muhammad Ali Tabba, chairman of the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA).

Cement makers have been increasing capacity regularly, with an additional 26,000tonnes/day to become available once DG Khan Cement, Lucky Cement, Cherat Cement Company, and Attock Cement complete their expansions.

Other major producers are also undertaking expansion projects.

Tabba is re