Brazil: Brazil’s antitrust watchdog Cade has decided to end its investigation into 18 companies from the cement sector over alleged anti-competition practices. The allegations were that...
Bangladesh: The government-owned Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia’s Al Rajhi Group to build a new production line...
Mozambique: President Filipe Nyusi has inaugurated a new $24 million cement grinding plant in Metuge, Cabo Delgado. The plant has a production capacity of 0.25 MT/yr....
Pakistan: Fecto Cement has appealed to the Islamabad High Court to allow it to continue mining in the Margalla Hills. In August 2016, it had its...
Taiwan Cement has announced that it will be increasing its prices of cement products in China by as much as 7 per cent by the end...
Ethiopia: According to multiple sources, protesters have attacked and vandalised a Dangote cement factory in Oromiya, one of the nine ethnically based regional states of Ethiopia....
Terrorist outfit Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been falling back on cement to pays its bills. Cement represented 4 per cent of its...
Italy: HeidelbergCement, the sole shareholder of Italcementi, has appointed a new board of directors for its subsidiary at a shareholder meeting on 19 October 2016. The...
Mexico: Cemex’s net sales have fallen by 2 per cent year-on-year to $10.5 billion in the first nine months of 2016 from $10.7 billion in the...
The Dangote Group and Dangote Cement Plc have sacked 48 employees due to the current economic crisis. The affected employees include 36 expatriates and 12 Nigerians...
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