Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC) has struck a deal to take control of the Türkiye and Portugal-based parts of OYAK’s cement business. The arrangement will see TCC grow its share of the joint-venture business in Türkiye to 60% from 40% at present and it will fully take over the Cimpor joint-venture in Portugal by purchasing OYAK’s […]
Companies are finding more environmentally friendly ways to make cement, which accounts for about a twelfth of global carbon dioxide emissions, making it worse for the climate than flying.Now they have to convince builders that their climate-friendly cement will hold just as well as the conventional stuff.An Oakland-based company called Brimstone broke through that hurdle. […]
Pakistan: Fauji Cement inaugurated its Shadan Lund cement plant in Dera Ghazi Khan on 30 November 2023. The Pakistan Observer newspaper has reported that the plant has a capacity of 2.37Mt/yr and brings Fauji Cement’s capacity to 10.6Mt/yr. source
In the industrial world, cement is about as omnipresent as materials get. But despite its clear and obvious utility, cement is responsible for some 8% of global CO2 emissions — if it was a country, it would be third biggest emitter globally, by some estimations.While cement’s ubiquity comes largely down to how easy it is […]
Thailand: Siam Cement Group (SCG) recorded sales of US$3.62bn during the third quarter of 2023. This represents a fall of 12% year-on-year. Business World News has reported that the producer attributes the decline to the on-going ‘slow economic revival’ in Southeast Asia. Nonetheless, chief executive officer Roongrote Rangsiyopash said that he expects growth to accelerate, […]
India: Shree Cement has announced four planned capacity expansion projects that aim to increase its installed cement production capacity by 20% to 55.9Mt/yr. The Telegraph newspaper has reported that the producer expects to invest US$670 – 730m in the expansion. The investments will go towards the establishment of new facilities in Karnataka, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh […]
Bolivia: The Bolivian Attorney General’s Office says that is open to meeting representatives of Sociedad Boliviana de Cemento (SOBOCE) in order to negotiate a ‘better arrangement’ following Bolivia’s nationalisation of a stake in SOBOCE subsidiary Fábrica Nacional de Cementos (FANCESA) by supreme decree in 2010. SOBOCE owes FANCESA US$108m in damages for unfair competition since […]
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Europe: Germany-based Heidelberg Materials has announced the launch of evoZero carbon captured net zero cement. The company produces evoZero cement at its Brevik cement plant in Norway. It says that this is the first cement to achieve net zero CO2 emissions through the use of carbon capture and storage (CCUS), without relying on other methods […]
US: Heidelberg Materials North America has inaugurated the Port Canaveral slag cement plant and terminal in Florida, following an expansion. MENAFN News has reported that the producer invested US$24m in the installation of a new roller press at the facility.Heidelberg Materials North America said “Heidelberg Materials’ investment in the Port Canaveral slag cement facility is […]
