The World Cup in Brazil is about to begin, the 12 stadiums for the competition are ready, and the growth of domestic demand for cement in Brazil has also declined. According to preliminary data released by the Brazilian National Cement Industry Association (SNIC), Brazil's cement sales in its domestic market totaled nearly 5.9 million tons in May 2014, a slight decrease of 0.7% compared with the same period last year.

2014-06-11

Recently, the European Commission has unconditionally approved Holcim's acquisition of Cemex West, an asset of Cemex in Germany, after a two-stage review.

2014-06-09

Lafarge, a French cement producer, plans to merge its operations in Nigeria and South Africa to create Lafarge Africa. It is reported that Lafarge Group will control 73% of the shares of Lafarge Africa and will remain listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

2014-06-05

According to local media reports, Pakistan may increase the federal consumption tax on cement by 100 Pakistani rupees per ton in the upcoming budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year.

2014-06-03

Recently, Cade, Brazil's anti-monopoly agency, has decided to impose a fine of $1.4 billion on companies that monopolize cement prices in Brazil and require them to re-dispose of their assets.

2014-05-30

In 2012, when Italian Cement merged its business in China into Western Cement and became a shareholder of Western Cement, many people thought that Italian Cement had withdrawn from the Chinese market, but in fact it was not. Dr. Ma Weiping, President of Italian Cement China, told reporters that Italian Cement cooperated with local cement plants in China. We will continue to focus on our business market in China.

2014-05-23

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to China on May 20. During the talks in Shanghai, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed a series of issues on the bilateral agenda and witnessed the signing of a series of important documents in the fields of economy, trade, energy and humanities. Among them are a series of contracts signed by European Cement Group, a Russian cement giant, with several Chinese enterprises, including equipment supply, engineering, installation supervision and staff training services, with a total price of more than 500 million US dollars.

2014-05-23

It is reported that Lafarge may be punished by the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) for price monopoly. CAK has accused Lafarge of alleged price-fixing in Kenya's cement market because of its large stakes in Kenya's East African Portland Cement Company (EAPCC) and Bamburi Cement Company.

2014-05-21

Olusegun Aganga of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment of Nigeria recently announced that the new national cement standard has been completed. After a grace period, both domestic and imported cement must comply with the standard and will be labeled "NlS 444-1".

2014-05-19

According to a comprehensive report by Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, the sovereignty dispute between China and Vietnam over the South China Sea has triggered large-scale anti-China riots in Vietnam. Nearly 5,000 people took to the streets in Vietnam's Binh Duong province yesterday, severely impacting more than 1,000 Taiwan-funded enterprises and injuring at least three Taiwanese businessmen. Among them, Taiwan's Happy Cement Co., Ltd. also has more cement business in Vietnam, because the two cement enterprises of Happy Cement in Vietnam are not in the riot demonstration area, their cement plants may not be affected by the riots.

2014-05-15

On April 26, the new cement clinker production line of Inner Mongolia Century Hengsheng Mining Co., Ltd. with a daily output of 5000 tons was formally completed and put into operation.

2014-05-07

Based on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the Qatari government plans to invest $208 billion in infrastructure development from 2013 to 2018. In 2014, the Qatari government is expected to spend nearly $50 billion on investment in construction projects, up 15% from the same period in 2013.

2014-04-23

Turkish cement companies have expressed interest in the merger opportunities arising from the planned merger of France's Lafarge Group and Switzerland's Holcim Group to create the world's largest cement company.

2014-04-18

"Resolutely declaring war on pollution" opens up a new situation for air pollution control. Reporters learned from the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau that the environmental protection departments of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Shandong have proposed to break the boundaries of administrative divisions and jointly control haze.

2014-03-12

In recent years, Finnish Steel Roach's wear-resistant products in China have been expanding their business in the cement industry to meet the needs of key parts such as cement vertical mills, ball mills and grate coolers. Good wine is not afraid of deep lanes, with excellent product quality, Roach products have entered Jidong, and began trial in a subsidiary of Conch.

2014-03-10

In order to alleviate domestic overcapacity, sluggish demand and severe market situation, Vietnam's cement producers will give priority to exports in 2014. It is estimated that the excess capacity will reach 8 to 12 million tons in 2014.

2014-02-14

In 2013, Italcementi's turnover fell by 5.4% year-on-year to 4,235.4 million euros, but only by 2.2% year-on-year on a comparable basis. Among them, the turnover of cement and clinker decreased by 6.4% to 2.7168 billion euros, the turnover of concrete and aggregate decreased by 2.5% to 1.2487 billion euros, and the sales of other businesses of the Group decreased by 8.5% to 269.9 million euros.

2014-02-11

This time, Tangshan Jidong Equipment Engineering Co., Ltd. and Weimeng Manufacturing Co., Ltd. of the United States will carry out extensive cooperation in the procurement, production and mining technology of non-blasting mining equipment. The cooperation between the two sides is that the non-blasting mining equipment is suitable for open-pit mining without the use of explosives, which completely changes the traditional explosive blasting mining method, greatly improves the safety of mining, effectively reduces the dust of mining and improves the efficiency of ore mining. The prospect of this cooperation between the two sides will strongly promote the progress of cement mining technology and the upgrading of mining equipment manufacturing industry.

2014-02-07