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

Cement manufacturers in Kenya are raising their prices in response to the increase in the mining tax imposed by the Ministry of Mines. On 18 December 2013, Najib Balala, Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Mines, Kenya, announced that the mining tax levied on the cement industry would be adjusted to Kshs 140/t.

2014-01-17

According to the latest data from Vietnam's Ministry of Construction (MoC), cement sales in Vietnam rose 13.9% year-on-year to 61 million tons in 2013, exceeding sales expectations of 7.5%. Among them, the domestic sales volume was 47 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 3.4%; the export volume was 14 million tons, with an increase of 6 million tons over the same period last year; the cement output reached nearly 70 million tons.

2014-01-14

With GDP growth of 5% in fiscal year 2012-2013 and India's urban population set to double from 290 million in 2001 to 590 million by 2030, opportunities in the construction sector can be imagined. The development of the construction sector will inevitably lead to the growth of cement demand, and India's cement demand will have a huge room for growth.

2013-10-30