India: Cement producers saw strong sales in the second quarter of the 2026 Fiscal Year (FY2026), due to steady prices and higher sales volumes. Seasonal weakness and maintenance outages did dent ...

India: Adani-led Adani Enterprises has reportedly beaten Vedanta in the race to take over the debt-laden Jaiprakash Associates, despite Vedanta placing the highest overall bid in an electronic auction ...

Cumulative consumption in the first 10 months of 2025 saw growth of 10.9% to reach 13.7Mt, 1.3Mt more than in the first 10 months of 2024. Cement exports in 2025 grew by 6.3% year-on-year to 403,782t.

France/Syria: The former Lafarge CEO Bruno Lafont has taken the witness stand at the start of a hearing that will focus on the alleged financing of the Islamic State in Syria in the early 2010s.

Global: The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has launched its ‘Cement and Concrete Industry Net Zero Action and ...

Türkiye: Nuh Çimento has installed a new electric LPS 420 portal slewing crane from Liebherr at its private port in Hereke to boost efficiency and reduce emissions. The crane has a 124t lifting ...

Blended cement accounts for 73% of production, and India has reportedly begun producing limestone calcined clay cement. Research is also underway into other low-clinker alternatives. According to a ...

Thailand: SCG Cleanergy and US-based Rondo Energy have launched a new 33MWh thermal battery integrated with SCG’s cement plant’s heat recovery system in Saraburi province. The system delivers 2.3MWth ...

UK: Holcim UK has appointed Mohamed Ben Driss Alami as the managing director of its Cement Division. Alami has worked for Holcim and associated companies for 16 years. He started working for Lafarge ...

Brazil: Cimento Apodi said that it has recorded a 20% thermal substitution rate (TSR), avoided 1500t/yr of CO₂ emissions and invested more than US$4.7m in a new 5MW solar park. The producer has ...

Zimbabwe: Bulawayo City Council has cancelled Labenmon Investments’ lease for the construction of a cement grinding plant at Umvumila Industrial Park after the China-based company failed to finalise ...

Sweden: Heidelberg Materials Sweden has said that it will ‘pause’ its carbon capture project at the Slite cement plant in Gotland after the Swedish Energy Agency rejected its application for ...