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Huaxin buys African cement assets from Intercement

Natal Simuna Plant1

Intercement announced the divestment of its cement assets in Mozambique and South Africa to Chinese Huaxin Cement. The assets include 3.3 Mta cement capacity from 2 integrated and 3 grinding plants in Mozambique as well as 2.0 Mta capacity from…

Uzbekistan’s cement production growth halved

Uzbekistan Pro 11m 2023

In Uzbekistan, from January to November 2023, the accumulated cement production increased by +2.5% to 11.168 Mt, YoY. Data cover the production by large enterprises. However, in the last 3 months only 3.140 Mt cement were produced after 3.398 Mt,…

Construction of Dangote’s Itori cement plant started

Dangote Itori Foundation

Sinoma International Engineering started the construction of Dangote’s cement plant in Itori, Ogun State in Nigeria with the celebration of the pile foundation. The integrated cement plant is designed with 2 x 6000 tpd kiln capacity, which will increase Dangote’s…

Cement prices in Russia will increase in 2024

Moskow Kreml

In Russia in October 2023, the average price for Portland cement stood at about 5935 Rub/t (64.73 US$/t), excl. VAT. However, in the Federal districts the prices are very different. While they were 4692 Rub/t in the North-West district, they…

Chile’s cement dispatch declined by -11.9%

Chile Disp 10m 2023

In Chile, from January to October 2023 the accumulated cement dispatch declined by -11.9% to 4.316 Mt, after 4.899 Mt in the same period last year. In October with a dispatch of 0.425 Mt the decline has been -12.4%, after…

CemVision will supply its first low-carbon cement

CemVision

CemVision from Sweden has signed a contract with LKAB Minerals for its first low carbon cement ‘Re-ment’. This product consists of two recycled cement binders from industrial waste and avoids most of the CO2 from the traditional cement production, but…