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After years of impressive growth the cement production in Kenya declined in 2023. According to preliminary data 9.516 Mta have been produced in 2023 after 9.754 Mta in 2022, corresponding to a -2.4% YoY decline. The cement capacity utilization declined…
EMC Cement plans to install a carbon-zero 1.2 Mta cement plant in the Port of Amsterdam, Netherlands, together with HES International, a dry bulk handling company. EMC is a supplier of low-carbon cements based on natural volcanics. The all-electric plant…
InterCement Participações informed that during the last few months, the company has received a series of inquiries and expressions of interest in its assets in Brazil and Argentina. The company operates 15 cement plants with 17.2 Mta capacity in Brazil…
The downward trend in the cement production of Poland continues in January 2024 with -25.9%, YoY, to 0.589 Mt, after 0.795 Mt in January 2022.
In 2023, Tunisia’s cement production declined by -2.6% to 7.326 Mta, after 7.520 Mta in 2022. The production increased only in the 2.Q, while in the other quarters there has been a decline, especially in the 1.Q and the 3.Q.…
UAE’s Emirates Steel Arkan (ESA), a leading steel producer in the Middle East region, will use the Magsort technology to use its steel slag at its Al Ain Cement plant (photo). Magsort, a Finnish engineering company, has a proprietary dry…
In 2023, the cement production in Taiwan (ROC) declined by -8.7% to 10.246 Mta, after 11.224 Mta in 2022. The cement capacity utilization declined from 55.6% to 50.7%
In 2023, the cement production in Kyrgyzstan increased by +10.9% to 2.961 Mta, after 2.670 Mta in 2022. The cement plants run almost under full capacity. However, this year a new 1.5 Mta greenfield cement plant by Terek-Tash will become…
French start-up company NeoCem has raised more than €23 m to build a clay calcining plant in Saint-Maximin, in the Oise Department, Picardy region in Northern France. The company, which is a spin-off of Lille’s NeoEco Engineering company, will use…
In the Ukraine, in January 2024 the cement exports declined by -30.3% YoY to 27.22 kt, while the cement imports increased by +13.5 YoY from a very low level to 0.45 kt.