India’s UltraTech Cement was ranked 8th in the Global Sectoral Ranking of the S&P Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, 2025, and was the top ranked Indian cement company in the list. Accordingly, UltraTech has now ranked in the top 10…
The Tokyo Cement Group expanded the cement capacity of its advanced Trincomalee grinding plant in Sri Lanka by 1.0 Mta. The company is the undisputed market leader in the country with around 4.0 Mta cement capacity. After a slowdown of…
Grupo Gloria has announced a US$ 100m investment to expand its business with a lime plant in Peru, where subsidiary Cal & Cemento Sur operates already a lime plant in the high plateau region. This plant (photo) has five kilns…
GCPL (GoldCrest Cement Private Limited) is in the process of setting up a mega integrated cement manufacturing plant in India. The greenfield project shall have a clinker capacity of 3.5 Mta capacity and a cement capacity of 4.5 Mta. In…
Portland Cement Ltd. in Malawi, which is a member of Huaxin, has a 2000 tpd clinker production line under construction (photo). In 2022 Lafarge sold its stake in the company to China based Huaxin Cement, while the name has been…
Ecocem announced an additional investment of € 170m to expand its ACT production capacity in France to 1.9 Mta. Four new lines for the production of ACT scalable low-carbon cements shall be constructed in the Fos-sur-Mer and Dunkirk areas. This…
Another modern cement production plant has been inaugurated in Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia, by Pioneer Cement Manufacturing PLC. The new plant (photo) is a joint venture between local and Chinese investors and is creating at least 550 direct jobs. With this new…
Conch Cement doubled its cement capacity in Cambodia to 4.0 Mta, which is more than 36% of the countries capacity of 11.0 Mta. The first plant Battambang Conch Cement is operating since 2018, the second plant Phnom Penh Conch Cement…
IVI Holding has officially kicked off the investment to establish a 6,000 tpd cement plant in the Al-Muthanna Province in Iraq. The company has signed a US$240m EPC contract (Engineering, procurement and construction) with Sinoma Overseas to bridge the gap…
India’s Wonder Cement inaugurated the 5th 8500 tpd kiln line at the Nimbahera cement plant in District Chittorgarh in Rayasthan and increased the clinker capacity of the plant to about 13.6 Mta. With the commissioning of grinding unit 5, the…