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…
India’s UltraTech Cement completed debottlenecking projects at various locations, leading to an increased production capacity of 1.4 Mta. The projects included the grinding units (GU) Nagpur (photo) in Maharashtra adding 0.6 Mta cement capacity, Panipat in Haryana adding 0.4 Mta…
Concreat Holdings Philippines (CHP), a majority-owned subsidiary of DMCI Holdings, announced the full operations of the new production line at its Solid Cement Plant (photo) in Antipolo City. The new line has a production capacity of 1.5 Mta and increases…
Iraqi’s News Agency (INA) stated that 4 new cement projects will be started in the next few years, while one project has been launched with a combined cement capacity of more than 8.5 Mta. Commercial operations were launched for the…
India’s Shree Cement has commissioned a new 3.4 Mta clinker grinding unit by way of brownfield expansion at its Baloda Bazar integrated cement plant (photo) close to Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The company has two more ongoing expansion projects in Jaitaran, Rajasthan…
India’s Shree Cement plans to build 3 more cement plans in Karnataka according to a MoU between the company and the Government of Karnataka. Shree is one of the TOP3 cement players in India, with 53.4 Mta cement capacity, operating…