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.

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 ...

India said that the cement industry has installed 1.8GW of renewable energy capacity and aims to add 5GW more by 2030, according to Platts via S&P Global. Around 3% of electricity used comes from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cementir Group launched two of its lower carbon cement products in the Middle East and Africa markets this week. We’ll take a look at this in more detail and cover other recent products news from ...

Egypt: Misr Cement Qena generated a net profit of US$36.2m during the first nine months of 2025, up by a factor of 33 from just US$1.1m in the first nine months of 2024. The company’s net profit after ...

Uzbekistan: 488,700t of cement were exported from Uzbekistan into Kyrgyzstan in the first nine months of 2025, according to the National Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan. Kyrgyzstan is the main ...