Cement news updates

CTP Team has signed a contract to supply a waste heat recovery system to Cimko Narli cement plant in Turkey.

UltraTech Cement is to more than double its waste heat recovery capacity to 121 MW with new systems being set up at five cement plants across India.

Dave Powers, CEO of Eagle Cement, has appointed Michael Haack as the new President and COO.

Some of the week's most popular stories from the team at World Cement.

Glaucio Roland, a specialist in supply chains, continues to discuss the necessary considerations when producing and exporting petcoke in Brazil.

The Latin American-based conglomerate was founded in January 1918 and is now active in 24 countries.

India's Supreme Court has ruled that the cement industry can continue to import petcoke as a fuel.

Eagle Materials Inc. has reported financial results for the first quarter of the 2019 fiscal year.

Glaucio Roland, a specialist in supply chains, discusses the necessary considerations when producing and exporting petcoke in Brazil.

Concesión Costera (a consortium made up of Mario Huertas, MECO, Colpatria, and Castro Tcherassi) officially delivered the viaduct that rises over La Virgen Swamp in the department of Bolívar. This mega-project is not only the largest viaduct in the country, which spans 4.73 km, it is also the first 4G road to be completed.

Applications will open tomorrow for admission to Cementos Argos’s 2019 scholarship programme, which has promoted higher education in Colombia for the past four years and benefited 144 students so far.

Jonathan Rowland, World Cement Editor, continues to provide an overview of the major markets and major players in Latin America’s cement industry.

Hema, a leading manufacturing company, has utilised Siemens digitalisation tools to capture production data to help improve predictive plant maintenance.

The Balcones and FEC quarries were identified as two of the top crushed stone production operations in the US.

Jonathan Rowland, World Cement Editor, provides an overview of the major markets and major players in Latin America’s cement industry.

The company has been awarded contracts for a greenfield cement plant and a brownfield cement plant in Central America.

The JETFLEX® PLUS burner is the first to be installed in the LafargeHolcim Group, and will be used at the company’s Fujairah plant in the United Arab Emirates.

Some of the week's most popular stories from the team at World Cement.

Higher costs related to the construction of a cement plant in Saudi Arabia are among the challenges that will see thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions report negative EBIT in its coming quarterly results.

Cement sales were up in the first six months of the year at Buzzi Unicem, but earnings suffered from the strong euro, as well as higher costs, particularly in the US.

The Cement Sustainability Initiative will be moving from its WBCSD home to join the Global Cement and Concrete Association in London in January 2019.

The transaction is expected to be completed in the next 9 – 12 months.

The ORC will be installed at Cementi Rossi’s plant in Pederobba, Italy, and will recover exhaust heat from the clinker cooling plant.

Claudius Peters continued to suffer from a dearth of investment in the cement and steel industry, although there was some positive news from China