Cement news 2018

BEUMER Group has now extended the low output range of the BEUMER fillpac FFS product family. The low capacity version ranges now from 1800 to 2600 bags per hour.

Eurocement’s Voronezh plant reported record monthly shipments in June, breaking the 0.2 million t mark for the first time.

Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science Corp. has launched ExTOPE Connect, its latest data management and storage service.

LafargeHolcim’s UK subsidiary, Aggregate Industries, has been awarded a contract worth at least £500 million to deliver pavement solutions to Highways England.

Disensa, LafargeHolcim’s hardware network, intends to have 3000 stores open across Latin America by 2021.

The company is contributing over 290 000 m3 of concrete for the expansion of the El Salitre plant.

S&P Global Ratings has upgraded its rating on South African cement producer, PPC, to investment-grade zaA.

Trade unions are being consulted on the transaction and its completion is expected over the summer.

UltraTech Cement has commissioned a second grinding unit at its Manawar plant in Madhya Pradesh, India.

Eurocement’s Nevyansky cement plant has completed an extensive maintenance programme, boosting productivity and improving the plant’s environment performance.