Cement news 2018

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.