
Australia’s Adelaide Brighton Ltd announces its 2013 financial results
The company’s cement sales volumes improved slightly while lime volumes were affected by weak demand from the gold sector.
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The company’s cement sales volumes improved slightly while lime volumes were affected by weak demand from the gold sector.

Ng Weng Hoong reports on India’s coal sector in the second part of this abridged article from World Cement's sister publication World Coal.

Ng Weng Hoong reports on India’s scandal-prone coal industry and the impact such scandals are having on the country’s power sector.

In December 2013, seasonally adjusted construction output grew by 0.9% in the euro area (EA17) and by 1% in the EU28, compared to November 2013.

Hope Construction Materials will supply concrete for a major redevelopment project in Newcastle, UK.

Unicast, Inc., a distributor of cast wear parts for the cement, mining, and aggregates industries, has announced its expansion into Asia with its new office in the Philippines.

The Profi 75 TI and Profi 100 TI hoists have been launched by J D Neuhaus, offering SWL capacities of 75 and 100 t, respectively.

The Cement Association of Canada (CAC) has expressed its disappointment at the British Columbia (B.C.) government’s lack of action to address carbon tax issues, which put cement industry jobs at risk.

European associations with a stake in waste management urge the European Commission to ensure SRF and RDF from waste remain under the control of waste legislation.

CeraTech, a US manufacture of green cement and concrete, has released an Environmental Product Declaration for its ekkomaxx cement concrete.

The ‘Zero Accident’ programme Cemex introduced in 2007 has reaped results, with no incidents recorded across the company’s 65 sites in Spain in 2013.

A €2 million investment project at the Toral cement plant in Spain has enabled Cementos Cosmos to reduce energy consumption and increase efficiency.