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HeidelbergCement has increased its participation in Kerpen & Kerpen GmbH & Co. KG from 30% to 100% in exchange for new shares.
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HeidelbergCement has increased its participation in Kerpen & Kerpen GmbH & Co. KG from 30% to 100% in exchange for new shares.

Egyptian cement manufacturer Suez Cement has inaugurated a €5 million waste processing facility, located at the company’s Kattameya plant.

TCL Guyana Inc. repaired a section of road in Georgetown after receiving approval from the Ministry of Public Works to carry out pilot projects demonstrating the soil cement stabilisation technique.

Indian cement producer Mangalam Cement has reported a 96.63% y/y fall in profit for the quarter ended 31 December 2013.

Semen Indonesia (formerly Semen Gresik) has contracted FLSmidth to supply a greenfield cement plant in the northeastern part of Central Java.

‘Reality bites as 2014 dawns, but the demand base is stronger than ever’ states Peter Sand, BIMCO Chief Shipping Analyst, in this extract from the latest BIMCO report.

In this extract from the report, Peter Sand, BIMCO Chief Shipping Analyst, explains that fundamental changes are ongoing, and that there is a positive outlook materialising around the world.

Iran produced 58.226 million t of cement in the first ten months of the current fiscal year and witnessed a 38% increase in exports in the same period.

The conference will include new professional training, with over 20 sessions on a range of topics.

The contract covers process optimisation for the Hope cement plant in Derbyshire, UK.

According to the latest figures from the ONS, construction output improved by 1.3% y/y in 2013.

Machinery and tool orders were down by ~2% over 2013, while a new energy surcharge could push the German cement industry to breaking point.