Iraq: Lafarge Iraq has appointed Tarek Sharobime as CEO. He succeeds Medhat Ismail in the role. Sharobime has worked for Holcim since 2007 when he started as a Production Engineer at Holcim UAE. He ...

UK: Breedon Group has appointed James Brotherton as CEO with effect from the start of 2027. He will succeed Rob Wood in the role, who has decided to retire. Wood will remain an employee of the group ...

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India: JSW Cement has commissioned an additional 1Mt/yr of cement grinding capacity at its Nagaur plant in Rajasthan, taking the facility’s total grinding capacity to 3.5Mt/yr. JSW’s total grinding ...

UK: Reclinker, a Wales-based company that turns demolition waste into low-carbon cement, has secured €11m in funding to take ...

Colombia: National statistics agency DANE reported domestic cement dispatches of 1.1Mt for August 2026, up by 3% year-on-year ...

Vietnam: Hoang Long Group has started operations on a new production line at a US$190m cement plant in Vietnam’s northern province of Phu Tho, according to local press. The 35-hectare Hoang Long Hoa ...

Eddy Ordóñez, the Minister of Economic Development, said “In Honduras, the market is not closed; the door is closed to cement without a guarantee.” He said that the regulation does not establish ...

Pakistan: Domestic cement despatches registered an increase of 7% in September 2026, reaching 3.78Mt compared to 3.52Mt in the corresponding month of the previous year. According to data released by ...

India: Shiva Cement will merge with JSW Cement, part of JSW Group, in a move that will create a ‘single unified cement ...

US: Holcim and Electrified Thermal Solutions (ETS), a leader in thermal energy storage and electric heating solutions for ...

US: Total shipments of cement, including imports, in the US and Puerto Rico in May 2026 were an estimated 8.94Mt, ...