Brazil: Cement sales rose by 2% in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year, reaching 32.9Mt, according to the cement industry association SNIC. In June 2026, 5.8Mt were sold, ...

Cement sales volumes increased by 9% year-on-year in June 2026 and 5% month-on-month to 4.39Mt, reflecting a recovery from the decline in May 2026, according to Al Rajhi capital. Sales volumes in the ...

Fiji: Pacific Cement has proposed a US$15.6m upgrade project for its plant in Lami, which reportedly includes a new cement mill, two new silos and a packing plant, according to local press. However, ...

Switzerland: Swiss cement plants slightly increased their deliveries in the second quarter of 2026, according to the latest report by the cement industry association Cemsuisse. They supplied 1Mt of ...

Germany: CI4C, the consortium comprising cement producers Dyckerhoff, Heidelberg Materials, Schwenk Zement and Vicat, has officially inaugurated its oxyfuel carbon capture project at the Mergelstetten ...

Armenia: Employees of Armenia's Ararat Cement plant staged a protest on 9 July 2026 after the facility remained sealed by investigators, leaving hundreds of workers unable to return to their jobs, ...

India: KJS Cement has appointed Jalaj Srivastava as Chief Sales & Marketing Officer. Srivastava has worked in the cement sector since the early 1990s starting at Modi Cement. He later worked for Prism ...

Kazakhstan: Steppe Cement increased its revenue by 43% year-on-year to US$63m after selling 978,950t of cement in the first half of 2026, up by 15% from 850,424t a year earlier. It said that higher ...

Yanbu Cement has appointed Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Khereiji as its chair following an Ordinary General Assembly held in mid-June 2026. Riyad bin Abdulrahman Aba Al-Khail has also been appointed as ...

Pakistan: Power Cement has appointed Naveed Afzal as its Chief Financial Officer. Afzal previously worked as Advisor - Strategy & Operational Excellence for Power Cement in 2025. Before this he worked ...