India: UltraTech Cement has appointed Jayant Dua as its managing director. He will start the role in April 2026. He succeeds KC Jhanwar in the role. Dua joined the cement business of Aditya Birla ...

Peru: Cement shipments reached 1.04Mt in February 2026, up by 11% year-on-year and by 9% over the previous 12 months. Cement production was 0.95Mt, up by 9% year-on-year and by 6% over the previous 12 ...

Canada: Progressive Planet has developed a supplementary cementitious material named Planet LCD Cement, based on limestone calcined diatomite. The company said the material can replace up to 50% of ...

US: Utilities provider Georgia Power will extract and transport 2Mt of coal ash currently stored at its former Arkwright coal-fired power plant in Macon, Georgia. The ash is destined for Georgia Power ...

Türkiye: Limak Cement has produced and certified Türkiye’s first limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) at its Trakya plant, according to a social media post by the producer. It said that the cement ...

UK: Wirral Borough Council leader Paula Basnett will write to UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to urge the government to scrap the Peak Cluster CO₂ pipeline project, according to local press. The €69m ...

Saudi Arabia: Najran Cement awarded a US$13m contract to Sinoma International Engineering to build an electric grid connection project at its Sultana plant in Madinah province, under the Liquid Fuel ...

Argentina: Cement despatches were 0.71Mt in February 2026, down by 6% year-on-year from 0.74Mt in February 2025 and down by 12% month-on-month from 0.79Mt in January 2026. Domestic despatches reached ...

Syria: The General Company for Cement and Building Materials Industry and Marketing (OMRAN) received clinker shipments from Egyptian company Cisco on 7 March 2026, following a memorandum of ...

Ghana: President John Dramani Mahama has commissioned ‘the world’s largest’ calcined clay cement plant in Tema, developed by CBI Ghana. The US$110m plant has a production capacity of 1.5Mt/yr of ...

US: Shipments of Portland and blended cement including imports in the US and Puerto Rico totalled 7.86Mt in November 2025, up slightly from 7.84Mt in November 2024. Shipments for the year to November ...

Germany: Heidelberg Materials has announced that it will permanently close its 0.4Mt/yr-capacity Paderborn cement plant in North Rhine-Westphalia due to a ‘significant’ decline in cement sales driven ...