Lafarge sells its cement operations in Honduras

Cementos Artigas, a partnership between the Brazilian Votorantim Cimentos and the Spanish Cementos Molins, has opened its new cement grinding and dispatch facilities in the city of Minas/Uruguay. The...

Lafarge-Holcim will have the largest cement capacity of any of the cement producers in the Americas after their merger and sale of assets to CRH. In the following review we will discuss the implications of the merger, profile the major cement rivals in this region and look at the latest market developments in the major markets of the USA, Brazil and Mexico.

Cementos Inka, a family-owned Peruvian cement producer, and Christian Pfeiffer, a global provider of grinding technology, completed the commissioning of a state-of-the-art grinding plant in April...