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Vietnamese company HUD Kien Giang, a leading building materials manufacturing and supply group in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, ordered a new 8000 tpd clinker line. The project has been awarded in an EPC contract. 

Birla Corporation Limited, through its wholly owned subsidiary RCCPL Private Limited, has commissioned a third production line at its Kundanganj cement grinding unit in Uttar Pradesh, increasing the company’s total consolidated capacity to 21.4 million tonnes per annum.

India’s JK Lakshmi Cement has announced a major capacity expansion program in its core markets across the country.

India’s Ambuja Cement continues the implementation of its capacity expansion program. By the end of October-December 2026, the company’s total capacity stands at 109 Mta of cement and 66 Mta of clinker.

Mexican building materials producer Cemex has announced that it is in the process of divesting certain operations in Colombia. The divestment is expected to take place through several separate transactions with different parties by the end of the year. 

The Swiss company Holcim has agreed to acquire building materials and solutions operations in Colombia in a deal valued at 485 million USD.

The Brazilian cement company Votorantim Cimentos is implementing an investment program of 5 billion BRL (Brazilian real), which provides for an increase in production capacity in the country by 3.7 million tons per year.