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Iran has started exporting clinker to Turkey by rail from the Hashtgerd station, located near the cement plant in Abyek.
Serbia's economy ministry said it has agreed to provide a 10.6 million euro ($12.3 million) subsidy to Lafarge Srbija, part of Swiss building materials maker Holcim Group, to help finance the construction of a new cement plant in Belgrade's Obrenovac municipality.
Romania’s minister of economy, Radu Miruta, announced that he has requested the European Commission to examine the possibility of restricting cement imports from outside the European Union, citing concerns of unfair competition raised by local producers.
The inauguration of the Central Africa Cement SA (CAC) cement plant in in the Edéa 1st represents a major step forward in the strategy of industrialization and local transformation of the country's mineral resources
The Punjab government has approved setting up a new cement plant in Chakwal.
Officials in western Libya have laid the foundation stone for a new cement plant in Nalut, with an estimated cost of $600m.
Construction of the third Ghori Cement factory in northern Baghlan province has begun, with a total cost of $86.7 million.