India: Adani Group plans to invest more than US$26m in a 5Mt/yr integrated cement plant in Kharagpur, West Bengal. The project is spread across 80 hectares and has received approval from the state industry department and is currently awaiting cabinet clearance. Once approved, construction is expected to begin, with commissioning planned within the ‘next few years.’ It was initially proposed by ACC in 2012, but the land was later returned to the state government after development failed to commence within the stipulated period. Adani Group revived the proposal in 2023 after its acquisition of ACC.

Armenia: Cement was available in only two building supply stores in Yerevan on 30 September 2026, according to Arme News. One of these stores is supplied by Ararat Cement, which partially resumed deliveries on 29 September 2026 after being suspended more than two weeks previously. The owner of another building supply store imports cement from Iran, deliveries of which have reportedly been ‘problematic,’ with hundreds of trucks carrying cement stuck at the border crossing between Iran and Armenia. Other local business owners have blamed Iranian suppliers for the shortage. Armenia’s ambassador to Iran reportedly met recently with Iranian vice president Hamid Pourmohammadi to discuss the ‘obstacles’ to the flow of goods between the two countries and how to ‘overcome’ them.

Singapore/Türkiye: Singapore-based clean energy startup SunGreen said it has completed its first 1MW anion exchange membrane (AEM) hydrogen electrolyser partnership with Turkish cement producer Limak Cement after six months of real-world testing. The project brought the company’s nanostructured electrode technology from single-cell performance to industrial-scale multi-cell stacks. SunGreen was involved as a technology partner, while Limak contributed engineering expertise. Testing took place between March and August 2026 and demonstrated low-cost hydrogen production, according to SunGreen.

US: Pakistan-based DG Khan Cement despatched 43,000t of low-alkali cement from his Hub cement plant to Houston, US, on 29 September 2026. DG Khan said via social media that it was a pioneer of Pakistani cement exports to the US, beginning in 2022, and it thanked its logistics partners for the ‘timely and efficient’ execution of the despatch.