Global Cement News

Pakistan: Cement exports rose by 22% year-on-year in the first 11 months of the 2024–25 financial year, which started in July 2024, reaching over 8Mt, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Shipments increased by 30% year-on-year from 6.18Mt to 8.0Mt. In May 2025, exports rose by 6% year-on-year to US$34m in value and by 45% month-on-month from April 2025. Overall, national exports grew by 5% while imports rose by 7.5% over the same period.

New Zealand: Fletcher Building will begin using hard-to-recycle plastics and wood as alternative fuels in its cement production process during 2025, as part of its ‘front-end firing project’, according to The Post newspaper. The company aims to be 100% coal-free by 2030. It said wood pellets and shredded tyres currently substitute for 50% of coal. The new additions will raise this to 70–80%. Fletcher Building began burning wood pellets in 2003, construction waste in 2010 and tyres in 2023. Fletcher Building said it plays a “significant role in waste diversion for New Zealand."

Indonesia: Cement consumption fell by 5% year-on-year to 5.18Mt in May 2025, despite rising 32% month-on-month following Eid al-Fitr, according to Kontan.co.id news. The annual drop reflects ongoing purchasing power challenges, longer holidays and routine demand from the construction of the country’s new capital city at Nusantara.

Java remained the top sales region at 2.73Mt, down by 6% year-on-year. Sales outside Java also declined by 3% to 2.45Mt. Bagged cement consumption fell by 4% to 3.69Mt, while bulk cement demand dropped by 6% to 1.49Mt. Cumulative sales from January to May 2025 stood at 22.27Mt, down 2% year-on-year, compared to a 1% decline in the January–April period.

Equity research analyst Andreas Saragih at Mirae Aset Sekuritas said “Although there was a deeper contraction, we are of the view that the achievement is relatively in line with expectations, because it is equivalent to 35% of our 2025 cement sales estimate.”

India: Nuvoco Vistas has completed its acquisition of Vadraj Cement, upon the payment of US$20.9m to lenders led by Punjab National Bank and Union Bank of India. Gujarat-based Vadraj Cement operates a 6Mt/yr grinding unit in Surat. The acquisition increases Nuvoco Vistas' installed cement capacity by 24%, to 31Mt/yr.

Nuvoco Vistas undertook the acquisition through its wholly-owned subsidiary Vanya Corporation.

India: Adani Group subsidiary Ambuja Cements has commissioned a 2.4Mt/yr expansion to one of its West Bengal cement facilities. Reuters has reported that the move raises the producer's total installed capacity to 103Mt/yr.