India: Adani Cement Industries has ordered a MVR 3750 C-4 type vertical roller mill from Germany-based Gebr. Pfeiffer for a new 165t/hr cement grinding plant it plans to build at Dahej in Gujarat. The order also includes an integrated SLS 4000 VC type classifier and a drive with a rated power of 3090kW. The subsidiary of Adani Group will produce fly ash-pozzolan mixed cement at the site.

Gebr. Pfeiffer’s local subsidiary, Gebr. Pfeiffer (India), will act as the general contractor for the project and will provide plant engineering. The commissioning of the new mill is planned for the period before the rainy season in the summer of 2023.

Australia: Boral has posted a slump in its annual profit, which fell by a third year-on-year for the 12 months to 30 June 2022. It made a profit of US$73.7m, down from US$98m in the 12 months to 30 June 2021

The company said that the result had been impacted by rising energy and haulage costs, while severe rains in eastern Australia at the start of 2022 had forced temporary stoppages to numerous construction projects. The company withheld profit guidance in its announcement, saying only that it expected revenue to be higher in the 2023 fiscal year as a result of annual price increases and new freight charges for customers.

UK: Bunting plans to promote its magnetic separator and metal detector products at the Powtech trade fair taking place in Germany in late September 2022. The company will be displaying a number of high-strength rare earth magnetic separators including its Plate Magnet Housing (PHMS), Drawer Magnet (HFS), Grate Magnet, Plate Magnet and Bullet Magnet products. Each magnetic separator effectively removes fine tramp iron from a wide range of granules and powders at different locations within a plant. The company promotes its products to the aggregate, quarrying, recycling and slag processing sectors amongst others.

Mexico: A group of approximately 400 former workers of Cooperativa la Cruz Azul, who maintain possession of the Tula cement plant in Hidalgo, staged a demonstration on 22 August 2022 in front of the offices of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) demanding that power to the plant be reinstated.

Through a press release, the CFE said that it had met with some of the protesters. After negotiations, it concluded that the reconnection of the plant "will be made as soon as notification is received from the court or competent authority."

Local reports have suggested that the cut was ordered on 17 August 2022 by Víctor Manuel Velázquez Rangel, who heads the Board of Directors of the Cooperativa la Cruz Azul, the legal owner of the plant. The justification was that the plant has become dangerous to operate after two years of occupation by the protestors.