Egypt: Arabian Cement recorded consolidated net profits of US$18m in the first quarter of 2026. Net sales reached US$57.6m from US$49m. As for the standalone business, the company posted higher net profits of US$18m in the first three months of 2026, compared to US$11m a year earlier.

India: Adani Group will invest over US$26m in a greenfield cement plant, expected to be operational in 2028 and spread across 80 hectares. It is expected to be a grinding plant due to the size of the investment, and will have a capacity of 5Mt/yr. The Kharagpur plant had initially been proposed by ACC in 2012 but, when the company failed to commence work within five years, it was vested back to the state. When Adani Group acquired ACC in 2023 and learnt about the proposal, it made an application for the land.

Morocco: Cement deliveries reached 1.21Mt in May 2026, compared to 1.53Mt in May 2025, representing a decline of 20% year-on-year. According to data published by the Ministry of National Territorial Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Urban Policy, deliveries in the first five months of 2026 were 5.73Mt, down by 5% year-on-year from 6.05Mt. Statistics are based on internal data from members of the Professional Association of Cement Manufacturers (APC): Asment Temara, Ciments de L’Atlas, Ciments du Maroc, LafargeHolcim Maroc and Novacim.

Spain: Cemex will invest €451m to decarbonise its Alcanar plant in Montsià, up from €382m, following the final resolution of the second call for proposals under Spain's PERTE decarbonisation programme, funded by the European Commission's Next Generation EU instrument. The Spanish government will provide €200m in grants, up from €172m in the provisional resolution.

Following the provisional resolution, Cemex submitted appeals that resulted in the upward revision of the eligible budget to €451m. Cemex and other finalist projects have ten business days from publication of the final resolution to accept the grant and submit the required guarantee and environmental certificate.