Egypt: Suez Cement, which is 55 per cent owned by Italian firm Italcementi, is struggling to transfer shareholder profits out of Egypt

For the fourth quarter of 2014, Suez Cement reported a 2.5 per cent year-on-year increase in revenues and 11.5 per cent year-on-year growth in earnings before interest, tax and depreciation (EBITDA).

Italcementi Group needs to find a reliable fuel source for its cement plants to keep its 18 per cent of local cement sales. The Suez plant will use coal next November, while two of the group´ s its other factories in Tora and Helwan will start in two years´ time.

The Chairman of Suez Cement Group, Omar Mohanna, has announced that his company is planning to start transition processes

Suez Cement Group of Companies (SCGC) has started Egypt´s first waste processing plant. Bruno Carre, Suez Cement´s Chief Executive Officer, and Laila Iskandar, the Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, inaugurated the plant located at the company´s Kattameya plant. The project had taken almost a year to complete. The -Ç5 million facility is expected to process 35 Kt of waste and provide up to 20 per cent of the fuels required by the plant.

Suez Cement and the Society of Egyptian Architects has cemented a new partnership and launched a national contest "arcVision - Women and Architecture."

Suez Cement Group of Companies (SCGC) under the guidance of Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) has started the implementation of a new integrated alternative fuel system at its Kattameya plan in New Cairo.

Suez Cement, Egypt’s biggest listed cement maker by market value, said the political unrest that ousted Hosni Mubarak cost it and its subsidiary 80 million Egyptian pounds ($13.5 million).

Egypt’s Suez Cement will shut down 14 production lines as part of an agreement with the government to relocate out of the capital to reduce pollution.