Cement

App-based payments are already very common in Chinese brick-and-mortar businesses

Future carbon border tax should be introduced for products of oil refineries and the glass, paper and aluminium industry and not only for the power sector and energy-intensive industrial sectors like cement, steel, chemicals, and fertilisers, European lawmakers said.

Çimsa Çimento, one of Turkey's largest cement producers, has announced that it has agreed to buy a white cement plant from Spain-based Cemex.

The Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association on Jan. 2 responded to criticism from building contractors, saying that the necessary increase in the prices of their products will not reach 40 percent.

Global demand for cement is seen growing by 1.5 percent next year, the World Cement Association said on Dec. 5, as economic risks and trade tensions weigh on the construction industry in many countries.

Their structures are still standing more than 1,500 years after the last centurion snuffed it: now the Romans’ secret of durable marine concrete has finally been cracked.

The Republican-era Hanım Ağa house in the 3,500-year-old ancient city of Stratonikeia, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, is being restored with a special mortar and filled using spoons.

Turkey's cement industry aims to increase exports by 10 percent year-on-year to 13 million tons in 2017, Ali Özinönü, the chairman of the Council of Cement and Soil Products Sector at the Turkish Exporters Assembly, stated on May 16.

It is a huge development that Greece managed to achieve such a high budget surplus, and especially in light of the economic pressures it continues to find itself under to this day.

That said, it needs to be noted that this over-performance was achieved thanks to overtaxation, to measures for cutting costs and to slashed expenditures.

Turkish conglomerate Sabanc? Holding has plans to make its largest amount of investments on energy in 2016, said Chief Executive Officer Zafer Kurtul on Feb. 29.