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US: Turkey’s Çimsa has launched a new subsidiary in the US at the World of Concrete event in Las Vegas. The company has set up the Cimsa Americas Cement Manufacturing and Sales Corporation to target its products at the US market. It also promoted white cement products at the fair including its Super White, Crafta, Recipro and Resisto brands.

Tunisia: The National Chamber of Ceramics Manufacturers has expressed concern about the a shortage of white cement following the closure of the Société Tuniso-Andalouse de Ciment Blanc’s (SOTACIB) plant at Férien. The ceramics association has called for the government to speed up the import process, according to the L'economiste Maghrebin magazine. SOTACIB’s 0.65Mt/yr white cement plant closed on 19 January 2018 for a six-month period following a strike by workers in December 2017. Spain’s Cementos Molins is the majority shareholder in the company.