CemWeek Magazine, Issue 16

CW Group announces the release of a new issue of CemWeek Magazine ÔÇô the executive oriented, industry standard source of knowledge and features for the global cement industry. In the opening feature, we take a step back (or a leap forward?) to the future and examine what our consulting colleagues on the CW Advisory side consider as a possible future avenue for the cement company of tomorrow.

We then return to the present with a feature rooted in the current situation of Afghanistan, as CW analysts paint a detailed image of the local cement industry, integrating it into the country's wider economical and political context.

The third feature of CemWeek Magazine takes us to an exciting region in the cement trading space: Saudi Arabia, where cement industry runs full throttle and where we take a look into the whys of the cement import rush decreed by King Abdullah and enforced by the local government. And last, but not least, for information about the latest evolutions of cement prices or for up-to-the-minute coal, petcoke, or natural gas market updates, CemWeek's Magazine Research and Analytics section packs a handful of data-rich material ready to be crunched into a precise, global image of the industry.

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CONTENTS

FEATURES

6 CREATING THE CEMENT COMPANY OF TOMORROW

CW Advisory on long-term shareholder value creation

14 COMPETITION INTENSIFIES ON AFGHAN TERRITORY

Cement is key for reconstruction effort

20 SAUDI ARABIA IMPORT RUSH

Fast-paced development prompts for additional 2.7 million tons of cement imports

DEPARTMENTS

EDITORÔÇÖS LETTER

3 Challenging conventional wisdom

NUMBERS IN BRIEF

6 CW Research: Cement prices pick up momentum in 2012, but not everywhere

RESEARCH

26 Cement Volumes

Signs of economic recovery remain uncertain for Europe

28 Cement Energy Markets

Coal Market Update

32 Market Data Snapshot

PEOPLE

33 People on the move

REGIONAL REPORTS

34 Europe, Middle East and Africa

36 Central and Southeast Asia

38 Americas

40 Asia Pacific

FROM OUR INDUSTRY PARTNER

41 Construction and building materials update

EQUIPMENT

44 Equipment and notable projects

CW GROUP MEETING AGENDA

46 CW Group's upcoming events

BUZZ

47 Top 15 CemWeek and BMWeek stories