As Greece recovers from its post-2004 Olympic decline in its construction market, 2006 saw the first signs of growth in national cement consumption, clawing back some tonnage from exports.
A warm, humid Florida with occasional thunderstorms welcomed 916 registrants to the 55th IEEE-IAS PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference between 14-18 April 2013. The improving US economy and th...
Titan's first-quarter turnover showed a 7.8 per cent improvement to €243m while the EBITDA fell by 29.4 per cent, in line with the 29.3 per cent reduction seen this time last year, to €24.3m. The...
A recent study by the Boston Consulting Group for CEMBUREAU claims that the cement industry has a key role to play in helping Europe achieve its goals of developing a sustainable, resource efficie...
Italcementi's first-quarter turnover declined by 9.3 per cent to €964.8m and the running EBITDA fell by 32.7 per cent to €88.5m. The €21.3m trading profit a year earlier dropped to a €16.5m loss a...
Macedonia’s sole cement producer Cementarnica Usje said its consolidated net profit fell to MKD1.32bn (EUR21.4m) in 2012 from MKD1.92bn a year earlier. Sales revenue fell 18 per cent to MKD3.76bn...
Goldman Sachs has upgraded Titan Cement Co to neutral from sell, Dow Jones reports. While the investment bank remains cautious on Titan's end markets in the near term, it says consensus FY13/14 EB...
The general secretary of Greece’s Opposition Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Aleka Papariga, has met with representatives of the Heracles Cement plant at the party's headquarters in Perissos and ...
Lafarge's Greek subsidiary Heracles General Cement Company is closing down its Halkis works permanently, thereby reducing capacity by 2.3Mta. The Halkis works, which had been supplying the domesti...
