Global Cement Report
Latvia
PDFFull Introduction ReportDownload HereEvidenced by a strongly improving per capita cement consumption rate, up from 165kg in 2003 to over 305kg in 2006, the Latvian market is showing good growth prospects.
Country Research
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Cemex: September '12
08 October 2012Cemex is planning to increase the capacity of its APO works in the Philippines by 1.5Mt at a cost of US$65m, as the present plant at that location is setting close to capacity. The Philippine ceme...
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SITA UK to supply solid recovered fuel (SRF) to Cemex in Latvia
01 October 2012Recycling and resource management company, SITA UK, has signed a three-year contract to supply 180,000t of solid recovered fuel to Cemex in Latvia. The fuel will be produced by processing resid...
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EU ETS: 2011 cement update
19 September 2012Cashing in on the lucrative EU emissions trading scheme has been a welcome safety net to many European cement producers during recent years of recession. However, the changes that will occur in Ph...
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Nordic stability lies ahead
24 March 2012The Nordic cement markets comprising Sweden, Norway, Finland, Demark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have many modern cement plants operating kilns with some of the highest alternative fuel substit...
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The next steps for Cemex?
22 November 2011Which way now for Cemex? Speculation over Cemex and its ability to service its massive debt burden has been heightened due to the present global economic slowdown. The company ha...
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Cement under the EU ETS
24 October 2011The 2005 European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) covers some 11,300 factories and power stations across 10 industrial sectors in 30 countries, involving almost half of Europe’s carbon emissi...
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Cemex
30 September 2011Cemex plans to dispose of around US$1bn of assets between now and the end of 2012 to reduce debt. Lorenzo Zambrano said that about US$180m of these disposals should happen during this year and decl...
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Cemex Latvia targets 1Mta of production in 2011
20 September 2011Cemex Latvia plans to produce and sell more than 1Mt of cement in 2011, the company’s Commercial Director Maris Gruznins told local press. Mr Gruznins said that this has been made possible as ...