Cement News tagged: International
Semen Gresik expects infrastructure surge
PT Semen Gresik, Indonesia’s largest cement maker, expects sales this year to rise on the back of an expected surge in national infrastructure investment, a senior company executive said Tuesday
Law & order concerns Karachi
Dr. Muhammad Aslam, President of Lasbella Chamber of Commerce has expressed concern over law and order situation in Hub since past few weeks during which bomb blasts in various localities of Hub have
Higher Cement Prices in Ethiopia
Incremental increases in cement prices over the last few months helped boost gross profits of the state-owned Mugher Cement Factory by 46 percent, sources disclosed to The Daily Monitor. The factory
Cemex Venezuela unit reopens
The Venezuelan unit of Mexican cement company Cemex (CX) reopened its administrative offices Tuesday after the Seniat tax authority shut them on Monday for bookkeeping irregularities, said a company e
Falcon Cement Company Bahrain
Falcon Cement Company has recently appointed India-based ERCOM Engineering Company to develop the design of the new cement plant which will cover an area of more than two million square feet in the Hu
Mardin Cimento to build new clinker unit
Turkish cement, clinker and ready-mixed concrete producer Mardin Cimento will start the construction of an additional clinker production facility, worth Euro 45m in March 2006, Mardin Cimento CEO Kema
China’s output of cement in December 2005
China produced 101,860,800t of cement in December 2005. The output in January-December reached 1,038,300,000t, up 11.6 per cent year on year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Eurocement Group produces more cement
Eurocement Group produced 22.5Mt of cement last year. The Ukrainian enterprises of the Holding produced 2.8Mt of cement. Last year it was approved and started the realisation of technical re-equipmen
Lithuania’s Akmenes raises sales
Akmenes Cementas, Lithuania’s only cement manufacturer, posted 6.173 million litas (Euro 1.8m) in sales for January, a surge of 47.3 per cent from the year-earlier figure of 4.19 million litas.
Improving prices in China filtering through
Helped by higher prices at home and some improvements in China, Taiwan’s cement firms with plants in mainland China, including Taiwan Cement Corp, Asia Cement Corp and Chia Hsin Cement Corp, wil
Indonesia Jan cement consumption flat
Domestic cement consumption reached 2.24Mt in January, flat from a year ago, while exports fell 16.4 per cent year-on-year to 209,554t, the Indonesian Cement Association said. West Java, the biggest
Indian bagging expertise
The Rs 200-crore Karur KCP Packaging company is one of the leading producers of extensible sack kraft paper, polypropylene bags and paper bags from southern part of the country. A major part of the co
Lone Star distribution plant approved
After a five-year legal battle, Lone Star Industries was issued a permit Friday to build and operate a riverfront barge facility to load cement in Sayler Park. The Louisville District of the US Army C
More expansion planned by NCF Dhubai
National Cement Factory , an Abu Dhabi-based cement company which is linking up with Holcim to build a new grinding plant in Abu Dhabi is also studying the feasibility of setting up a new clinker fact
SCCC sees rise in local sales
Siam City Cement Plc (SCCC), Thailand’s country’s second largest cement maker, expects its domestic sales volume this year to rise six per cent to over eight million tonnes, thanks to growth mom
Cement profits rise in line with infrastructure growth
With a spurt in development of infrastructure projects, a majority of Indian cement firms clocked over 200 per cent increase in net profit for the third quarter of 2005-06, industry chamber Assocham s