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Rinker buys Florida premix company
Rinker Group Ltd announced that its US subsidiary Rinker Materials Corporation has expanded into the fast growing Florida Panhandle region with the acquisition of RMC Group plc’s premix concrete busin
Aggregate Industries sees $7 to $8 on US cement prices
Aggregate Industries has seen better first half activity in its US business this year, thanks to less adverse weather conditions but there has also been an underlying improvement in the Mid-Atlantic a
NCC withdraws from the Swedish market
The Swedish-based construction group NCC, having sold its ready-mixed concrete operations in Finland, the Baltic states, Poland, Norway and the St. Petersburg area of Russia as well as some of its Swe
Cemex looks for more growth
Cemex forecasts 1H04 Ebitda will grow 15 per cent to US$1.2bn and revenue will increase six per cent to US$3.7bn compared to the same period last year, the company announced. In 2Q04, Ebitda will jum
Senior officials inspect cement unit
The Vice-Chairman of India Cements Limited (ICL), DL Subrahmanyam, and other senior officials on Sunday inspected the cement factory at Chilamakur in Yerraguntla mandal and began a review of yesterda
Zuari Cements workers prepare for strike
Demanding that the management of Zuari Cements Ltd re-induct six workers who were expelled for their alleged attack on management, over 350 permanent workers of the Cement factory are getting ready to
Baltsem Leaves Ukrtsement
Ukraine’s largest producer of cement, the Baltsem plant (Balakliia, Kharkiv region) has left the Ukrainian Association of Enterprises and Organizations of the Cement Industry, otherwise known as
Strabag may open cement plant by 2008
Hungarian construction holding Strabag may open a Ft27bn (US$131m) cement plant with a capacity of 1Mt, by 2008. A final decision on whether the project will go ahead will be taken only after polling
UAE Emirates Cement factory to raise output
UAE cement maker Emirates Cement Factory, located in al-Ain, eastern UAE, plans to raise its production to about 4Mta from the current 950,000tpa, it was reported on June 14, 2004. Emirates Cement is
Moroccan cement growth
Sources in the Moroccan Ministry of Industry and Commerce estimate the cement consumption in Morocco to grow as high as 12.65Mt by 2008. The same sources attribute this cement consumption growth to th
Cement factories deny crisis claims
Cyprus’s two cement producers factories yesterday rubbished reports of a cement crisis, saying the island¹s annual production was more than enough to cover the needs of the market. Speaking to t
Cement shortage not raising price yet
A US cement shortage in the south has neither increased prices nor affected state- funded projects, but that will change if the product remains scarce, construction officials said. The shortages will
Amnesty slams CRH for Israeli wall work
Amnesty International, has condemned CRH for its involvement in the construction of a wall cutting off Palestinian land in Israel. CRH owns a 25 per cent stake in the Mashav Group, an Israeli holding
Baltsem to increase cement production
Ukraine’s largest producer of cement, the Baltsem plant (Balakliia, Kharkiv region), intends to increase cement production by 16.3 per cent or 0.246Mt in 2004 compared with 2003, to 1.75Mt. Acc
Semen Gresik predicts rise in production
State-owned PT Semen Gresik (SG), the country’s largest integrated cement producer, said domestic cement production was expected to grow by 10 percent this year on higher demand from the propert
Mexico’s Cemex confronts US cement crunch
Cemex is expanding its infrastructure in the US, and hoping soon to step up exports to the country where demand is outpacing supply. On Wednesday, Cemex’s US subsidiary said it plans to build