Cement News tagged: International
Chile cement sales to grow in 2004
The cement industry reported 4.6 per cent growth in sales during 2003 because of ongoing major construction works. Analysts in the sector agreed that the most important job for the cement industry in
Pakistani production and prices
Local cement prices increased in the range of Rs5 per bag to Rs10 per bag on Monday because of rising supply-demand gap but the representative body of cement manufacturers said they are prepared to in
Indonesia cement consumption up 3.8%
Consumption of cement in January 2004 has reached 2.34Mt or 3.8 per cent more than in the same period of last year when the figure was 2.27Mt.
Venezuela cement sales down 17.4%
Cement sales in Venezuela fell 17.4 per cent last year to 2.7Mt from 3.3Mt in 2002 as demand from the construction sector fell back, according to AVPC, the Venezuelan cement producers association.
Egyptian Misr Cement Qena exports at US$12m H2 2003
Egyptian cement producer Misr Cement Qena exported over 600,000t of cement and clinker for US$12m in the second half of 2003, the company’s chairman Mohamed Mahmoud Ali Hassan said.
Qatar National Cement cement prices
Qatar National Cement Company (QNCC) presently offers the lowest cement price of 185 Qatari riyals (US$50.8/t) in the Gulf region, according to report’s from the company’s shareholders’ me
Cement safeguards slashed by P5
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has decided to slash only P5 from the definitive safeguard duties imposed on all cement imports to P15.60 but has agreed to shorten the inspection period to
Chilanga Cement Records K72,402m pre-tax profit
Zambia’s Chilanga Cement Plc has announced a net pre-tax profit of K72,402m for 2003. According to interim results released by company secretary George Varghese last week, the company has recorded an
Indian Cement firms see reduced growth
Domestic cement makers have scaled down growth expectations for the industry in the current fiscal to around five per cent from 8.5 per cent registered last year. Last year, the total volume of busin
Turkish Konya Cimento
Turkish building materials producer Konya Cimento plans investments of 5.335 trln Turkish lira (US$4.05m) for 2004, it was reported on March 5, 2004. According to the business plan, Konya Cimento is
Grupo Caribe to spend US$17m on upgrades
Colombian cement producer Grupo Caribe is to spend 46bn pesos (US$17m) on plant upgrades to modernize and improve operations, executive president Eric Flesch Santoro announced during a 2003 results pr
Garadagh cement investments
Holcim is going to invest $3m of in-house funds in Garadagh Cement joint-stock company by September 2004, Azer-press read in the press release of Garadagh Cement bringing total investments up to US$20
Katavsky Cement’s February Output
Katavsky Cement has produced 47,000t of cement since it was put back into operation at the end of January. This represents a third of the plant’s full-year output in 2003. The plant also began
Big rise in Lucky Cement Jul-Dec profits
Pakistan: Lucky Cement’s profits in the six months ended on December 31, 2003, registered an increase of 89 percent because of higher sales and cut in borrowing costs. The operating profits befo
Former Taiheiyo director appointed to Ssangyong
Tadashi Suzuki, formerly of Taiheiyo Cement Corp, will become president of South Korea’s largest cement manufacturer, Ssangyong Cement Industrial Co., in which the Japanese cement company owns a
Cement plant for Rafsanjan
Iran has started the construction of a cement plant with a daily capacity of 3500t in Rafsanjan, in the eastern province of Kerman. The construction is financed by the private sector with 80bn Irania