Cement News tagged: International

Lafarge to invest US$90m to reconstruct Aceh plant

07 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Lafarge SA will invest US$90m to rebuild a cement plant in Aceh, Indonesia, destroyed by the tsunamis December 2004, the French company said Thursday ending speculation that

Mexico cement industry trims 2005 outlook

06 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Mexico’s cement industry has trimmed its output forecast for 2005 to a rise of between 2.5-3 per cent and per cent from an initial estimate of 3.5 per cent, the country’s main industry gro

Siam City Cement says rising costs to damp 2005 profit growth

06 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Thailand’s second-largest cement maker Siam City Cement PCL expects its net profit growth this year to be lower than last year’s, despite rising sales, mainly because of higher production

Cement production to achieve 1Mt, Brazil

06 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Brazil expects to produced around 1Mt more of cement this year. In 2004, the companies active in the sector produced 34.4Mt according to the National Union of the Cement Industry, which believes that

Southern Province cement H1 profit up 14%

Southern Province cement H1 profit up 14%

06 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Saudi Arabia’s Southern Province Cement Co first-half net profit rose 14 per cent to 323 million riyals ($86m), the company said. Southern Province Cement, the kingdom’s largest listed cem

Cement sales rise on construction boom, India

06 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Cement sales rose strongly in June as firms stepped up construction activity across the country spurred by strong growth in Asia’s fourth-largest economy

Cemex And Ready Mix USA Complete JV

Cemex And Ready Mix USA Complete JV

05 July 2005, Published under Cement News

The US subsidiary of Cemex and Ready Mix USA, a private ready-mix concrete company with operations in the Southeastern United States, today announced that they have established a Joint Venture to sat

CRH pretax profits rise again

05 July 2005, Published under Cement News

CRH announced that it expects that profit before tax for the six months to Jun. 30, 2005 will show a percentage increase in the high teens compared with 2004 (2004: Euro 319m on an IFRS basis). The

Lafarge, Comex team up to build gypsum plant

05 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Lafarge will team up with Mexico’s largest paint manufacturer Comex to build a gypsum production plant in the central state of Querétaro, local press reported. The two firms will also create a

Oman Cement to boost output capacity

05 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Majority state-owned Oman Cement Company said on Monday it will increase its production capacity by 88 per cent to 3Mta, to meet increasing demand in local and international markets. Current output

Qilianshan Cement to build two production lines

04 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Qilianshan Cement Co. Ltd in northwest China’s Gansu Province announced recently that the company will invest 530 to 610 million yuan (approx US$70m) in building two new cement

Cement prices on decline, no need for import duties

04 July 2005, Published under Cement News

There will be no need to impose regulatory duty on Pakistan’s cement imports since its the prices have already started to decline after increased supply by the industry, said Tariq Sehgal, the chairma

QNCC production capacity to increase

04 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Qatar National Cement Company (QNCC) production capacity is expected to reach a total of 7000tpd cement by the end of this year when the new unit currently being assembled goes on stream in October, Q

India Gujarat floods stop production

04 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Heavy rains over the past week in the industrialized western Indian state of Gujarat have halted operations of some companies, but major financial impact is unlikely, say analysts. Ultratech Cement s

Hainan’s largest cement production project operational

04 July 2005, Published under Cement News

A 2Mta cement plant has been put into production recently in Changjiang Li Autonomous County, South China’s Hainan Province, after construction for one year and a half. The plant,

Saudi Cement Co to import 500,000t clinker

04 July 2005, Published under Cement News

Saudi cement producer Saudi Cement Company (SCC) has signed an agreement to import 500,000t of clinker, used for cement production, local media reports. The move is aimed at