Cement News tagged: International
Nesher Cement to build private gas-driven power plant
Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises is Israel’s sixth company to announce plans to build a private natural gas-driven power station that will compete with IEC.
Orascom to invest in cement industry in Pakistan
A senior delegation of Orascom Telecom SAE of Egypt met with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in Islamabad recently and discussed opportunities in Pakistan’s fast-growing telecom sector. Mr. Naguib Sawiris
APCAC Conference Trinidad
In his role as APCAC President, Christian Agnes of Lafarge Ciments Antilles had the pleasure of opening the APCAC XXI Technical Conference 2004 held at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel, Port of Spain. More t
Cimpor To Buy 54% stake in Mat Atlantico
Cimpor-Cimentos de Portugal said Monday it has agreed to buy a 54 per cent stake in Spain’s Materiales del Atlantico for EUR4.55m. In a statement, Cimpor said the transaction will be carried ou
Spanish Goliat to invest
Spanish cement maker Goliat, a subsidiary of Italian sector company Italcementi, will invest Euro 80m ($102.2 mln) in the modernisation of its factory in Malaga, Andalusia region, southern Spain, it w
India’s Somani Cement to build new plant
Somani Cement Company Ltd. is planning to set up a new 360,000tpa cement plant in India’s Gujarat state, the firm’s managing director said on Monday. The company will invest about 1.5 bil
Lipetskcement statistics
Russian cement producer Lipetskcement produced 1.3Mt of cement in Jan-Sept 2004, a 8.6 per cent rise against in the same period 2003. Packed cement output was around 185,000 tons (+12.7 per cent). In
Holcim invests in La Cemento
The Ecuadorian Cement company La Cemento Nacional has changed its name to Holcim Ecuador. The Swiss group Holcim entered La Cemento in 1976 as a minority shareholder, but since October 5th the
Polysius commissions two 10,000-tpd kiln lines in China
Krupp Polysius has just commissioned the second kiln line for Anhui Conch, in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, making the completion of the two 10,000tpd Polysius kiln completions for China’s largest cement
Lucky Cement’s expansion programme
Lucky Cement, Pakisatan is planning to build an additional production line of 8400tpd at its existing Site in Bannu Division. The company has already entered into agreements with the suppliers of mach
Cemex: Mexican margins down
For the first nine months of 2004, Cemex increased its operating profit at the EBITDA level by 19.1% to US$1,873.14m, with the trading profit (EBIT) pushing ahead by 25.7% to US$1,376.1m on a turnover
Unknown fate for Cement Corp factories
Despite a history of riots, worker deaths and a clamour for voluntary redundancies, Indian state government is unmoved to privatise three factories of Cement Corporation: Dala, Chunar and Churk . The
Portland cement and clinker from Mexico
The US Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on gray portland cement and clinker from Mexico until Decembe
UltraTech Cement to step up exports
ULTRATECH Cement will increase its cement and clinker exports to 4Mt this financial year, up from 3.5Mt during the previous fiscal, said Mr Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman UltraTech Cement Ltd, at a ne
Gujarat Ambuja plans captive agro-fuel based power plants
GUJARAT Ambuja Cements Ltd is setting up two captive power plants, a 24 mega-watt plant in Punjab and a 60 MW plant in Gujarat that would run on both coal and agro-based fuels. This would perhaps be
French banks fund equipment imports
Sociéte General SG and BNP Paribas of France yesterday signed a credit agreement with the Vietnam Construction Im-Export Corporation (Vinaconex) in Hanoi to finance equipment imports for the first pha