Cement News tagged: International
New grinding mill
Gujarat Ambuja Cement Ltd (GACL), the fourth-largest cement producer in India, will be setting up a 1.2Mt grinding unit at Dadri in Western Uttar Pradesh with an investment of about Rs100 crore. GCAL
Circle Cement to upgrade
CIRCLE Cement Limited has embarked on a plant refurbishment programme in efforts aimed at bolstering its market competitiveness as well as enhancing production capacity. The company is currently opera
End to Mexican tariffs?
Many US Companies would like to see the duties removed from Mexican products to ease shortages. The US construction industry, suffering from a cement shortage that is raising building costs and delay
Cementir’s strategic options
The announcement that Cementir is to take over Aalborg Portland in Denmark and the Danish Unicon ready-mix business, might provide some refreshing news for the independent cement sector, although this
Argentina’s Loma Negra Seeks Buyer
Reported in the Wall Street journal, Argentina’s largest cement company, is putting itself up for sale in a deal that could attract global industry powerhouses, people familiar with the matter s
Joy for Rinker
A competitor’s problems in the US are likely to translate into profits for Australian-based Rinker Materials. Just as the world’s oil producers continue to struggle meeting global demand,
Incehsa denies interest in rival
Honduran cement company Incehsa has dismissed speculation that its French parent company Lafarge has launched a $US50mn bid for its Honduran competitor Cemento América. Honduran daily La Prensa, citin
Cements crumble on price news
A report that Egypt’s government was looking into recent cement price rises dragged down the price of some cement stocks on an Egyptian bourse which was broadly unchanged on Thursday, traders sa
Could Cemex manoeuvres backfire?
The Mary Nour saga continues apace although for the crew idling time away in the port of Altamira, it might look as if they will have to wait some further time before they are eventually able to disch
Argentine cement maker seeks buyer
Loma Negra, Argentina’s largest cement company, is putting itself up for sale in a deal that could attract global industry powerhouses, people familiar with the matter said. Bankers say the com
Siam Cement to up imports
Siam Cement Group plans to increase its construction material imports from China over the next five years to the tune of Bt6 billion as Thailand’s largest building-supplies maker taps China’s lower pr
Hercules Cement to reopen rail spur
Hercules Cement Co. plans to spend $750,000 to reconstruct a rail spur that will allow the Stockertown company to keep its kilns running as close to year-round as possible. "When we have snowy weathe
Melón posts profits
Chilean cement company Empresas Melón (owned by Lafarge) posted a 12.8bn-peso (US$20m) consolidated net profit in the first half, up 11.2% from 1H03, the company said in a filing to the country’
Not for consumption
Hima Cement, has donated four tonnes of cement to the Child Welfare and Adoption Society. The society runs Nsambya Babies Home, which looks after helpless children. The cement is
Organised protest against Mary Nour
About 60 workers representing the Mexican cement workers union have staged a dockside protest against the discharge of some 27,000t of Russian cement from the Mary Nour.
FLS Industries Sells Units To Cementir For DKK4.4B
FLS Industries today (Thursday) said it had signed an agreement with Cementir SpA, the Italian cement group (CEM.MI) to sell all its shares in Aalborg Portland A/S and Unicon A/S, its two wholly-owned