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India Min: Govt keeping a close watch on cement prices

India’s federal government is keeping a close watch on cement prices and hopes that cement companies will "mode...

Cemex provides guidance for the first quarter of 2007

Cemex announced today that it expects EBITDA for the quarter ending March 31, 2007 to be about US$830m an increase of...

Cement production slows in April-Jan, India

Indian cement production growth slowed by more than half to 6.8 per cent in January against 15.4 per cent in the sam...

China’s local governments ordered to scrap old cement factories

The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planning agency, has outlined plans for di...

GCC to open Colorado cement plant in 2H ’07

Mexican cement maker Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua SA said Wednesday that it plans to start production at its $220m cem...

Mexico’s Cemex hit by souring US mortgage sector

Cemex has seen its share price fall four per cent this week on concerns that trouble brewing in the US housing sector...

JK Cement new greenfield plant

JK Cement is constructing a 3.5Mt greenfield plant in Karnataka. RG Bagla, Group Executive President of JK Cement add...

Lafarge Moldovan unit net profit down 15.6% in 2006

The net profit of Moldovan cement producer Ciment, majority owned by Lafarge, fell by 15.6% last year to 43m lei ($3....

Cimpor 2006 profit seen at EUR276m

Cimpor’s net profit is seen at EUR276m (US$363.6m), up 3.8 per cent, according to the average projections of a ...

Zambia to increase cement importation

The quantities of cement currently being imported are not sufficient to meet the huge demand on the local market of Z...