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PCA: housing drop contributes to lower forecast for cement

According to the most recent forecast from the Economic Research department at Portland Cement Association (PCA) alth...

Egypt’s Torah Cement nine-month net up 36 per cent

Egypt’s Torah Portland Cement made a net profit of E£262.7m (US$45.9m) in the first nine months of 2006, 36 per...

Bulgaria operations contribute to Italcementi nine-mo profit gain

The Bulgarian operations of cement major Italcementi have once again flattered the bottomline of the company as shown...

Akcansa nine-month 2006 net profit rises 49%

Turkish cement producer Akcansa booked a net profit of US$94m for the first nine months of 2006, up 49 per cent on th...

Portugal Cimpor mulls wind parks construction in Northern Africa

Cimpor is in the process of studying participation in projects for the production of wind energy in Morocco and Tunisia

Pioneer Cement lays foundations for the future

Pioneer Cement LLC, a joint venture between India and Ras Al Khaimah producing 1Mt of cement was inaugurated yesterda...

Lafarge confirms it is also importing cement into SA

Lafarge disclosed on Thursday that the company was importing cement to meet a short-term supply squeeze, the first sh...

Chinese companies to establish cement plant in Abyan

Yemeni Assas company signed Wednesday with Chinese CMC and Hong Kong Mix More companies a partnership agreement to es...

Asia provides the main growth at Holcim

For the first nine months of 2006, Holcim increased turnover by 30.5% to SFr17,514m (EUR11,155m) with the EBITDA adva...

Strong cement growth drives further expansion at PPC, South Africa

Sustained double digit growth in cement demand has resulted in the domestic industry reaching full capacity according...