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Holcim H1 net profit seen up, price hikes help

Holcim , the world’s second biggest cement maker, is expected to report a 34 per cent rise in first-half net pr...

Investment funds eye Lafarge roof unit

At least a dozen investment funds and an industrial group are studying the potential acquisition of building material...

Indonesia July cement sales up 2.6%

Indonesia’s domestic cement sales in July rose 2.6 per cent compared with a year earlier, the first annual increase s...

Gulf Cement Co to begin production by mid-2008

The Gulf Cement Company (GCC), which is being listed at the Doha Securities Market (DSM) today, said it hopes to begi...

Vietnam: Cement consumption to decrease

The domestic cement demand in the third quarter of this year is predicted to decrease dramatically over the first and...

New cement plant registration eased, Philippines

The Board of Investments (BoI) has relaxed the rules on the registration of cement projects to enable foreigners to w...

Lithuania reports cement shortage

Lithuania`s producers of building materials, as predicted, have come across the shortage of cement in August, with th...

Rebate on cement exports may be allowed, Pakistan

Cement manufacturers have approached the government to allow rebate on cement export as prices in the country stabili...

Ukraine Cement output up 8.8 per cent

Ukraine’s cement output rose by 8.8 per cent YoY to 7.223Mt in the first seven months of 2006, the State Statis...

Lafarge banking on government plans

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd (LMC) is banking on fast implementation of the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) projects, the Gov...