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SG Eyes IDR8 trillion revenue

Amid the slower cement market on the first half of the year, PT Semen Gresik Tbk (SG) set the sales growth target of ...

South Korea begins selling stake in Ssangyong Cement

Creditors of South Korea’s Ssangyong Cement have started the sale process of a 46 percent stake in the cement m...

Cement demand forecast to recover, Indonesia

Indonesian cement demand is estimated to recover in the second quarter this year after in the first quarter of 2006 s...

UAE ministry stops bid to raise cement price

The UAE Ministry of Economy has thwarted an attempt by the country’s cement producers to raise cement prices by...

Aditya Birla group June cement shipment up

India’s Aditya Birla group on Monday said its cement shipment in June rose 9.4 per cent on year to 2.47Mt. The ...

IFC agrees $35m Yemen cement loan

The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, has agreed a $35m loan to the ...

Cement firms add 3.65Mt of fresh capacity, India

Cement companies in India have registered fresh capacity additions of 3.65Mt during Apr-Jun 2006 (about 7Mt for whole...

Steel mergers to impact on shipping?

The now approved Arcelor-Mittal merger has provoked a wave of reactions amongst steelmakers; the Chinese ones of cour...

Cement dust is ’no real risk to health’

Fears that dumped cement kiln dust would be a risk to health cannot be proved experts say. Castle Cement wants to ti...

Cementos Molins net profit increase, Spain

Spain’s Cementos Molins plans to increase to EUR100m its net profit in 2006, compared to EUR84.1m registered in 2005.