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Infrastructure projects to boost cement demand

Despite a predicted fall in consumer purchasing power as a result of higher interest rates, cement demand is expected...

Peru’s November sales rise 13.3 per cent

Peru’s overall cement sales in November rose a sharp 13.3% to 432,110t from the 381,250t sold in the same month...

Cement production up by 34 per cent, Ukraine

In November, cement production rose by 34% compared with November 2004, to 941,000t, the State Statistics Committee d...

Cement factories told to go green

Cement producers PT Semen Cibinong and PT Indocement Tbk were ordered to undergo environmental audits and to construc...

MP impressed by cement plant, UK

Rugby MP Jeremy Wright took a journey forward in time to find out what the future could hold for Rugby Cement and the...

South Africa to start burning tyres

South Africa’s cement industry is to start burning tyres to fuel its kilns. The initiative is intended to diversify t...

Lafarge announces further increases in cement capacity

The Paris-based global leader in cement is spending €125m in a new kiln and associated production facilities at its R...

Taiwan Regulator fines cement cartel

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission said Thursday it fined 21 local cement companies a total of NT$210m (US$6.3m) fo...

Semen Padang reports higher net profits

PT Semen Padang, a unit of PT Semen Gresik, Indonesia, set the target of net profit of IDR212bn, representing an incr...

Cement industry complains about CO² certificates

The Austrian cement industry is threatening to shut down its kilns temporarily if the price of legally mandated CO² c...