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Mexican GCC buys stake in top Bolivian cement firm

Mexican cement maker Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua has bought a 46.57 percent stake in Bolivia’s top cement maker...

Holcim Maroc H1 2005 net profit up

Holcim Maroc, a subsidiary of Swiss cement maker Holcim, posted a consolidated net profit of 169 mln Moroccan dirhams...

Egypt’s Orascom to build cement factory in Indonesia

Industry Minister Andung Nitimihardja said Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries plans to build a cement plan...

Danish Unicon, Frode Laursen set up company

Danish concrete company Unicon A/S and Danish transport and logistics company Frode Laursen A/S set up a joint compan...

Heidelberg Cement’s Bosnian unit to invest

Tvornica Cementa Kakanj (TCK), a Bosnian cement plant owned by German HeidelbergCement, said on Monday it would inves...

Higher freights expected this winter

By the end of the week, while dry bulk markets have started marking a pause in the quite strong rise they’ve e...

Energy costs trim Asia Cement growth

Asia Cement Plc, Thailand’s fourth largest cement maker, estimates a slight decline in sales growth to seven per cent...

Holcim says plant closure will not affect output

PT Semen Cibinong, a unit of Holcim, said the planned closure of one of its plants for seven months will not affect t...

CCC posts US$4.7m in 1H05 profits

Jamaica’s Caribbean Cement Company (CCC) posted a J$294m (US$4.7m) net profit during 1H05, practically unchange...

Pikalevsky Cement production up

In the first eight months of 2005, Pikalevsky Cement (the Leningrad Region) produced more than one million tonnes of ...