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Holcim opens new slag crushing plant

Holcim yesterday inaugurated its new, Euro 28.5m slag crushing plant in Dunkerque in northern France. The site will ...

Lafarge to invest US$90m to reconstruct Aceh plant

Lafarge SA will invest US$90m to rebuild a cement plant in Aceh, Indonesia, destroyed by the tsunamis December 2004, ...

CRH is pushing up Irish cement prices

CRH has spent EUR 168m on acquisitions during the first six months of 2005, seven deals in Europe and 17 in North Ame...

Taiheiyo 2004/05 shipments up 1.6% to 38.5Mt

Taiheiyo Cement Corporation saw turnover ease by 0.8% to Y72,686m (EUR 6417m) in the year to the 31st of March, with ...

Heidelberg investors sell only 0.01% of shares to Spohn last week, Germany

HeidelbergCement AG shareholders holding only 11,611 shares, or 0.01% of voting rights, have accepted Spohn Cement Gm...

Mexico cement industry trims 2005 outlook

Mexico’s cement industry has trimmed its output forecast for 2005 to a rise of between 2.5-3 per cent and per c...

Siam City Cement says rising costs to damp 2005 profit growth

Thailand’s second-largest cement maker Siam City Cement PCL expects its net profit growth this year to be lower...

Cement production to achieve 1Mt, Brazil

Brazil expects to produced around 1Mt more of cement this year. In 2004, the companies active in the sector produced ...

Southern Province cement H1 profit up 14%

Saudi Arabia’s Southern Province Cement Co first-half net profit rose 14 per cent to 323 million riyals ($86m),...

Cement sales rise on construction boom, India

Cement sales rose strongly in June as firms stepped up construction activity across the country spurred by strong gro...