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Mexican standoff continues in Indonesia

The Indonesian government remains at loggerheads with Mexico’s Cemex SA over the latter’s investment in s...

Philippines Republic Cement sees tough year

Republic Cement Corp, part of the worldwide Lafarge empire, expects a tough year in 2005 as it grapples with rising p...

Cementir: weaker Italian performance offset by...

Helped by the acquisitions from FLS Industries last year, Cementir increases its first quarter turnover by 140.8% to ...

China’s output of cement in March 2005

China produced 72.794Mt of cement in March 2005. The output in January-March reached 172.296Mt, up 1.2 per cent year ...

Italcementi gets into shipowning

Italcementi, a publicly listed cement maker, is poised to enter the handymax bulker market as an owner. It wants to a...

Rajasthan may slip up on cement output

The largest cement producing state in India, Rajasthan, where no substantial capacity additions have occurred in the ...

Laos cement update

With more than US$10m being used to buy imported cement, news that a local factory is pushing ahead with production i...

Saudi Yamama Cement Q1

Saudi cement producer Yamama Cement Company (YCC) posted a net profit of 102.8 mln Saudi riyals ($27.4m) for the firs...

Higher demand pushes Holcim Romania Q1

Holcim Romania, a unit of the Swiss cement company Holcim Ltd., said on Thursday its first-quarter turnover rose 10 p...

Titan looks to the USA and Bulgaria for growth in 2005

Titan’s turnover in the first quarter of 2005 grew by 4.3% to EUR 57.3m and the operating profit at the EBITDA level ...