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Cement industry expects to grow 8-9%

With the continued focus on infrastructure development and a boom in construction witnessed in many parts of the coun...

Construction supplier sales up 15%

Confirming the trend seen in previous months, the sales index of the Chilean construction sector’s wholesale pr...

Gujarat Ambuja’s Dec sales rise

Gujarat Ambuja cement has recorded a 11 per cent rise in cement despatches at 1.254Mt in December 2004 against 1.123M...

Lafarge to look again at Loma Negra?

Lafarge is reported to be interested in acquisition of the Argentine cement company Loma Negra. This Argentinian comp...

Cement exports rise in Pakistan

The export of cement recorded an increase of 58.52 percent to 777,352t in the first half (July-December) of the curre...

News from Andalas

Semen Andalas’ head of corporate communications Tri Rahman Batara says that its Lhonga plant had been seriously...

More plans from Vietnam

The State-owned Vietnam Cement Corporation has a plan to build a further eight cement plants and cement production li...

CRH sees FY pretax profits rising

CRH said its full-year profit before tax is expected to break the Euro 1bn level (2003: Euro 864m) for the first time...

Indonesia’s Semen Gresik may cut cement exports

Indonesia’s largest cement maker PT Semen Gresik may have to ask its units PT Semen Padang and PT Semen Tonasa ...

Hong Kong-listed Anhui Conch raises stake

Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd (ACCCL) and its subsidiary, Huaining Conch, are to acquire for 131.32 mln yuan a total of 4...