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Holcim Schmidheiny in Capital Hike

Swiss industrialist Thomas Schmidheiny, the single biggest shareholder of cement company Holcim, will participate in ...

Russian cement manoeuvres

The Metallurg aluminium holding company (the Leningrad region) has sold its-owned Pikalevo cement plant. The Inteco c...

Cementir ready for Turkish growth

Francesco Caltagirone, the chairman of the Italian cement group Cementir, yesterday told the group’s shareholde...

Turkey Exports 600,000t to Iraq

Turkey exported 600,000t of cement to Iraq in 2003, up from 40,000t in 2002, Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Asso...

Lafarge sees more China opportunities

Lafarge wants to invest more in China and thinks Beijing’s efforts to cool the booming industry could allow it ...

Garadagh profits

The undistributed profits of Garadagh Cement reached AzM 42055.944 mn last year as against AzM 13814.076 mn by the be...

ABB gains new Iranian orders

The Swiss unit of Swiss-Swedish electrical engineering company ABB received two orders for SFr33m ($25.34m) in Iran, ...

Italy Cementir Plans Acquisitions in Turkey, North America

Italian cement company Cementir, a unit of Italian construction company Caltagirone, plans future acquisitions in Tur...

Portugal Cimpor To Increase Output by 44 per cent

Portugal’s cement producer Cimpor expects to increase its output by 44 per cent, up to 31.8Mt of cement by 2008...

Kuwait Portland Cement

Kuwaiti cement trader Kuwait Portland Cement Company posted a net profit of US$5.6m for the first quarter of 2004, do...