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Asian regional outlook 2013

Enrico Tanuwidjaja, RBS (Singapore), provides his assessment of the South East Asian economies at Cemtech Asia in Ja...

HeidelbergCement increases pre-tax profit by 52.1 per cent

HeidelbergCement's first half turnover was virtually unchanged at €6560.4m (-0.3 per cent), while the EBITDA improve...

Holcim Indonesia first-half sales decline 1.3%

PT Holcim Indonesia reported a decline in sales for the first six months of 2013, having registered a second consecu...

Oman Cement output declines on mill setback

Oman Cement posted a 3.1 per cent rise in net profit for the first half of 2013 to OMR9.3m (US$24.2m) compared to OM...

Titan's European profitability suffers

Titan's first-half turnover improved by 4.4 per cent to €571.9m but the EBITDA fell by 17.8 per cent to €92.2m as Eu...

Vulcan sees main growth coming from the residential market, USA

Vulcan Materials' first-half turnover increased by 3.8 per cent to US$1276.9m and the EBITDA rose by 32.4 per cent t...

Calderys announces Indonesian joint venture

Refactory solutions specialists Calderys has signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with Indonesian refractory manufa...

Lafarge Cement Zambia scales back exports to meet domestic needs

Lafarge Cement Zambia has reduced its exports by 15 per cent due to buoyant domestic construction market needs. Eug...

Ashaka Cement first-half pretax profit falls 54.4%, Nigeria

Ashaka Cement reported a 54.4 per cent decline in first-half 2013 pretax profit to NGN1.65bn (US$10.3m) from NGN3.55...

Standard & Poor’s downgrades China Shanshui Cement, China

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on China-based cement producer ...

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