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European cement majors: first half trendsThe last week has seen three leading European cement majors release first-half 2012 results: Lafarge, HeidelbergCement and Italcementi. The latest figures appear to confirm the upturn in North Ame...News - 06 August 2012 |
Lafarge: July '12Lafarge's 1H turnover increased by an underlying 4.9 per cent to €7614m and the EBITDA rose by 7.8 per cent to €1523m, while the trading profit increased by 14.7 per cent to €1022m. A lower €46m g...Corporate - 03 August 2012 |
Lafarge South Africa import concernsLafarge South Africa unit may ask country’s the International Trade Administration Commission to protect the market from alleged low quality imports from Pakistan, Business Day reported, citing La...News - 30 July 2012 |
Behind the numbersThe Cement Sustainability Initiative’s “Getting the numbers right” project has seen the creation of a sizeable and influential database on cement plant emissions and energy consumption, which has ...Articles - 30 July 2012 |
South Africa's PPC invests in Ethiopian cement firmSouth Africa's Pretoria Portland Cement and a state investment body South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) have jointly secured a 47 per cent equity stake in the Habesha Cement Sh...News - 26 July 2012 |
Forging closer customer linksDr Thomas Borghoff, Beumer’s managing director of sales in Beckum, Germany, speaks with ICR about the company’s recent acquisitions and its business strategies going forward. The German technology...Articles - 23 July 2012 |
Breaking ground on new plantsCement plant construction has begun to ease off in former cement production hotspots such as Central Europe and North America but new contracts are forging ahead in the Crimea, South America and m...Articles - 16 July 2012 |
PPC in US$133m deal with black investorsSouth African cement maker Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) is to sell a 6.5 per cent stake to its staff and black investors in a deal worth about US$133.4m. PPC said the broad-based black economi...News - 12 July 2012 |
South Africa’s first-quarter sales rise 6.7%South African cement sales rose 6.7 per cent YoY in the first quarter of 2012 to 2.64Mt, data by the Cement and Concrete Association (C&CI) showed. Average daily sales for the 1Q12 were 41,863t,...News - 04 July 2012 |
Managing African cementSub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing strong growth of around 7-10 per cent CAGR in the majority of its cement markets for the past 15 years. This has led to quite a dramatic evolution of the i...Articles - 27 June 2012 |