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CVC in talks over Holcim Lafarge assets

Private equity firm CVC is in talks with Singapore's Government Investment Corporation over possible joint bids for Holcim and Lafarge assets ahead of their planned merger, Sky News reported on Tu...
News - 13 August 2014

Nigeria: Ashaka trebles profit in 1H14

Nigerian Lafarge subsidiary Ashaka Cement has reported a 1H14 profit after tax of NGN3.51bn (US$21.5m), a 201 per cent increase than its 1H13 figure of NGN1.15bn. Pretax profits at the company sur...
News - 11 August 2014

Bamburi posts first-half pretax profit drop

Bamburi Cement posted a 28 per cent drop in first-half pretax profit to KES2.3bn (US$26.2m) from KES3.2bn a year earlier. The Lafarge group company attributed the decline to rising power costs, in...
News - 08 August 2014

New alternative fuel for Lafarge Canada BC cement plant

Lafarge Canada Inc and Van Houtte Coffee Services Inc are teaming up to replace a portion of Lafarge's fossil fuels energy at the Kamloops, British Columbia (BC) cement plant with used K-Cup® pack...
News - 08 August 2014

Holcim

The proposed merger with Lafarge in 2015 is likely to result in the sale of Holcim's operations in France, other than the Atkirch works and the operations in the Haut Rhin market, plus Hungary, Se...
Corporate - 06 August 2014

Lafarge

The proposed merger with Holcim is likely to result in the sale of Lafarge's operations in Romania, Germany, the Mannersdorf works in Austria, the wholly-owned operations on Réunion and the intere...
Corporate - 06 August 2014

Algeria to become net exporter?

Algeria's cement imports have increased by 30 per cent to US$283.9m in 1H14, according to the country's Customs Office. In terms of volumes, imports reached 3.086Mt in the six first months of 2...
News - 06 August 2014

Mauritius opens LafargeHolcim merger inquiry

The Competition Commission of Mauritius (CCM) has opened an inquiry to determine whether the merger of Holcim and Lafarge will have a negative impact on the competition in the island's cement mark...
News - 06 August 2014

Lafarge & Holcim propose Brazilian divestments

Lafarge and Holcim have published a list of proposed asset disposals to Brazilian Competition authority CADE, as part of efforts to help win regulatory approval for their planned merger. The joi...
News - 05 August 2014

Cemtech and CO2

Dr Clark particularly enjoyed the Cemtech Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur in June and also the three-day technical training workshop that immediately followed the main event. However, preparations...
Articles - 05 August 2014