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Athi River Mining plans South African plant

Athi River Mining (ARM) plans to set up a cement production factory in South Africa. The project is part of the company’s move to boost its revenue by nearly one-fifth, ARM chief executive Pradee...
News - 23 August 2011

FLSmidth 2Q dented by Libyan unrest

FLSmidth kept its full-year guidance unchanged when reporting a surprise drop in second-quarter profit, hit by unrest in North Africa. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) fell 15 per cent to...
News - 19 August 2011

Cimpor’s first-half turnover improves

Cimpor’s first half turnover improved by 5.7% to €1,149.58m and the EBITDA increased by the same percentage to €315.6m with Brazil, Turkey and China are proving to be the company’s top performers....
News - 18 August 2011

Kenya Athi River 1H profit rises, demand strong

Kenya’s Athi River Mining posted a 23 per cent rise in half-year pretax profit and said demand for cement in the region remained strong. Athi River posted a pretax profit of KES636.30m for the pe...
News - 08 August 2011

Messebo & National Cement team up for coal purchases

Following the government directive for cement factories to first use petcoke, and later coal, as alternative sources of energy, Messebo Cement Factory and National Cement SC have jointly imported ...
News - 02 August 2011

HeidelbergCement expects further advances in spite of higher energy costs

HeidelbergCement’s first half turnover rose by 9.5% to €5996m, but the EBITDA improved by a more modest 4.6% to €904.3m as energy costs rose and the trading profit advanced by 5.7% to €501.2m. The...
News - 01 August 2011

Lafarge

Lafarge has been given clearance by the Indian Supreme Court to resume limestone production in Meghalaya, which feeds the joint-venture cement works at Chhatak in Bangladesh. Lafarge has now recei...
Corporate - 31 July 2011

HeidelbergCement

HeidelbergCement inaugurated its new 2Mta integrated cement works at Novogurovsky in the Tula region, some 150 km south of Moscow, on 13 July. TulaCement represents an investment of some €300m and ...
Corporate - 31 July 2011

PPC blames cement shortage on flyash deliveries, Botswana

For the past month, there has been rumbling in the construction industry as to whether there is shortage of building cement or not.  One company owner in Gaborone told Gazette Business that he has...
News - 28 July 2011

Pakistan cement exports decline in FY2010-11?


During financial year 2010-11 (July-June) Pakistan exported 9.154Mt of cement at US$453.845m from 10.85Mt at US$484.004m in the corresponding period. This shows cement export fell by 15.65 per ce...
News - 26 July 2011