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Demand triggers record cement salesLast year was a record year for South Africa’s cement industry as it rebounded from the virtually stagnant situation that characterised the 1990s. Demand from the region, which includes South Afri...News - 04 May 2005 |
Rates holding firm in unsettled marketsDespite the uncertainty some analysts have recently expressed (again) about the course and speed of the Chinese economy - particularly concerning the steel demand, elsewhere the need to ensure the...News - 13 April 2005 |
Black women’s alliance takes stake in quarrying groupNational African Women’s Alliance (Nawa) has acquired a 26 per cent stake in aggregate quarrying company South Coast Stone Crushers for an undisclosed sum, effectively launching the black economic...News - 05 April 2005 |
Cimpor To Buy Cape Verde CementCimpor said Friday it has formalised the acquisition of the entire share capital of Nordicave Trading Industrial, Lda., which sole asset is a participation of 86.65 per cent in Cimentos de Cabo Ve...News - 04 April 2005 |
Cement sales soared to new heights last yearThe past year was an outstanding year for the South African cement industry with several sales records being broken, John Sheath, marketing manager of the Cement & Concrete Institute, has reported...News - 10 February 2005 |
Holcim to stage global prize-giving in BangkokHolcim Group has Bangkok as the venue for the awards ceremony for its global contest to find works that mark genuine milestones in the advancement of sustainable construction. The US$2-millio...News - 10 February 2005 |
Lafarge pushes cement sales ahead to 119.4MtThe turnover at Lafarge rose by an underlying 7.7 per cent in 2004 to €14,436m, with cement accounting for €7,403m (51.3 per cent). Turnover in the cement division rose by 9.2 per cent, though the...News - 28 January 2005 |
Mixed signals from the marketDry bulk markets have continued to slide last week but on Friday the general feeling was that next week will see a comeback of charterers particularly in the East, which should reverse the trend i...News - 26 January 2005 |
First signs of weakness?After the very prompt reaction of the market, which started mid-last week, it now seems that charterers have disappeared from the charts! The end of last week was very quiet and rates started to f...News - 18 January 2005 |
PPC sees full-year profit up on growing salesSouth Africa’s biggest cement producer, Pretoria Portland Cement, expects full-year operating profits to increase thanks to robust sales, the company said on Friday. "We still expect that local c...News - 17 January 2005 |