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Demand triggers record cement sales

Last 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 markets

Despite 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 group

National 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 Cement

Cimpor 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 year

The 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 Bangkok

Holcim 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 119.4Mt

The 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 market

Dry 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 sales

South 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