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WAPCO unveils new cement brand

Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc, has announced the launch of a new product, Elephant Supaset Cement.  Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Samy Abdelkader, said at th...
News - 22 November 2010

Lafarge intends to cut more debt

Lafarge, the world’s biggest cement maker, is focused on improving profit and cutting debt in the next 18 months as it cuts investment and costs and steps up asset sales, Chief Financial Officer J...
News - 22 November 2010

Lafarge workers respond to environmental protesters, Slovenia

Employees at LafargeCement, the Trbovlje-based subsidiary of the French cement maker, fear that they might lose their jobs over claims by environmentalists and locals that the company is making mo...
News - 19 November 2010

Lafarge places EUR1bn bond

Lafarge Thursday said it placed a EUR1bn bond with an eight year maturity and fixed annual coupon of 5.375% to institutional investors. The proceeds of the transaction will be used to refinance p...
News - 19 November 2010

Brazil: Lafarge firms position in the cement market

Lafarge has spotted the opportunities to expand its operations in Brazil that have become key for the expansion in Latin America, in the words of president Thierry Metro. Cement industry is in its...
News - 18 November 2010

Lafarge WAPCO introduces Supaset brand, Nigeria

Lafarge WAPCO Plc as disclosed that it has spent over EUR150m on Research and Development (R&D) in producing  the Elephant Supaset cement. Speaking, Mr. Samy Abdelkader, Managing Director/CEO, La...
News - 16 November 2010

Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe re-brands

Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe has unveiled its new brand and has pledged to spend a substantial amount of money on a three-month marketing and advertising campaign that kicks off this month. Communicat...
News - 15 November 2010

Slovenia PM orders new environmental report on Lafarge

Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor ordered Environment Minister Roko Zarnic to prepare a new environmental report for Lafarge Cement plant in Trbovlje and its waste incineration facility as he m...
News - 11 November 2010

Environmental impact of project unfounded: Lafarge

Facing protests from locals against its proposed cement plant at Nongkhlei in Meghalaya, Lafarge today said the fear on environmental degradation was unfounded. "The project is going to maintain ...
News - 10 November 2010

Lafarge to set high environmental standards at Meghalaya

Lafarge has said the company would maintain highest standards to protect the environment at the proposed cement plant site at Nongkhlei village in the limestone-rich Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya. Th...
News - 09 November 2010