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Lafarge pours efforts into innovative new R&D facilityLafarge’s has just opened a Euro 10m advanced concrete testing laboratory in France part of which will be used to promote two new specialist products: Extensia and Chronolia, products which accoun...News - 04 October 2007 |
Lafarge Group Expands in SichuanLafarge plans to further expand in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan where it is capable of producing 5.5Mt of cement per year in Sichuan, after successfully acquiring Sichuan Shuangma ...News - 04 October 2007 |
Azerbaijan offers Lafarge limestone depositThe Azerbaijani government has made proposal for France’s Lafarge on the occasion of a raw materials site for construction of a new cement factory. Heydar Babayev, the minister for economic develo...News - 03 October 2007 |
Ashaka Relocates Communities Over Quarry ActivitiesSpeaking during a visit to the Ashaka works, Nigeria, the Co-President, Cement Division of Lafarge Group, owners of Ashaka, who is in charge of Africa, Mr. Guillaume Roux, said the resettlement of...News - 02 October 2007 |
Sumpreme Court allows cost benefit study for mining firmsThe Indian Supreme Court has allowed the central empowered committee (CEC) to file an “environment cost benefit analysis” on degradation of environment and forests by mining companies, including F...News - 01 October 2007 |
Vorotantim invests US$450mil in Florida, after the cement marketVotorantim Cimentos has wrapped up the acquisition of the concrete company Prestige in Florida (US) for US$200m and begun the construction of a new cement plant at Sumter, a US$250m project to be ...News - 28 September 2007 |
1Mta Shuangma Cement project starts productionThe first phase cement project with annual output capacity of 1Mt of Shuangma Cement Factory in Gongxian of Sichuan Province, southwest China, which was acquired by Lafarge Shui On, started produ...News - 28 September 2007 |
Lafarge Canada appeal beginsThe long-awaited hearing into Lafarge Canada’s controversial proposal to burn tires, plastics and other waste in a 34-year old cement kiln near Kingston, Ontario has begun, despite last-ditch effo...News - 26 September 2007 |
Lafarge’s Romanian succesRomanian Lafarge Cement, expects its turnover to increase by 30 per cent YoY to €300m, much more generous than an earlier forecast. The company revised up its 2007 target based on the 84 per cent ...News - 25 September 2007 |
Lafarge to see firmer demand for cement next year, MalaysiaLafarge Malayan Cement Bhd is expected to see firmer demand next year as the bulk of the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) projects would be implemented then. AmResearch said in a report that Lafarge’s...News - 24 September 2007 |