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South Africa forecast

Estimates are that southern Africa will need about 24Mt of cement a year by 2014. Question is whether local cement industry can deliver.     Projected demand derives from the average economic for...
News - 21 September 2007

Ashaka Cement Relocates Communities

Ashaka Cement Company has relocated three communities affected by its quarry activities at its factory in Bajoga of Funa-Kaye local government area of Gombe state. They were moved to a place of t...
News - 19 September 2007

Local cement production exceeded 1.1Mt in Jan-Aug 2007

Azerbaijan produced 1.135 million tons of cement during the first eight months of 2007, with a 3.9% increase from the first eight months of 2006. 11.9 thousand tons of cement had been in stock by ...
News - 19 September 2007

Cement kiln incineration appeal begins

The 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 effor...
News - 18 September 2007

Lafarge Langkawi prioritises local market, Malaysia

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd’s plant here will sell most of its output in the domestic market due to rising demand, senior manager Chong fatt San said today.     He attributed the demand increase t...
News - 14 September 2007

Lafarge trying to stay hearing that will look into tyre burning plan

Lafarge has launched an 11th-hour appeal to stop an independent hearing that will review Ontario’s decision to permit the cement company to burn tires at its eastern Ontario plant in Bath.     Th...
News - 12 September 2007

Azerbaijan and Lafarge still fail to agree on new plant

The Azerbaijan Government and   Lafarge cannot reach agreement on the location to construct a new cement plant, Economic Development Minister of Azerbaijan Heydar Babayev said.    "We have been i...
News - 10 September 2007

Another cement plant likely in Himachal Pradesh, India

The industry department in Himachal Pradesh (HP) has started conducting initial surveys for exploring the possibilities of setting up a cement plant in Sunni area of Shimla district. Sources in th...
News - 10 September 2007

Malawi cement producer invests in limestone-mining as Zim supply dwindles

Malawian cement producer Lafarge Portland says it is investing US$75m in a new limestone-mining project at Chenkumbi Hills, in Malawi’s southern district of Machinga. The cement producer, which h...
News - 07 September 2007

Bamburi moves on disputed site

Bamburi Cement has begun exploratory drilling for limestone in Kanziku and Mathima locations of the newly-created Mutomo District.     The Sh50-million exercise is expected to take approximately ...
News - 05 September 2007