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UltraTech full-year hit by operational costs

UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla Group company, today announced its financial results for the year ended 31 March 2014. Full-year net sales stood at INR58.32bn compared to INR53.91bn in the cor...
News - 21 July 2014

Lafarge Holcim antitrust reviews ‘on-track’

Holcim and Lafarge are in "advanced" discussions with European antitrust regulators over their proposed merger, Bernard Fontana, chief executive of Holcim, told the Wall Street Journal. Earlier t...
News - 21 July 2014

Vicat to take full control of Indian joint venture

Vicat is to take 100 per cent control of Vicat Sagar Cements after agreeing to buy out Sagar Cements from the joint venture company. An agreement has been reached whereby Sagar Cements will sell...
News - 16 July 2014

OCL India inaugurates Bengal Cement Works

OCL India Ltd, the flagship associate company of Dalmia Cement Bharat Ltd, announced the commissioning of its cement manufacturing unit at West Midnapore, West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee, Chie...
News - 15 July 2014

PetroCem 2014

Cement producers from Russia, CIS countries and eastern Europe gathered at the Astoria Hotel in St Petersburg, Russia, for the Eighth PetroCem international cement conference and exhibition on 28-...
Articles - 15 July 2014

LH Merger update: speed is of the essence

Lafarge and Holcim have finally released further details of their proposed merger, some two months after the initial announcement. On 7 July, the companies identified shared assets , includi...
International Cement Review Editor's Blog - 14 July 2014

Iran first-quarter exports exceed 5Mt

Iran exported over 5.07Mt of cement and clinker during the first quarter of the Iranian year, according to local news reports. In the third Iranian calendar month of Khordad (22 May - 21 June 201...
News - 14 July 2014

India: Shree's Aurangabad plant begins commercial operations

Shree Cement has commissioned 2Mta grinding capacity at Aurangabad in Bihar and informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on 10 July that the plant was now in commercial operation. "...the company...
News - 11 July 2014

India: CMA seeks fairer taxes for cement

The Indian Cement Manufacturers Association (CMA) has requested in its pre-budget memorandum 2014-15 that cement be stipulated as 'Declared Goods', so that it is put on an equal footing with other...
News - 10 July 2014

Who controls cement trade?

Global seaborne cement and clinker trade is controlled by the owners of the exporting and distributing cement plants, and (even more so) by the owners of the receiving bulk cement terminals and gr...
Articles - 09 July 2014