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New order for LORD Corporation

Following the successful installation of a LORD Fan Balancing System on the preheater ID fan at their Dunbar Works in Scotland, Lafarge Cement UK has opted to install the system at three additiona...
News - 19 January 2007

New arrivals at landfill site

Cement manufacturer Lafarge has taken delivery of two new machines which will operate at a waste disposal site.    Lafarge Aggregates, whose company have a cement works at Waterhouses, near Leek,...
News - 17 January 2007

No cement orders pending State decision, Mauritius

Although it was expected to do so, the cabinet did not take a decision on a possible increase in the price of cement last Friday. With the rise in CIF and the dollar rate, cement suppliers say the...
News - 16 January 2007

Orient plans cement unit in Rajasthan

The CK Birla group is betting big on cement. The Kolkata-based business conglomerate’s Orient Paper & Industries has recently won a limestone mining lease renewal case in Rajasthan and is planning...
News - 15 January 2007

Zambia needs more cement producers

The Zambian government should come up with incentives to encourage more companies to start cement manufacturing as a way to meet an increasing demand for the commodity, an official has said.    T...
News - 12 January 2007

China’s Jiangxi Cement denies takeover rumors

Jiangxi Wannianqing Cement Co Ltd has denied rumors that the company may be taken over by Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd or  Lafarge. In a statement filed to Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the company said...
News - 12 January 2007

Government to consolidate cement industry

Sixty key cement companies will become the industry leaders under a fresh consolidation, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).     The 60 will enjoy government suppo...
News - 11 January 2007

Lafarge in talks for Azerbaijan cement works

The question of building a new 1.5Mta cement plant in Azerbaijan  will be discussed at the meeting of the Azeri-French economic committee that began in Paris yesterday. Azer-press learned from sou...
News - 10 January 2007

Environmental groups file requests to appeal tyre burning at Lafarge Bath, Canada

Some of Canada’s top environmental lawyers are among nearly a dozen applicants requesting to appeal the province’s decision to let Lafarge burn tyres as fuel at an eastern Ontario cement plant.  ...
News - 08 January 2007

Belgium’s GBL raises Lafarge stake slightly

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert , the Belgian holding company controlled by the families of Albert Frere and Paul Desmarais, said on Wednesday it had slightly increased its stake in Lafarge.    The AMF ...
News - 04 January 2007