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CSN buys Chinese equipment

Chinese machinery and equipment manufacturing companies have moved into the Brazilian cement sector after Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) Cimentos signed a deal with two companies for the con...
News - 29 August 2006

Cement price ceiling

The Egyptian minister of Trade and Industry has announced a ceiling ex-works price for domestic bagged cement at EGP290/t (EUR40/t). This comes just after the anti-trust investigation launched in ...
News - 25 August 2006

Investment funds eye Lafarge roof unit

At least a dozen investment funds and an industrial group are studying the potential acquisition of building materials group Lafarge’s roofing business, according to reports from La Tribune newspa...
News - 22 August 2006

Lafarge banking on government plans

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd (LMC) is banking on fast implementation of the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) projects, the Government’s approval to raise cement ceiling price and new products to improve it...
News - 21 August 2006

DOE and Lafarge reach agreement

US Department of Environmental Quality Director Steven E. Chester today announced that the agency has reached an agreement with Lafarge Midwest over allowable mercury levels from the company’s Alp...
News - 21 August 2006

Cement makers unlikely to invest more if no price revision, Malaysia

Cement manufacturers are unlikely to pour in more investment to expand capacity unless there is a revision in the ceiling price of the building material, an industry player said.     Lafarge Mala...
News - 18 August 2006

Govt to offload shares in cement industry, Kenya

The government will soon offload more of its shareholding in the cement industry to the public through the Nairobi stock exchange, in a bid to certify the requirements of the Capital Markets Autho...
News - 18 August 2006

Bamburi defends stake in Portland

Bamburi Cement Company managing director Michael Purchercos addresses the media outside the factory in Athi River during the launch of the firm’s road safety week yesterday.   Managing director M...
News - 18 August 2006

Fix anomalies at Portland

Over the past month, East African Portland Cement Company has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Arguably, this could be the very reason major shareholders of the company met last week to...
News - 17 August 2006

Lafarge to offer lighthouse holidays?

Lafarge has paid more than UK£100,000 for a redundant East Lothian lighthouse put up for sale at the end of last year. The has its Dunbar factory on neighbouring land. The 40m-high Barns Ness lig...
News - 15 August 2006