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Cement companies look at further investments, Indonesia

Some Indonesian cement companies are going to realize their investments to construct new plants in order to anticipate increasing market demands. Head of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) M...
News - 31 July 2006

Lafarge to invest $450m in two plants, Indonesia

Lafarge is  planning to build two new cement plants in Indonesia, a senior government official told Dow Jones reporters on Thursday.    "They will invest around US$450m  to build two cement plant...
News - 27 July 2006

Lafarge inaugurates its first cement grinding plant in Vietnam

Lafarge, which first moved into the Ho Chi Minh City region in 2001 with ready mix concrete operations, has just inaugurated its first cement grinding plant on the Long Tau river, 25km south-east ...
News - 26 July 2006

Lafarge set to gain in Malaysia

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd, has been singled out by AmResearch in a report released yesterday.  With its 44 per cent market share, Lafarge was also the leader in the domestic cement market, said t...
News - 25 July 2006

Nigerian cement war affecting prices

A fight among the cement industry’s major stakeholders over bulk cement import allocations has forced government to cancel the importation of some 2.5Mt of cement, and may have resulted in local p...
News - 24 July 2006

Lafarge moves closer to Harleyville expansion

About 70 people gathered at the Harleyville Community Center Tuesday night for a public hearing organized by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, according to Plant Manager Raf...
News - 21 July 2006

Lafarge: Black empowerment deal

Lafarge has announced a R1.1bn (EUR 120m) Broad-Based Economic Empowerment (BEE) deal, in line with the South African Government policy to transform the country, redress past racial inequalities a...
News - 21 July 2006

Lafarge’s Richmond Plant celebrates half a century

Cement from Lafarge’s Richmond, British Columbia, plant has been used to help build the greater Vancouver landscape for the past 50 years. As the company’s first plant in North America, the flagsh...
News - 21 July 2006

Lafarge launches three new products designed for road constructions, Romania

Lafarge Romania has released in Romania three new products for the construction of roads, motorways and road platforms, the company informs. The three products, all hydraulic binders, are Soilmix...
News - 19 July 2006

Lafarge’s cement project on track, South Africa

Lafarge South Africa’s cement business unit’s SAR1.2bn project - to increase its cement capacity by 1Mta - is on track and scheduled for finalisation and commissioning in 2008. Lafarge South Afri...
News - 18 July 2006