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Lafarge to bid for Semen Gresik stake?

According to the Indonesian government, French building materials group Lafarge is among the bidders for a 25 per cent stake in PT Semen Gresik, Indonesia’s leading cement group.The holding, value...
News - 30 March 2006

Lafarge and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Lafarge announces the results of its assessment of its internal control over financial reporting, carried out in accordance with the provisions of section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. These resu...
News - 30 March 2006

Top builders to join with WBCSD

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced today that it is forming an alliance of leading global companies to determine how buildings can be designed and constructed so that...
News - 30 March 2006

Municipal Waste Bound for Kingston

Lafarge Canada has applied for approvals to burn waste from Ontario, Quebec, and eight US states at its cement plant in Bath. This proposal has activists worried. "The Bath Alternative Fuel projec...
News - 30 March 2006

Portland Cement quizzed on auditing procedures

Analysts have asked Portland Cement Limited, whose majority shareholder is Lafarge, to engage an independent auditing firm to investigate the financial scam that has resulted in the loss of K258 m...
News - 30 March 2006

Submissions filed against Lafarge proposal

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and Gord Downie have filed an official submission to the Ministry of Environment recommending that Lafarge’s request to burn tires and other waste at its cement kiln in Ba...
News - 29 March 2006

Lafarge to participate in Mexican grey-cement market

Lafarge is to participate in the Mexican grey-cement market from late April. The company is to start operations in its Hidalgo plant, which demanded an investment of US$121m. The plant will produc...
News - 28 March 2006

Lafarge North America rejects buyout

Lafarge North America (LNA) said Friday, March 23, that a committee of board members had rejected a US$3bn buyout offer from its French parent, Lafarge SA. The committee considers the bid of US$75...
News - 27 March 2006

Lafarge interested in Semen Gresik

Lafarge SA has reportedly expressed its seriousness in buying Cemex Asia Holdings’s 25.53 per cent in PT Semen Gresik at market price. The serious commitment of Lafarge, confided one executive kno...
News - 27 March 2006

HeidelbergCement wants more consolidation

HeidelbergCement AG believes it should play a major role in the consolidation of the cement industry and wants to make a further acquisition, CEO Bernd Scheifele said in an interview with Boersen-...
News - 27 March 2006