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WWF and Bamburi Cement in conservation effortVisiting World wide Fund for nature (WWF) Director General, Jan Leape has called on both the private sector and government to boost forests and woodlands conservation as part of the global agenda ...News - 27 March 2006 |
Dunbar emissions controlScottish Dunbar cement works has passed a milestone in its GBP 20m programme to reduce emissions and improve environmental performance. A pre-cyclone system has been commissioned at Lafarge Cemen...News - 22 March 2006 |
New orders for SiemensSiemens Ltd’s Industrial Solutions and Services Division has won three orders worth Rs 680m (US$15.3m), including two export orders, in the cement industry. The contracts are from National Cement ...News - 17 March 2006 |
Moldova’s Ciment more than doubles 2005 net profitThe net profit of Moldovan cement producer Ciment, majority owned by Lafarge, more than doubled last year to 50.9m lei (US$3.9m). Ciment, located in the northern town of Rezina, had a 296.7m lei s...News - 17 March 2006 |
Police arrest Portland staffPolice in Blantyre last Friday arrested four Portland Cement Limited (Lafarge) workers for allegedly working in the country without permits and another one for alleged theft by servant and fraudul...News - 16 March 2006 |
Hanson shares hit record on break-up, bid talkShares in Hanson Plc surged to an all-time high on Wednesday on market talk of a bid for the building materials supplier from France’s Lafarge, adding to rumours the firm might separate its US bus...News - 16 March 2006 |
Lafarge manoeuvres may prove costlyLafarge SA will have to pay at least US$85 per share if it is serious about acquiring the rest of its North American subsidiary Lafarge North America Inc. (LNA), say sources. A week ago, LNA aske...News - 14 March 2006 |
WAPCO to pay dividendsAhead of its upcoming annual general meeting, West African Portland Cement PLC, a subsidiary of Lafarge SA Group, says it will pay about N900 million dividends to shareholders for the last financ...News - 14 March 2006 |
Renewed interest in cement production in North DakotaGeologists want to know if enough limestone can be found in eastern North Dakota to run a profitable cement plant. It’s a subject of intense interest in North Dakota’s construction industry, which...News - 13 March 2006 |
Tyre-burning plant plan submitted for approvalThe US State Department of Environmental Conservation has released a 92-page document answering public comments on the Lafarge Building Materials proposal to burn old tyres to fire its Ravenna cem...News - 09 March 2006 |