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Cement and concrete group has come a long way to be on hold.

Hanson, the company that made its name in the 1980s as an acquisitive corporate raider before "conglomerate" was a dirty word, is now a more down-to-earth business. Aggregates, cement and ready-mi...
News - 10 June 2005

Carpatcement appeals over Romanian cartel fine

Carpatcement, a unit of Germany’s HeidelbergCement will ask a local court to cancel an €8.6m fine by Romania’s competition watchdog for price fixing, the company said on Wednesday. The Competit...
News - 09 June 2005

UK watchdog warns Lafarge

Lafarge was yesterday given a formal warning after the Environment Agency carried out an investigation at its Wiltshire plant.  The company had its knuckles rapped earlier this year when it was dis...
News - 06 June 2005

Joe Berardo to build Cimpor stake – bid expected

Portuguese businessman Joe Berardo plans to continue adding to his stake in Cimpor - Cimentos de Portugal SGPS in expectation the cement maker will be the target of a takeover bid, he told Lusa ne...
News - 06 June 2005

Poland’s cement usage likely to increase in 2005

Poland’s cement usage is likely to increase for another consecutive year in 2005, even up to five per cent, from a three per cent growth in 2004, Cement Producers Lobby deputy president Andrzej Te...
News - 01 June 2005

Lafarge Malayan to fight pricing trends

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd, Malaysia’s largest cement producer, will not initiate a price war despite a fall in cement demand, although it will match competitors’ prices, the Star reported, quotin...
News - 31 May 2005

Mega projects in the pipeline

Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday indicated that the Government, with the assistance of the Investment Commission, was actively pursuing the setting up of three mega infrastructure...
News - 31 May 2005

Povazska cementaren profit down

Slovak cement maker Povazska cementaren made profit worth almost Sk177 million in 2004, a drop of five per cent on the year, Jozef Sutara, an assistant to Povazska CEO, told CTK today.   Sales wer...
News - 31 May 2005

Romania watchdog fines cement companies

Romania’s competition council fined the country’s main cement producers EUR28.5 million for allegedly fixing prices on the local market, the regulator said in a statement Thursday.  The Romanian un...
News - 27 May 2005

Lafarge brings ’self-levelling’concrete to Canada

A "self-levelling" concrete that’s new to North America will revolutionise the construction industry, its maker says, by eliminating many hours of back-breaking labour.  Lafarge, a multinational bu...
News - 27 May 2005