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Quarry battle

Lafarge Aggregates is still bidding to set up a super-quarry on the Hebridean island, in what has become Scotland 's longest-running planning dispute, dating back to 1991. The company was...
News - 10 December 2003

Lafarge Halla pulls out of Tong Yang Cement

Lafarge’s Korean cement arm, 39.9% owned by Lafarge and the remainder by financial investors, has sold its 25% stake in Tong Yang Cement Corporation to Tong Yang Major Corporation f...
News - 10 December 2003

World Economic Forum creates Global Greenhouse Gas Register

At the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Milan, Italy, the World Economic Forum announced it is creating a Global Greenhouse Gas Register to facilitate the dis...
News - 09 December 2003

Kenya – Bamburi and Worldwide Fund for Nature regenerate degraded Shimba Hills forests

Kenya – Bamburi and Worldwide Fund for Nature regenerate degraded Shimba Hills forests Lafarge-owned Bamburi Cement, no stranger to conservation issues, is teaming up with the Worldwide Fund ...
News - 08 December 2003

Hima Cement safety

After winning a silver medal as Uganda's best investor of the year, the management and staff of Hima Cement celebrated two years of no lost time accident (LTA) at their factory. According to the c...
News - 08 December 2003

Lafarge: raising price targets

Deutsche Bank is raising its target price for Lafarge to Euro 65.0 from Euro 60.5.  On its new target price Lafarge would trade on a 2005E PE of 11.2x, 16 per cent below its 10-year historical a...
News - 08 December 2003

Nigeria – Ashakacem renew MoU with Savannah Conservation

Leading Nigerian cement producer Ashakacem, part of Lafarge, and Savannah Conservation Nigeria (SCN) recently renew a five year-old Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between them. The MoU emph...
News - 08 December 2003

Kenya – Bamburi and Worldwide Fund for Nature regenerate degraded Shimba Hills forests

Lafarge-owned Bamburi Cement, no stranger to conservation issues, is teaming up with the Worldwide Fund for Nature in a project that is to regenerate the degraded forests of Shimba Hills in the so...
News - 08 December 2003

India – Environmental Excellence awards for cement companies

The Eight NCB International Seminar on Cement and Building Materials in New Delhi was concluded with the presentation of the National Awards for Energy Performance, Environment Excellence and Qual...
News - 24 November 2003

UK – Superquarry, WWF and Lafarge

Plans for a new superquarry on the remote island of Harris by Lafarge are back in focus with a new court hearing expected this week. The plans have re-ignited the issue of Lafarge's earlier decisi...
News - 24 November 2003