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Price woes damp M&As in cement sector, India

Global cement majors, who have been looking to strike M&A deals in India, are increasingly finding the existing high valuations in the 280Mt Indian cement industry a dampener. According to indust...
News - 28 March 2011

Century Plyboards to demerge two divisions, India

Century Plyboards Monday said its board has approved demerger of its ferro alloys and cement division into a new wholly-owned subsidiary Star Ferro And Cement. The ferro alloys and cement divisio...
News - 28 March 2011

Lafarge research arm begins first joint project, India

The first joint project by Lafarge’s research arm and the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) is expected to kick start soon, an official said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, Revindra...
News - 24 March 2011

Rain Cements opens fly ash and packing units, India

Rain Cements Ltd had commenced operations of its fly ash handling and cement packing unit at Bellary, Karnataka with effect from March 24, 2011.

With the commencement of operations, total product...
News - 24 March 2011

Indian govt’ likely to divest stake in state-owned companies

India’s department of disinvestment plans to list as many as 10 profitable state-owned companies in 2011-12 (Apr-Mar) to meet the INR400bn divestment target, The Economic Times newspaper reported ...
News - 23 March 2011

Indo Zinc is now Trinetra Cement Ltd, India

Indo Zinc Ltd has it received approval to change its name to Cement Limited from shareholders through postal ballot.

 The new name is effective as of March 18, 2011.
News - 22 March 2011

EEL India to set up manufacturing plant in Haryana

EEL Private Limited, a subsidiary of the FLSmidth group, will set up a new manufacturing plant in Haryana, a senior official said Sunday. According to Rajeev Arora, managing director of Haryana ...
News - 21 March 2011

Oman Cement to invest in modernisation

Oman Cement Copany, the Sultanate’s second biggest cement producer, is planning to modernise its clinker unit and reduce emissions with a total capital expenditure of US$37.57m. 

The contract has...
News - 21 March 2011

Pakistan cement exports suffer YoY fall

Pakistan exported 588,386t of cement with a value of US$22.529m in February 2011 compared to 470,667t at US$22.351m in January 2011. This reflects a monthly growth of 25.01 and 0.8 per cent in quan...
News - 21 March 2011

Century Plyboards expansion update, India

Sajjan Bhajjanka, managing director of Indian cement producer, Century Plyboards, has recently spoken about the company’s latest investment. Below is a transcript of his interview with  CNBC-TV18....
News - 21 March 2011