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India: growth may slip below 8% in June

A slowdown in demand from key cement consuming sectors is likely to push the industry’s growth  below eight per cent in June. Though the industry statistics will be released next week, the initial...
News - 02 July 2010

Holcim’s ACC & Ambuja: mixed monthly results

Holcim’s two Indian cement interests have reported mixed results for June.   ACC Ltd, India’s No 2 producer, said on Thursday shipments in June fell 1.7 per cent from a year earlier to 1.78Mt. Pro...
News - 02 July 2010

Kerosam Industries plans capex, India

Kesoram Industries Ltd plans to invest INR11.25bn on capex in FY11, its chairman said on Thursday. 

"Considering the expected growth in demand for cement, we have decided to further expand the ...
News - 01 July 2010

ACC sees marginal YoY rise in sales, India

Indian producer ACC Ltd expects a marginal year-on-year rise in its cement sales in August because of an improvement in transportation facilities, Managing Director Sumit Banerjee said Wednesday. ...
News - 30 June 2010

Holcim

To help finance the 1.7m tonnes of annual capacity to be commissioned next year, Garadagh Cement is not paying a dividend in respect of last year. A single dry production line will replace four exi...
Corporate - 30 June 2010

Prism Cement acquires remaining stake in MBF

Prism Cement on Monday said it has acquired the remaining 50 per cent stake in Milano Bathroom Fittings for an undisclosed sum. "Post acquisition, Milano Bathroom Fittings (MBF) becomes a wholly-...
News - 29 June 2010

India: Samruddhi Cement to list on exchanges today

Samruddhi Cement, a part of the restructuring process of the cement business at AV Birla Group, will list on exchanges today. It will be merged with Ultratech Cements in 4:7 ratio.
News - 29 June 2010

Mangalam commissions wind turbines, India

Mangalam Cement has commissioned six 1.25MW wind turbines (total capacity 7.5MW) at Jaisalmer. In March this year, the company had awarded INR39 crore worth of orders for the installation of the s...
News - 29 June 2010

India: cement prices to fall 10% on lower demand

Indian cement prices are expected to soften by 8-10% from Thursday across the country, the third successive fall since May, by companies struggling to cope with lower demand. 

 According to deal...
News - 28 June 2010

Investors wary as Karnataka suffers from manpower woes

Investments worth INR4trn, promised during a global investors’ meet (GIM) early this month, are expected to create nearly 800,000 jobs in Karnataka, but investors are worried the state doesn’t hav...
News - 27 June 2010