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India: producers planning units to be asked to use 25% ash

Cement companies, which have signed MoUs with the Orissa government, for setting up of cement units in the state, will be asked to utilise 25 percent of the fly ash generated by them in various fo...
News - 16 March 2009

Binani Group plans in Mauritius taking shape

The Binani Group has been allotted four hectares near Port Louis by the Mauritius Port Authority for setting a 0.5Mt grinding unit along with a captive power plant. Mr Vinod Juneja, Managing Dire...
News - 11 March 2009

Local opposition to new proposed plant, India

Farmers in Himachal Pradesh are strongly opposed to a new cement plant being proposed for the Chambi village in Sundernagar subdivistion of Mandi district. A delegation of farmers headed by Mr Par...
News - 09 March 2009

Indian producers set to raise prices

Cement producers in India are to hike prices by Rs5 per 50kg bag across the country in a couple of weeks said dealers in Mumbai and Gujarat.  This comes on the back of improved demand as well as...
News - 09 March 2009

Dalmia’s new greenfield plant on-stream, India

Dalmia Cement (Bharat) confirmed it will be increasing its production capacity from the present 3.5Mt to about 9Mta before the end of this calendar year. T Venkatesan, CEO, announced the launch o...
News - 09 March 2009

Limestone reserves declining, MP, India

With limestone reserves declining, Madhya Pradesh may find it difficult to attract cement companies. During the last four years around 10 companies, with a combined investment of INR15,000 crore,...
News - 06 March 2009

Some green shoots among the gloom

While the Baltic Index for larger units has declined slightly in the opening days of March and market interest in both the Atlantic and Pacific basins has been somewhat muted for such ships, news ...
News - 05 March 2009

Jaiprakash Associates to hire 2000, India

Construction and cement firm Jaiprakash Associates will hire 2,000 people in 2009 for its ongoing expansion projects, said executive chairman Manoj Gaur in a report with The Economic Times. He...
News - 04 March 2009

ACC looks to raise prices

India’s largest cement maker by capacity, may increase product prices in 2-3 months after having raised them by INR3 per 50kg bag last week, said a senior company executive. "We raised prices las...
News - 04 March 2009

Vicat maintains a strong balance sheet

With a gearing of 34.7% at the end of December, compared with 30.0%, Vicat maintains one of the strongest balance sheets in the sector, with net debt of 678m comparing with an equity of EUR1,954m....
News - 04 March 2009