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Indian cos optimistic on 9% consumption growth

Despite a drop in demand from housing sector and a general slowdown in industrial activities, the cement companies are optimistic about 9% growth in demand over the next two years, according to a ...
News - 23 October 2008

Go for cement cos with focus on South, West India?

According to a report by the Economic Times of India, a clear pattern is evident in terms of cement market trends, if one goes by the results declared by cement companies. Companies with a strong ...
News - 21 October 2008

Two ministries struggle over Kankesanthurai plant, Sri Lanka

The Industrial Development Ministry (IDM) and Construction and Engineering Services Ministry (CESM) are both trying to get approval for two Indian cement companies, to invest in the Kankesanthurai...
News - 20 October 2008

Re: Tromp curve

Tromp curve is used to evaluate performance to an air separator.By analysing the separator feed ,separator fines and separator coarse return material sample PSD by laser particle size analyser,the...
Technical Cement Forum - 18 October 2008

India: cement despatches up but demand still slow

Cement despatches may have grown in September after a lull, but demand is yet to pick up. While north India is showing signs of revival and the south continues its cement-hungry streak, other part...
News - 17 October 2008

No fresh contracts with Pakistan cement suppliers

Cement importers have stopped entering into fresh contracts with Pakistani suppliers as the weak rupee has turned imports unattractive. No new contract has been finalised in the last 15 days and ...
News - 14 October 2008

JK Lakshmi Cement gains 3.8 per cent on thin volume

JK Lakshmi Cement , India’s thirty-fourth largest Construction company by market capitalisation, gained INR1.65 (or 3.8 per cent) to INR45.60, ending a five-day streak of losses. Compared with the...
News - 14 October 2008

India cement firms’ Q2 advance tax falls

A slowdown seems to be catching up with the construction sector, if the 35 per cent decline in advance tax payments of cement companies in September 2008 is any indication. Many leading cement man...
News - 13 October 2008

It’s bargain sale on D Street

There was never a better time to accumulate India’s blue-chip stocks. Some of the soram Industries, ITC, Ambuja Cement and Indian Hotels, among others, are trading at one of their lowest levels i...
News - 13 October 2008

ACC to increase capacity to retain declining market share

India producer ACC, a part of the Holcim Group, plans to add more capacity after 2010 to retain market share. Sumit Banerjee, managing director, ACC, said, “We will not stick only to 30Mta capaci...
News - 10 October 2008