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It pays for cement makers to go green

It pays to go green, as India’s small cement manufacturers are discovering. Badarpurghat (Assam)-based cement maker Barak Valley Cements is generating power from a biomass-based thermal power plan...
News - 10 January 2008

Pakistan cement sector registers 47 per cent rise in profit in ’07

The Pakistan cement sector registered an increase of 47 per cent profit in 2007 following the soared cement dispatches as of the upbeat local demand and expanding export market. Talking to The Na...
News - 09 January 2008

Shree Cement Oct-Dec net falls on depreciation cost

Shree Cement Ltd reported a 66.35 per cent fall in Oct-Dec net profit due to high depreciation costs, a top official said on Tuesday.     Net profit in the third quarter was 350 million rupees, d...
News - 09 January 2008

Private cement cos agree to take decision on reducing prices, India

Private cement manufacturers have agreed to take a decision for reducing cement prices before February 10, following Tamil Nadu government’s warning to take over cement factories in the state, if ...
News - 08 January 2008

Builders association seeks cut in cement prices

It will not be possible to implement the mega infrastructure projects envisaged in the 11th Five Year Plan period within the budgeted cost, unless the government takes steps to control the spirall...
News - 07 January 2008

Iron, cement, power units to get 92Mt coal, India

The coal ministry today decided to allot 92.38Mt of coal to ensure the much-needed long-term linkages to 73 cement manufacturing units, 224 captive power facilities and 236 sponge-iron plant...
News - 07 January 2008

Cement unit facing closure threat, India

The only surviving cement factory in Koraput district might have to be closed for the lack of support from the administration, sources said. Owing to improper survey, planning and assessment of th...
News - 07 January 2008

Aditya Birla Dec cement shipments up 7.7 per cent YoY

India’s Aditya Birla Group said on Thursday its cement shipments in December rose 7.7 percent from a year earlier to 2.7Mt.     It said cement production rose 4.1 per cent to 2.62Mt.     The gr...
News - 04 January 2008

Shree Cement looking to go overseas, India

Kolkata-based Shree Cement Ltd (SCL), which runs the largest single-location integrated cement factory in northern India, is eyeing foreign shores.     H M Bangur, managing director, Shree Cement...
News - 04 January 2008

Pakistan cement sales jump 24 per cent, exports soar

Pakistani cement sales jumped 24 per cent in the first half of fiscal 2007/08 from a year earlier, driven by growing construction demand at home and abroad, an industry official and an analyst tol...
News - 03 January 2008