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Cement prices in southern India likely to hold

Cement prices in the South are firm and are likely to hold for now reports Business Line. Normally, prices would drop at this time on slack demand due to rains and the start of the festival season...
News - 04 October 2007

ABB wins Jordan orders

ABB India won an order worth Rs93.3 crore from KHD Humboldt Wedag GmbH of Germany. The contract is to provide a turnkey electrics and automation solution for a 5000 tonnes per day capacity greenfi...
News - 03 October 2007

Ambuja Sept cement shipments down

Ambuja Cements, India’s third-largest cement maker, said on Wednesday its September shipments fell 4.2 percent to 1.29Mt from 1.34Mt a year earlier. Production fell an annual 4.6 percent to 1.27Mt...
News - 03 October 2007

Orient to cut costs, add capacity

India’s Orient Paper and Industries Ltd (OPIL), a C K Birla group company with interest in cement, paper and electric fans, has embarked on a cost-cutting exercise to enhance profitability. The c...
News - 02 October 2007

ACC wants higher prices

Construction activities are gathering momentum after the rains and cement prices are hitting new highs. But Sumit Banerjee, Managing Director of India’s largest cement maker ACC says companies nee...
News - 02 October 2007

India is a low-intensity producer of carbon dioxide

As world leaders meet this week in New York and Washington to discuss climate change and ways to mitigate its effects, the discussion frequently turns to the large, fast-growing economies such as ...
News - 02 October 2007

Modernisation completed at Vicat site

Vicat has invested Euro 51m in the course of a two-year period, in the modernisation of its production site in Montalieu in the Isere department of France. In the last stage of the investment prog...
News - 02 October 2007

R-ADAG eyeing cement business

Power-to-telecom business house Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) plans to enter cement manufacturing by setting up a plant near its 4,000MW coal-fired power project proposed at Sasan ...
News - 01 October 2007

Private traders in rush for Pakistan cement

In August, it was announced at the India Pakistan Commerce Secretary level talks, that the Indian state-owned MMTC would be allowed to import cement from Pakistan without a BIS certification. This...
News - 01 October 2007

Sumpreme Court allows cost benefit study for mining firms

The Indian Supreme Court has allowed the central empowered committee (CEC) to file an “environment cost benefit analysis” on degradation of environment and forests by mining companies, including F...
News - 01 October 2007