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QNCC signs QR800mn deal for a cement plant

The Qatar National Cement Company (QNCC) has signed a QR800mn agreement with French major FCB Ciment for the building of its fourth cement manufacturing facility in Umm Bab. The agreement signing ...
News - 11 September 2006

Exports of cement to hit 10Mt; cement and clinker exports from India is once again set

Cement and clinker exports from India is once again set to touch the 10 million tonne-mark by the end of this financial year. Rising consumption in the Gulf countries is the driving force for begi...
News - 11 September 2006

ACC to invest in east

India’s second-biggest cement maker, Associated Cement Companies Ltd, plans to invest INR11bn ($238.6m) for expansion and setting up readymix concrete plants in eastern India, a senior official sa...
News - 08 September 2006

FLSmidth wins record contract in India

  FLSmidth has signed a contract worth DKK 255m to supply all machinery and equipment for a cement plant with a capacity of 5500tpd of clinker with Zuari Cement Limited owned by Italcementi of It...
News - 07 September 2006

India Grasim Industries buys Harish Cement

India’s Grasim Industries Ltd said it has acquired all of Harish Cement, an unlisted company, for INR1 million.     In a notice to the Bombay Stock Exchange, the company said it bought 50,000 sh...
News - 07 September 2006

Flat sales reported for August, India

Cement companies reported more or less flat sales on a YoY basis in August, given the fact that there is a slowdown in construction activity during the monsoon period. Furthermore, several parts o...
News - 06 September 2006

Government plan to set up more cement plants in India opposed

Reacting to the alarming situation arising out of the degradation of environment in the surrounding areas of cement plants in Himachal Pardesh, people have raised a banner of revolt against settin...
News - 05 September 2006

Italcementi H1 results seen up on stronger cement volumes, margins

Italcementi SpA’s first-half results, due today, are seen improving year on year, supported by stronger sales volumes and margins at its cement activities, analysts said. EBIT is seen rising t...
News - 05 September 2006

Cement company’s MoM dispatches disrupted in India due to monsoons

Indian cement companies came out with their monthly dispatches. These figures assumed significance because this was perhaps the only year where prices sustained high levels even during the monsoon...
News - 05 September 2006

Gujarat Ambuja August cement shipments fall

Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd. , India’s third-biggest cement maker, said its August shipments fell 0.5 per cent from a year earlier because of heavy rains in the western states including Gujarat. Sa...
News - 04 September 2006