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Southeast Asia Cement Holdings Inc (Seacem) grew its profits by more than eightfold last year, the company said. "The board of directors approved the separate audited financia...
Iran Daily has announced that some 69.457Mt of cement were produced domestically YoY from February 2012, showing an increase of 6.7 per cent compared to the figure for the same...
Orient Paper & Industries Ltd has reported that the operational performance of the company's cement division for January 2013 was 315,997t, while domestic cement sales for the ...
The supervisory board of HeidelbergCement Ukraine, based in Dnipropetrovsk region, appointed David von Lingen Deputy General Manager on 8 February 2013. Von Lingen is appointe...
Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc has won nine awards for excellence from different stakeholders and organisations in the past year. The awards span different keys areas in whic...
Buzzi Unicem turnover edged ahead by 0.9 per cent last year to €2813m, of which Dyckerhoff contributed an almost unchanged €1603m. The underlying EBITDA, which will be announce...
Total shipments for Portland and blended cement in the US and Puerto Rico reached 6.6Mt in November 2012, representing an increase of nearly eight per cent, according to the la...
HeidelbergCement has launched construction of a new cement plant in Kaspi, Shida Kartli region of Georgia. The output of the new factory will be 1Mta and in the future producti...
Raysut Cement Co (RCC), the sultanate's biggest cement producer, announced a 64.1 per cent growth in net profit at OMR24.53m (US$63.7m) for 2012, against OMR14.95m posted for t...
Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), the leading cement producer in the country, sold 20.4Mt of cement and clinker in 2012, rising by 8.8 per cent from a year earlier a...
The reopening of Dangote Cement plant Gboko in Benue state on 1 February 2013 by the management came as a relief to the people of the state, especially those who earn their dai...
MPs have begun to debate on a highly-billed report about the cancellation of a mining lease that cost taxpayers UGX43.5bn (US$16.4m). The report, which was tabled by the Publ...
The latest Construction Trade Survey (CTS) published last Friday, shows that the majority of the construction industry endured a difficult 4Q12, due to declining output and ord...
Flour Mills of Nigeria plans to borrow between US$400m-500m to construct a new cement plant which will double its existing 2.5Mta capacity, its chief finance officer said. Jac...
Despite recent news reports of political tension in Egypt, there are some positive signs in the country's cement market that demand is recovering after two difficult years. The...
Cemex has reported its full-year 2012 results which show decline in turnover but advance in EBITDA. Net debt is reduced but interest charge and gearing rise. Cemex' turnover...
India’s second largest cement producer ACC reported a 49 per cent YoY drop in net profit for the third quarter of the current fiscal. The company, in which Swiss cement majo...
Sumitomo Osaka Cement is expected to report a strong gain in operating profit for the first nine months of the fiscal year on the back of earthquake reconstruction efforts. Th...
PPC´s Zimbabwe subsidiary, Portland Holdings Ltd (PHL) has announced its intention to construct a new cement plant to service the Harare and central Mozambique markets. The new...
Lafarge India plans to raise INR500 crore through a bond issue, the Economic Times (ET) of India has reported. "The company will raise the bonds in tenors of two-three years,...
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