CRH appoints Chief Executive Designate
CRH announces the appointment of Mr. Myles Lee as Group Chief Executive Designate. Mr. Lee will succeed the current Chief Executive, Mr. Liam O’Mahony, when he retires as ...
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Cement cartel success boosts UK claims
Investigators gathering evidence over alleged cement price fixing in the UK have been boosted by Heidelberg, Lafarge, Holcim, Cemex and three other cement producers losing their...
China cement price apparently stable
Market monitoring by the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) shows that China’s cement market has operated steadily, with comparatively inert prices. Monitoring shows that cement...
Railton’s cement works: asbestos survey
The cement works at Railton in Tasmania’s north west is to be the subject of an asbestos survey and research program. From the 1940s to the late 80s, Goliath Cement was Au...
Waste generator savings
China’s Runji Cement located in Anhui Province has announced that it broke ground on the construction of a waste heat-fueled electric generator on May 16, 2008. Currently, ele...
New developments for fly ash
Scientists at University of New South Wales in Australia have turned the ash waste from coal-fired power stations into a global environmental solution which promises to slash ...
James Hardie shares tumble
Australian James Hardie Industries, the largest seller of home siding in the US, today posted a full-year loss as the slump in US housing market deepens. Sydney-based Hardie sai...
Hima to spend on alternative fuels
Suppliers of coffee, rice and timber husks to Hima Cement could earn sh1.5b annually, Bernard Osawa, the company’s manager for alternative fuel, has said. Osawa said at ...
China: Liaoning’s cleaning-up act
The province of Liaoning is cleaning up its act and particularly its rivers and air.
India: RPL sets up cement works to curb fly-ash disposal
Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Reliance Power Ltd (RPL) has announced plans to set up a 20Mta cement works near Satna in Madhya Pradesh.
Prosperity sets sights on HK listing
Registered on the UK AIM listings, with its shares having languished over the past 12 months, Prosperity’s owners are now about to jump aboard the HK bandwagon and aim for...
Vietnam axes clinker tariff
Vietnam has decided to slash import taxes to zero percent from current 5-10 percent on clinker, according to a local finance agency on Wednesday. Under a decision of the Fina...
East Timor plant revamp possible - revised
British based financing company, Delamore Owl & Group said it is ready to provide US$28 million in credit to revitalize a small debt ridden cement maker in Indonesia. Delamore a...
Cement stocks in the spotlight
Malaysian cement companies attracted attention yesterday following speculation that the industry will be the next to be liberalised after the steel industry. Analysts are positi...
ACC announces future price rise
India’s ACC group, India’s largest cement manufacturer said it will increase the prices of cement after three month if the market forces and the government allow t...
Pakistan cement export data
Pakistan’s cement exports have registered a phenomenal growth during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year, which stood at 5.94 million tonnes for July-April. ...
L&T, Grasim joust over UltraTech stock
Two of India most valuable companies Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) and Grasim Industries Ltd, which have been at loggerheads since the early 2000s over cross-holdings, are facing ...
Power plants see the benefits of cement
By setting up cement projects to make use of the fly ash generated from their power plants, Indian utilities such as NTPC Ltd and Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s Reliance...
JK sees profits fall
JK Cement, one of the largest cement manufacturers in North India and the second largest white cement producer in the country, announced a marginal fall in standalone net prof...
ACC expansion on track
ACC is planning to expand its cement capacity from 22.4Mt to 30.4Mt by 2010. The company expects to commission its captive power plant of 30mW at Bargarh in 2009 and a plant of ...
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