Indonesia Cement consumption down in April
After strong growth in March, cement consumption in Indonesia shrank 10.45 per cent in April compared to the previous month, to 2.4Mt.
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Russia’s Novoroscement plants sold
Russia’s leading export facilities and an important regional producer along Russia’s southern market, the Novoroscement complex has recently been sold by its Russian owners to a...
La Tribune: strong growth in profit for Lafarge
Lafarge achieved a net operating profit of €345m for the first quarter of 2007, up 58 per cent on the corresponding period of last year.
Russia’s Novoroscement plants sold
Russia’s leading export facilities and an important regional producer along Russia’s southern market, the Novoroscement complex has
Obajana Cement’s new production lines
Obajana Cement PLC’s new production lines 3rd and 4th will require about US$1.6bn, according to the company’s Chairman / President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.
Cement factory blaze investigated
A fire at a cement factory in Flintshire is being investigated by the Environment Agency. The blaze at the Castle Cement plant in Padeswood, near Mold, started on the seventh f...
Inflated energy costs weigh on cement, steel industries
Rising energy costs over the past three months have forced Vietnamese producers to keep steel and cement prices high, despite global commodity trends to the contrary.
Orascom acquires stake in Algeria’s Samba
Orascom Construction Industries announced that it has acquired a 60% stake in Samba SPA, the largest aggregates producer in Algeria, for a total sum of US$ 8 million.
Peruvian domestic cement sales increase
Cement sales on the domestic Peruvian market increased to 756,471t in the first four months of 2007 from 570,541t for the same period of 2006, the Peruvian cement producers asso...
HeidelbergCement Selects i2
i2 Technologies, Inc. today announced that HeidelbergCement has selected i2 Supply Chain Strategist to optimize its global logistics network.
Ukraine cement output increases
Production of cement increased by 29 per cent in April, compared to March. In January-April 2007
Shiva Cement enters mktng alliance with ACC
Shiva Cement Ltd today said it has offloaded 12 per cent shares and entered into a marketing alliance with ACC Ltd
Shree Cement: higher prices help
Shree Cement, like other players in the Indian cement sector, reported an improved performance in the March 2007 quarter,
Dalmia Cement Q4 net up 15 per cent
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd has reported a 170 per cent growth in net profit for the year ended March 2007.
Monarch Cement: Q1 cash flow turns negative
Cash Flow from operations for The Monarch Cement Company for its first quarter ended March 31, 2007 was a negative
Cimpor Q1 net falls 15 per cent
Cimpor Portugal said net profit fell 15 per cent to €67m in the first quarter to March from € 78.8m a year earlier, in line with analysts forecasts for €66-70m.
Midland jobs ’safe’ after Hanson deal
Hundreds of jobs will be secure in the UK Midlands despite the UK£8 billion agreed takeover of building materials group Hanson by Germany’s HeidelbergCement.
Independent panel for new cement plant
Emotions are running high in North Otago, New Zealand as debate about a proposal to build a NZ$200 million cement plant near Oamaru gathers momentum.
Sabanci to invest more in cement
Turkey’s Sabanci Holding cement group plans US$367m investment, mainly for capacity increase this year, said head of Sabanci’s cement group Erhan Kamisli.
Foreign cement makers line up for BIS approval, Pakistan
The Pakistan government’s effort to fight inflation by removing import duty on cement has had the desired result: a clutch of foreign firms have applied for Bureau of Indian Sta...
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