Cemex in talks to buy Deepak Cements
Cemex is reportedly in talks to take over unlisted Deepak Cements & Chemicals, the DNA newspaper reported, citing unnamed sources.
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Malaysian cement prices go up
The ceiling price for cement has been increased by between 3% and 10% effective immediately for peninsular Malaysia, with Sabah and Sarawak to follow later.
JK Cement mulls 2Mt plant acquisition
In the midst of buyouts of Indian cement firms by foreign companies, home-grown JK Cement Ltd is keen to add a capacity of around 2Mt via an inorganic route.
Worker killed in UK cement kiln
A man was crushed to death at the Lafarge Northfleet cement works, UK. The Polish national was carrying out routine maintenance work inside a kiln
More mergers for China cement sector in 2007
Market prices and the industrial profits of cement industry will remain at a rational level in 2007, experts predict.
Chile cement sales up 3.5 per cent
Cement sales in Chile during the first 11 months of the year reached 3.78Mt, up 3.5% on the same period 2005, local press reported.
Development Board supports Holcim expansion
The Waitaki Development Board in New Zealand has come out in support of a proposed cement plant at Weston, citing the economic benefits. Chief executive Mark Jurisich said t...
Costly raw materials in Qatar
Prices of building materials in Qatar which spiked due to the frenzied bout of construction work prior to the Asian Games have yet to cool,
Vietnam: cement consumption to rise
Vietnam will produce and consume an estimated 34.6 -35.4Mt of cement next year, an increase of about 10 per cent against this year,
Oyak’s Bolu puts more into cement
Bolu Cimento, part of the Turkish Oyak Group, plans to invest 6.1 mln lira (US$4.3m) in 2007, as production is forecast at 1.8Mt of
SCC cuts power costs
Siam Cement Plc (SCC), Thailand’s largest industrial conglomerate, plans to spend 1.96 billion baht on power generators to help reduce energy costs
Heidelberg Mediterranean requests tender call exemption
Heidelberg Cement Mediterranean Basin Holding has applied to the capital markets board for an exemption from launching a tender
Cement carrieir Tzini faces additional fines
The Taiwan Bureau of Environmental Protection under the Yilan County Government issued yesterday another fine of NT$1.5 million
More commodities for Indonesian flagged ships
Indonesian government has put four more commodities that have to be shipped using Indonesian flagged ships starting January 1 2007. The four commodities are crude palm oil (CPO)...
Kuznetsk Cement Plant to provide investment funding
Caspian Resources (Kazakhstan), which recently bought 100% of the shares of Kuznetsk Cement Plant (Kemerovo region) will invest
Three Gorges Area sees new cement line
A 2Mta dry-process cement production line technology upgrading project, the second phase of Kehua Company’s cement project
FLSmidth to open factory in China
FLSmidth & Co. will open a factory in the Qingdao harbour city, to the east of Beijing, at the beginning of January 2007, Danish b
Cement is a key export from Georgia
Products worth US$65.503m were exported from Georgia to Azerbaijan in January-October 2006, Prime-
Birla offloads entire stake in Mysore Cement
Bangalore-based SK Birla group company Birla VXL offloaded its entire stake, representing 2.62 per cent in Mysore Cement in an open market transaction. Mysore Cement in a filing...
New batch plant for Manatee Port
A concrete batch plant is in the planning for an area adjacent to Port Manatee, Florida. Schwab Ready Mix Inc.
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