Rebate on cement exports may be allowed, Pakistan
Cement manufacturers have approached the government to allow rebate on cement export as prices in the country stabilised and rising demand is being met accordingly. According to...
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Lithuania reports cement shortage
Lithuania`s producers of building materials, as predicted, have come across the shortage of cement in August, with the sole cement producer Akmenes Cementas (Akmene Cement) bein...
New cement plant registration eased, Philippines
The Board of Investments (BoI) has relaxed the rules on the registration of cement projects to enable foreigners to wholly-own cement projects in the country but tightened the r...
Vietnam: Cement consumption to decrease
The domestic cement demand in the third quarter of this year is predicted to decrease dramatically over the first and second quarter due to rainy reason, said the Ministry of Co...
Gulf Cement Co to begin production by mid-2008
The Gulf Cement Company (GCC), which is being listed at the Doha Securities Market (DSM) today, said it hopes to begin production by the middle of 2008.
Indonesia July cement sales up 2.6%
Indonesia’s domestic cement sales in July rose 2.6 per cent compared with a year earlier, the first annual increase since November, according to local news reports.
Investment funds eye Lafarge roof unit
At least a dozen investment funds and an industrial group are studying the potential acquisition of building materials group Lafarge’s roofing business, according to repor...
Holcim H1 net profit seen up, price hikes help
Holcim , the world’s second biggest cement maker, is expected to report a 34 per cent rise in first-half net profits before minorities, boosted by price increases and rece...
CRH to acquire Ashland Paving And Construction, Inc
CRH plc, the international building materials group, announces that its US subsidiary, Oldcastle Materials, Inc., has reached agreement to purchase Ashland Paving And Constructi...
CSN receives approval for Rio plant
Cia Siderurgica Nacional, the third-largest Brazilian steelmaker, said it got authorization from environmental regulators to build a cement plant at its main steel mill. CSN sai...
What do emission caps mean for California?
California Portland Cement Co had planned to build more plants this year but put its expansion on hold as it awaits a decision by state lawmakers that the company says could for...
Limits set on local expansion bids
The Philippine Board of Investments (BOI) said it has approved a new measure that will inhibit local cement firms from opening or acquiring new plants if their existing plants a...
Nigerian cement project woos investors
Nigeria’s Adamawa State government has begun fresh discussion with German and Indian investors to explore the possibilities of a joint venture in the establishment of cement man...
Gulf Cement Co to begin production by mid-2008
The Gulf Cement Company (GCC) Qatar, which is being listed at the Doha Securities Market (DSM) today, hopes to begin production by the middle of 2008. Land for the project measu...
EU Approves Figdor purchase
The European Commission Friday cleared German cement makers Mibau Holding GmbH, controlled by HeidelbergCement and Foster Yeoman Baumineralien GmbH, to buy German building mater...
Basic Element to construct Serebryany cement plant
Basic Element LLC will construct Serebryany cement plant in the Mikhaylovsky district of the Ryazan region. The enterprise capacity will total 1.5Mt of cement per year. Investme...
Belarus to cut cement exports
Belarusian cement plants plan to reduce exports by 26,000t in order to cut the deficit on the domestic market, First Deputy Architecture and Construction Minister Leonid Sokolov...
Burning tyres in Puerto Rico
US environmental regulators have granted a permit to a division of Cemex to burn used tyres for fuel at a plant in the southern Puerto Rican city of Ponce, officials and the com...
Ancap to modernise cement plants
Ancap should invest at least US$10m in its cement plant at Minas and other US$2m - US$3m in the Paysandu unit, as part of an effort to modernise and to move them out of losses o...
Bamburi Defends its presence in EAPC
Kenyan Bamburi Cement has defended its controversial shareholding in its main rival East African Portland Cement (EAPC). Mr Michel Pucheros, the managing director of Bamburi Ce...
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