Cemex representatives to meet with PCTVL
Representatives from Cemex will meet with members of various Latvian parliamentary groups over coming weeks, as the parliamentary group’s press secretary Alina Petropavlov...
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Valderrivas confirms Uniland stake
Cementos Portland Valderrivas has now acquired 50.5 per cent of fellow cement group Corporacion Uniland on Friday for Euro 1.092bn. CementosPortland Valderrivas, a subsidiary of...
Higher returns improve cement sector fortunes
With cement prices climbing higher, the balance sheet of leading Indian cement companies are looking healthier than ever before, reports The business Standard. The cement indust...
Egyptian National Cement profits down
Egyptian National Cement Company (NCC) registered a decrease in net profit to 256.2m Egyptian pounds (US$44.6m) for the first nine months of the fiscal 2005/2006, ended June 30,...
Southern Africa cement sales rise in July
Cement sales in the Southern African Customs Union, consisting of South Africa and four neighbours, gained 15 per cent in July, rising for a third month after a decline in April...
Vietnam plans to increase prices
The Vietnam Cement Association said it has proposed a road map for a cement price hike in a bid to compensate for the increasing prices of materials. The association said it pro...
A steely resolve for the shipping sector
With steel markets still showing no signs of easing and steel production in China alone likely to reach 424Mt by the end of this year. Some analysts already forecast another ...
Hallack named principal executive Camargo Correa
Vitor Sarquis Hallack has been selected by the shareholders of Camargo Correa group as head of the management of the operating holding Camargo Correa, replacing Raphael Nogueira...
Gulf Cement debut on August 21
The Doha Securities Market has completed preparations for the listing of Gulf Cement Company. The bourse said shareholders can place their trade orders before the debut date of ...
Minister ‘instigated Mapelu sacking’
THE East African Portland Cement Company (EAPCC) lost more than Sh48 million through underhand dealings by powerful personalities in the government, a parliamentary committee ha...
Higher duty recommended on Southern Cross
The Intelligence Enforcement Group of the Philippinbe Bureau of Customs has recommended rejection of the valuation method used by Japanese firm Southern Cross Cement Corp. on sh...
Eurocement Group raises 7M-2006 shipments
Eurocement Group raised cement shipments to customers by 13 per cent year-on-year in 7M2006. The company is operating at over 90 per cent capacity utilisation (77% in 2005). Th...
Inekon Group to build Vietnam plant
Czech firm Inekon Group today signed a contract for the construction of a new cement factory for EUR115m (Kc3.3bn) in Vietnam with the management of Vietnamese company Phu Son C...
Construction corporation to step up operations
The Vietnam Construction and Machinery Installation Corporation (Lilama) is stepping up its energy, cement and ship-building projects valued at a combined US$1.8bn, said the com...
Eastern Europe pushes Dyckerhoff ahead
The separately quoted Buzzi Unicem subsidiary has reported a 6.1 per cent increase in first half turnover to €624m, but thanks to sharply improved profitability in Eastern Europ...
Sibirskiy Cement raises cement production in 1H2006
Sibirskiy Cement Holding (Kemerovo) raised production of cement by 25 per cent in the first half of 2006 against the same period 2005 - to 1,757,000t. Topkinskiy Cement raised o...
Saudi Arabia licenses new cement company
Saudi Arabia has licensed al-Jouf Cement Co, a firm with a paid-up capital of 1.02 billion riyals (US$267m), the state news agency SPA said on Sunday. The planned company is at ...
Ha Long Bay not listed as in danger
Deputy Director of the Ha Long Bay Managing Board Nguyen Cong Thai who has returned to Vietnam from the 30th conference of the World Heritage Committee held in Vilnius, Lithuani...
Enviro notice to cement factories
The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued notices to the State Government and two cement factories of Rewa district on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) for causing water, air and n...
Twiga Cement crisis yet to be resolved
Over 180 casual labourers of a Dar es Salaam-based company, Hoageys (T) Limited, who were verbally fired on Thursday this week, have vowed to continue assembling at the company’...
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