Lafarge raises purchase price
Sichuan Shuangma Cement Co Ltd said the Chinese unit of Lafarge SA has agreed to increase its offer to acquire 100 per cent of its parent, Shuangma Investment Group, to Yuan 339...
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Semen Gresik sales down
PT Semen Gresik said sales in the five months to May fell 1.3 per cent year-on-year to 6.01Mt, led by a big fall in exports. It said domestic sales in the five months rose to...
Vietnam assures consumers on supply and prices
Vu Van Hiep, deputy general director of the Viet Nam Cement Corporation (VNCC), this week assured the nation’s construction companies that there would be no serious shortages of...
Meeting was not a secret, says Cemex
Owners of Rugby Cement Works have hit back over claims they held a secret meeting to discuss new fuel-burning proposals. Cemex outlined plans to trial the new Climafuel system a...
Peruvian domestic cement sales increase
Peruvian domestic cement sales stood at 404,426t in May 2006, up 22.9 per cent year-on-year, the country’s Association of Cement Companies (Asocem) said on June 15, 2006. ...
Construction market, put at 6 billion euros in 2005
The construction industry in Romania grew in the first quarter of the year 20 percent, three times faster than the entire economy. The value of construction works for 2005 was ...
FLSmidth signs two US contracts
FLSmidth has been successful in winning two contracts totalling more than US$44m. The first contract is for the cement kiln system for the new line at Essroc’s Martinsbur...
Russian court to hear Eurocement antitrust case
The Federal Arbitration Court for the Moscow court district has scheduled for July 3 the hearings of a complaint filed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) seeking to oblig...
CR minorities take short-term view
Minority shareholders in China Resources Cement, whose profit slumped 85 percent last year, have voted overwhelmingly to accept a HK$428 million privatisation offer by the Hong ...
Climb every mountain, swim every river
Holcim has succeeded in using alternative fuel at many of its plants worldwide. Holcim has now begun to apply the new approach to its affiliate plant in Saraburi province, Thail...
Shree Cement wins award
Rajasthan-based company, Shree Cement Ltd, is among this year’s recipients of the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award (GPEMA) 2006. The awards, instituted by the W...
Siam Cement shifts focus to consumer
Siam Cement Group (SCG) has signalled a departure from its previous marketing campaigns, opting for a new 100 million baht (US$2.6m) promotion targeting the end-consumer.
Cemex ready to discuss arbitrage cancellation
While rejecting the requirement of the Minister of SOE Sugiharto, to reconsider the sale of its stake to the Rajawali Group, Cemex Asia Holdings said the company is ready to di...
Chinese building material producers see profits tumble
The National Bureau of Statistics of China and China Building Material Industry Association jointly released the country’s top 100 building material manufacturers for 2005...
Ghacem Briefs Parliamentary Select Committee
Ghacem Limited last week briefed a parliamentary select committee on Environment, Science and Technology delegation on the company’s Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) p...
Gujarat Sidhee Cement swings to profit
Gujarat Sidhee Cement earned a profit of Rs. 34.03 million compared with a loss of Rs. 86.39 million in corresponding quarter of 2004-05. Sales for the quarter rose 31.34 per ...
Italcementi receives social award
Italcementi achieved recognition for TX Active®, the photocatalytic active principle for cement products capable of fighting against air pollution, by receiving the Sodalitas So...
New cement plant begins production
Bestway Cement, situated in District Chakwal, Pakistan, started production Tuesday from its new plant. The facility has been built at a cost of Rs7bn (US$116m). A brief ceremony...
German CEMAG to build TIG plant
German engineering group CEMAG Anlagenbau GmbH and Saudi TIG Group signed, in late May 2006, an agreement for construction of a 1.1 bln Saudi riyals ($293m) cement plant in Jala...
India Cements looking for more opportunities
India Cements Ltd, which has reported a profit for the second straight year plans to have a pan-India footprint. Apart from signing up for a two million tonnes a year cement pla...
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