Lafarge Romania reports higher profits
Lafarge Cement Romania, the local subsidiary of the French group Lafarge, reported a profit of approximately Euro 55m last year. The 2005 turnover recorded by Lafarge Cement st...
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EBRD considering Garadagh stake
Terms of consideration of the issue of shareholding of the Bank in OJSC Garadagh Cement have been extended according to EBRD spokesman Raymond Conway in Baku. "The Board of Dire...
ACC shareholders approve merger of Tarmac India
Associated Cement Companies Ltd (ACC) today said it has approved the merger of Tarmac India Ltd with itself. The equity shareholders of the company at their court convened meet...
Kalla insists new SG shareholder must comply
Vice President Jusuf Kalla insisted Friday that whoever eventually bought a stake from Cemex SA in state-controlled cement producer PT Semen Gresik (SG) would have to comply wit...
Citigroup Global acquires shares of Mangalam Cement
Citibank, N.A. has informed the Exchange that Citigroup Global Mkts (Mauritius) Private Ltd. has acquired 55,106 shares aggregating to 0.20 per cent of the total paid up capital...
China’s Tangshan Jidong Cement sees H1 net profit up
Tangshan Jidong Cement Co Ltd said that it expects net profit for the first half to rise over 50 pe cent YoY, on higher sales and cost cutting. The company’s net profit ...
Shareholders approve Binani arrangement, India
Binani Industries Ltd, has informed BSE that the shareholders of the Company at their Court Convened Meeting held on June 6, 2006, have approved the Scheme of arrangement for sw...
HeidelbergCement signs deal with Istra Cement, Croatia
HeidelbergCement AG signed a contract with Mid Europa Partners on the sale of their 92,4% stake in Istra cement, ’CT’ reports.
M’bishi Materials, S’tomo Osaka Cement Join For Limestone Mining
Mitsubishi Materials Corp and Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co announced Thursday that they will jointly develop limestone mines in Kitakyushu.
Tanga Cement told to use locally sourced coal
Tanga Cement Company should use coal from Kiwira in Mbeya instead of importing the material from South Africa, Tanga Regional Commissioner, Mohamed Abdulaziz said on Wednesday.
85,300t of imported cement expected this month, Jamaica
The Ministry of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce has reported that 85,300t of imported cement is expected in the island this month.
Quality of imported cement found satisfactory, Pakistan
The quality of imported cement is up to Pakistani and British standards and the commodity is excellent for use in construction, said an official statement issued by the ministry...
Lafarge to reduce emissions, UK
Lafarge’s Westbury works in Wiltshire, UK is installing new equipment to control emissions after breaching its permit conditions earlier this year. Lafarge was forced to ...
Cementos Portland Valderrivas increases stake in Cementos Lemona
Spanish cement producer Cementos Portland Valderrivas has invested EUR111,360 in the acquisition of 3,480 Cementos Lemona shares, thus increasing the stake in its subsidiary to ...
Builders protest against cement price hike, India
The Builders Association of India has protested against the hike in cement price. A statement issued by Balagopal Menon, chairman of the Kerala centre of the association, said ...
Adelaide Brighton acquires WA limestone quarry business, Australia
Adelaide Brighton Ltd subsidiary Adelaide Brighton Cement Ltd has entered into an agreement with Loongana Lime Pty Ltd for Adelaide Brighton Cement to purchase from Loongana its...
Local trade office awaits advice on cement price issue, Jamaica
The Departement of Trade and Industry (DTI) regional office here can not intervene on complaints regarding the high cost of cement just yet.
New plant to be constructed in Egypt
A E£400m (US$69.4m) cement factory is reportedly being established in Aswan, southern Egypt. The project will be 90 per cent financed by Misr Engineering Development Company (ME...
Cement dispatch is normalised in local markets, Dominican Republic
The Cement Producers Association yesterday informed that the decline in local market supply was circumstantial, because of prior commitments by one of the manufacturers with pen...
Russia’s Sibconcord to invest RUB3.5bn
Russian industrial holding Sibconcord plans to invest RUB3.5bn over the next five years in its Topkinsky Tsement cement plant based in the Kemerovo Region, the region’s Go...
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