Lafarge buys Brasov quarries
Lafarge Aggregate Betoane (Aggregate Concrete) bought several stone quarries in Brasov for some Euro 550,000 from Romaco. Lafarge has already used the quarries on lease contract...
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No change in cement import, export policy, Pakistan
The government rejected on Thursday the demand of cement manufacturers to immediately change the policy on import and export of cement and informed the All Pakistan Cement Manuf...
Dyckerhoff to build two cement lines, Russia
German construction material producer Dyckerhoff AG has decided to build two cement production lines, worth a total of about US$150m, in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Region, Wolfga...
Dalmacijacement Q1 2006 profits rise, Croatia
Croatian cement producer Dalmacijacement, part of Cemex, posted a consolidated net profit of 16.2 mln Croatian kuna (US$2.8m) in the first quarter of 2006, up 165 per cent from ...
Gansu Qilianshan Cement acquires Shoulushan, China
Gansu Qilianshan Cement Co., Ltd. has bought Shoulushan Cement Co., Ltd., the biggest cement producer in Baiyin City of the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu.
Ash Grove design in Nevada Desert
Hill Lockwood Greene, a global full-service engineering, construction and operations firm, has secured a contract from FLSmidth to provide structural and architectural design fo...
Ancap invests to modernise cement plants, Uraguay
Raul Sendic, vice president of the state run Ancap, Uraguay, said the company board has approved investments of US$13m to modernise its cement plants.
Lafarge faces charges over plant fatalities
Three days after a worker died at the Lafarge Canada asphalt production plant on Moodie Drive, the company will be in court today on safety and health charges related to a fatal...
Holcim increases profit and sales, Czech Republic
Czech cement maker Holcim raised sales by four per cent year-on-year to Kc2.2 billion in 2005, chairman Roland van Wijnen told CTK today
Cemex expected to reject Indonesian minister’s move
Cemex Asia Holdings Ltd, which wants to sell its 24.9 per cent stake in state cement maker PT Semen Gresik, is expected to reject a move by Minister for State Enterprises Sugiha...
Vietnam demand on the rise
Domestic demand for cement is forecast to increase sharply to around 3.2-3.4Mt in May and June this year due to the peak in the construction season, according to the Ministry of...
TX Active from Italcementi
Carlo Pesenti, Italcementi Group CEO, presented the launch of the industrial scale production and marketing of photocatalytic products manufactured with the TX Active® principle...
Holcim gets backing to build new cement plant
Holcim is reportedly keen to build a new cement plant costing some US$305m at Nyergesújfalu, a small town in northwestern Hungary, 53km from Budapest, along the Slovakian border...
Jamaica cement shortage taking its toll
Construction industry leaders appealed to the Jamaican government to help resolve a cement shortage, saying it has idled construction and cost jobs. "We have to find a solution ...
Cement carrier runs aground off Florida
A Norwegian-flagged cement carrier, Spar Orion, ran aground off the coast of Port Everglades in Florida early on Wednesday, a US Coast Guard official said. The vessel, carrying ...
Cement price discounts – eyewash
The Builders Association of India, which had approached the government against cement companies for steep hike in prices, today termed as an "eyewash" the cement manufacturers&r...
Indonesia’s ’06 cement sales seen as flat
Indonesia’s domestic cement sales are expected to be flat this year after weak demand in the first quarter, a director of the country’s second largest producer said ...
Bulgarian cement producers Q1 2006 profit increases
Three international companies (Italcementi, Holcim and Titan) owning major Bulgarian cement producers posted a profit increase in the first quarter of 2006, local daily Dnevnik ...
Cement giants look to expand int’l presence
Brazil’s largest industrial conglomerates Camargo Corrêa and Votorantim are both in the running for the purchase of Spanish cement company Uniland, local daily Estado de S...
Anhui Chaodong Cement confirms sale
Anhui Chaodong Cement Group will sell a 40 per cent stake in listed Anhui Chaodong Cement Co Ltd to Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd and a 19.7 pct stake to WEALCITY, Anhui Chaodong Ce...
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