Shree Cement improves
Shree Cement, like other players in the Indian cement sector, has reported improved performance in the March 2006 quarter. Operating profit grew 100 per cent YoY to Rs 81.59 cro...
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HeidelbergCement unit falters, Bosnia
Tvornica Cementa Kakanj (TCK), a Bosnian cement plant owned by Germany’s HeidelbergCement, said on Tuesday it had a 2005 net profit of 12.34 million marka ($8m), down from...
Pakistan lifts ban on cement export to Afghanistan
Pakistan has lifted a ban on the export of cement to neighbouring war-battered country Afghanistan, but has increased its custom duties.
Andalas looks for Padang stake
PT Andalas Tuah Sakato (ATS) (no relation to Lafarge Andalas) hopes the government would let the company to acquire 25.53 per cent shares of Semen Padang that was allocated for ...
Valderrivas interested in Uniland
Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA’s cement unit Portland Valderrivas is eying ’with interest’ the acquisition of rival Cor
Analysts look for higher earnings from Holcim
Holcim could report higher first-quarter profits after the purchase of its third-largest competitor in India and an increased stake in a Chinese partner. Net income may have ris...
Guyana bagging plant set for July commissioning
Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) hopes its local US$9.3M bagging terminal, set to be commissioned in July, and complete with three 2000t silos, would help it meet local demand and has ...
Sabanci plans to invest more
Sabanci Group plans to spend up to US$3bn in the next five years building new power stations and electricity distribution systems to help feed the country’s expanding econ...
Baticim places best bid for Limas port
Turkish cement producer Baticim gave the best bid of US$45.25m for Limas, which operates a port in Izmir. The best bid was well above the minimum estimated value of USD 32m, set...
Peruvian cement exports up
Peru exports of cement jumped 27 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2006 to US$7.77m the country’s exporters’ association Adex said on May 5, 2006. The ex...
Pakistan cement output down
Pakistan’s cement output fell by 18 per cent to 1.5Mt in April from the March level, but output for the 10 months through April was 11 per cent higher than a year ago, an ...
Cement manufacturers benefiting from reclaimed waste
Thousands of tonnes of hazardous waste is being harnessed to manufacture Australian cement in an initiative to clean up the image of one of the world’s biggest polluting i...
Cement bags smuggled to Burma from Bangladesh
The smuggling of a massive amount of cement from Bangladesh to Burma has come to light. Thousands of cement bags are being smuggled to Burma from Bangladesh everyday through the...
Private sector to set up cement factory in Garmsar
Private sector is to establish a cement factory in Garmsar of Semnan Province, that would be the biggest one across the country, Hossein Sobhani, an official in the province’s g...
Liberia unable to reduce prices
As prices of cement, rice, gasoline, building materials amongst others continuously increase by the minute on the Liberian market, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has disclosed ...
Ciments Francais Q1 2006 net profit up
Ciments Francais SA posted a net profit of 60.9 mln euro for the first quarter of 2006, up by 67.5 per cent year-on-year. Operating profit surged by 103.5 per cent to 148.2 mln...
Cement consumption reaches 9.79Mt
Vietnam used 3.15Mt of cement in April, up 10 per cent on-year, brining the total figure to 9.79Mt in the first four months of this year, according to the Ministry of Constructi...
FLS supplies Hoang Thach
FLSmith and the northern Hai Duong province-based cement company on May 5 signed a contract of the bidding package No. 1 on supplying design, equipment, materials and technical ...
Jamaica suffering cement shortage
The Jamaica government says it is still awaiting a shipment of 20,000t of cement from Cuba as the island continues to reel from a shortage of the commodity. Industry Minister Ph...
Indocement reports higher net income
PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk posted a net income of Rp1429.9 billion in the first quarter ending at the end of March, it said in a statement. Indonesia’s second largest ce...
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