Pakistan cement market report
While expressing the hope that increase in cement demand will continue in months ahead, as GDP growth levels has stabilised above the six per cent per annum mark, Tariq Saigol, ...
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Moratorium on cement exports
The Pakistan cement industry and the government have reached an agreement to put a moratorium on cement exports for 25 days to contain its rising prices. This was announced here...
Gujarat Ambuja March cement shipments rise, India
Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd , India’s third-biggest cement maker, said on Monday its March shipments rose 13 percent from a year earlier to 1.33Mt. Production in the same ...
Steppe Cement: profits rise, Kazakhstan
Steppe Cement Limited operating subsidiary, Central Asia Cement JSC, has reported a full year pretax profit of KZT2562.5m compared with a year-earlier profit of KZT1590.9m. Co...
Ash Grove Cement Selects Pavilion
Pavilion Technologies, a world leader in model-based software, today announced that Ash Grove Cement Company has signed a sales agreement to deploy Pavilion’s cement contr...
St Lawrence Cement Group – case dismissed
St. Lawrence Cement Group is pleased to announce that the pending federal court litigation in Camden, New Jersey, involving the company’s GranCem(TM) grinding facility has...
Dalmacijacement net profit slumps
Croatian cement maker Dalmacijacement-RMC Group, now owned by Cemex, said on Monday its net profit fell last year to 47
Inekon to build cement works in Tajikistan
The Czech Inekon Group will build a new cement works worth US$100m in Tajikistan in two years under a contract recently signed with the company Izmoili Somonij. Inekon Group sai...
Anhui Conch increases share price, China
China’s Anhui Conch Cement Ltd said Tuesday two strategic investors will pay 3.7 per cent more per share for the minority stakes they had ag
Capital Group slips under the wire
Holcim Ltd has reported that The Capital Group Inc, based in Los Angeles now holds a 9.99 per cent stake in its shares, from 10 per c
JK Cement expansion on track, India
The capacity expansion programme of both white and grey cement are on schedule say JK Cement India. According to Mr A.K Saraogi, President, Corporate Affairs and CFO the capacit...
ACC monthly cement production, India
ACC cement production and despatch figures for the month of March 2006 were as follows: cement production 1.739Mt; cement despatches 1.746Mt. Over the January-March 2006 period...
Titan Cement buys ready-mix in Florida
Titan America LLC has bought two ready-mix concrete producers in Florida.
Lafarge bowing to investor pressure
Lafarge, owner of a 53.2 per cent stake in Lafarge Nor
EBRD to own 20 per cent of Garagah
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will purchase 20 per cent of the stock owned by Holcim, which gained a controlling interest in the company back in 19...
Cement shortage not affecting stadium work
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Local Organising Committee (LOC), Karan Singh has stated that the shortage of cement in the region is not affecting the construction ...
Govt to probe rise in cement prices
The Pakistan government has decided to probe the causes of rising cement prices and the ministry of industries and production has issued notices to the cement manufacturers to g...
Cement looks solid
The demand for cement in India continues to grow and despatches of major companies have been showing a concrete trend. With strong demand having firmed up cement prices, shares ...
Caltagirone SpA net profit increases
Italian holding company Caltagirone SpA posted a net profit of Euro 113.68m in 2005, up 199 per cent from Euro 51.91m in 2004. The 2005 results can be partly attributed to the O...
Cement firm fined over emissions
Castle’s Padeswood works has been fined UK£99,000 after admitting nine offences, including releasing more than the permitted amount of dioxins. Flintshire magistrates also told...
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