Municipal Waste Bound for Kingston
Lafarge Canada has applied for approvals to burn waste from Ontario, Quebec, and eight US states at its cement plant in Bath. This proposal has activists worried. "The Bath Alte...
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Top builders to join with WBCSD
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced today that it is forming an alliance of leading global companies to determine how buildings can be designed and ...
Lafarge and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Lafarge announces the results of its assessment of its internal control over financial reporting, carried out in accordance with the provisions of section 404 of the Sarbanes-Ox...
Lafarge to bid for Semen Gresik stake?
According to the Indonesian government, French building materials group Lafarge is among the bidders for a 25 per cent stake in PT Semen Gresik, Indonesia’s leading cement...
LSR Group to build St Petersburg plant
Russia,s St. Petersburg-based construction company LSR Group plans to build a cement plant worth about Euro 200m in Russia’s Leningrad Region, the press service of Ilya Kl...
Gresik to miss March 31 deadline
Indonesia’s largest cement maker PT Semen Gresik will miss the March 31 deadline for reporting its 2005 audited financialresults, investor relations head Agung Wiharto sai...
Colombian Argos plans
Colombian cement producer Cementos Argos is planning to enter the oil and hydroelectric business, according to modifications to its statutes approved during the latest sharehold...
Experts forecast higher Russian output
Russia will produce around 53Mt of cement, according to Eurocement Group experts. This is a 9.0 per cent increase on the previous year’s 48.5Mt. A record high output of 83...
Profit-booking in India Cements
Southern Indian cement maker India Cements is seeing sizeable selling by foreign-based funds. On Wednesday, CLSA sold 1.1 million shares at Rs 161. CLSA’s sale comes after...
Philippine producers cry wolf
The Cement Manufacturers Association of the Philippines (CEMAP) has asked the Trade department to reconsider its plans of giving incentives to new cement producers, saying exist...
Five banks sign for new line
Five commercial banks signed a contract in Hanoi on March 29 to provide US$120m for a project to build the second line of the Chinfon Hai Phong Cement Plant in the northern city...
Albert Frere keeps building Lafarge stake
Albert Frere, the Belgian entrepreneur, has increased his stake in Lafarge to more than eight per cent in a move that throws into question the future of the world’s larges...
Union rep says strike would be last resort in negotiations with Nevada Cement
Nevada Cement is negotiating with union representatives concerning two contract issues—health care premiums and the company’s pension plan—and if those negotiations don’t yield ...
Polysius acquires Maerz, Switzerland
Polysius has acquired Zurich-based Maerz Ofenbau AG of Switzerland strengthening the German supplier’s lime business.
Italcementi to invest EUR20m research centre, Italy
Italian cement group Italcementi will invest some EUR 20m (US$24.1m) in the construction of a new research centre. The group will invest in a research and innovation centre to s...
New tender for cement mill, Kenya
East African Portland Cement Company has re-advertised the tender for a new cement mill that was cancelled by government in January citing "serious flaws" in the procurement pro...
Cement industry sees end of crisis, Germany
The rebound in the construction industry is leading the German cement industry to predict its crisis is almost over, writes Handelsblatt, citing an internal trade group document...
Investment in cement-making to be welcomed, Pakistan
The government will welcome fresh investment in cement manufacturing as there is a bullish trend in Pakistan’s cement industry, said Minster for Industries, Production and...
Submissions filed against Lafarge proposal
Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and Gord Downie have filed an official submission to the Ministry of Environment recommending that Lafarge’s request to burn tires and other waste...
Misr Beni Suef Cement 2005 profit jumps, Egypt
The net profit of Egyptian Misr Beni Suef Cement (MBSC) jumped to E£132.8m (US$23.2m) in 2005 from E£51.5m (US$9m) in 2004, the company said in a statement to Cairo and Alexandr...
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