Dunbar emissions control
Scottish Dunbar cement works has passed a milestone in its GBP 20m programme to reduce emissions and improve environmental performance. A pre-cyclone system has been commission...
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Holcim to hedge IDR4 trillion debts
PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk may apply the strategy of hedging on its IDR4 trillion foreign currency debt in April and Mat to prevent from foreign exchange losses. The company regis...
Indonesia’s Jan-Feb cement consumption down slightly
Domestic cement consumption during the first two months to February this year dropped 2.2 per cent year-on-year to 4.46Mt, the Indonesian Cement Association (ASI) said in a repo...
Shree Cement to invest in capacity upgrade
Shree Cement Ltd plans to invest INR3 billion in the next fiscal year to boost its cement-making capacity as a booming local economy spurs a housing sector boom and increased go...
Vietnam cement prices go up
Because of the increasing costs of imported materials, the cement sector must raise retail prices in the domestic market to prevent further losses, according to the Vietnam Nati...
Work starts on central Vietnam cement plant
Construction on a cement plant, with a phase 1 capacity of 1.4Mta, kicked off Monday in Phong Dien of central Thua Thien - Hue province. The Dong Lam cement plant is to be built...
Southern cement company signs
A cement joint-stock company in the southern Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam, has signed a US$93m deal to equip its factory with technology from China’s Tianjin Cement Industry Desig...
Venezuela imports Cuban cement
Venezuela is to buy 500,000t of cement from Cuba, out of which 5000t will be delivered next week. Housing and Habitat minister Luis Figueroa, who is in Cuba to complete the deal...
Cement shortage batters construction sector
Cement distribution from the country’s sole manufacturer Carib Cement has come to a standstill. Sources at the company have confirmed reports that no cement has been sent ...
Maxit to build plant in Latvia
Maxit, a company of the German construction materials production group Heidelberg Cement, plans to build a new ceramsite panel production plant in Latvia. Ivi Anna Buce, board ...
Sumitomo Osaka Cement looks for higher profit
Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co said Monday that it aims to boost its group net profit fivefold to Y10 billion for the fiscal year ending March 2009, partly through cost reduction and ...
Tabuk Cement net profit up to US$41.3m
Saudi cement producer Tabuk Cement Company (TCC) registered an increase in net profit to 154.8 mln Saudi riyals (US$41.3m) for 2005, up from 128.6 mln riyals (US$34.2 mln/28.26 ...
Cemex expects higher profit for 2006
Cemex, the world’s third-largest cement maker, expects to obtain profit of some US$800m in 2006, up 26 per cent year-on-year, the Mexican press reported on March 20, 2006....
Zhigulevskiye Stroymaterialy reaches 50Mt of clinker
Zhigulevskiye Stroymaterialy JSC (Samara region) has produced 50Mt of clinker and 65Mt of cement. Design capacity of the company is 1.9Mt of cement per year. In 2005 the company...
Podilskyi Tsement to switch to dry
The Podilskyi Tsement cement company, which is one of the three largest producers of cement in Ukraine, intends to shift to the dry method of cement production. According to Ukr...
Ukrtsement explains cement production decline
The Ukrtsement Association has explained the year-on-year decline in cement production in January and February by seasonal factors that always influence this kind of production....
Govt yet to decide to buy back Cemex shares
The Indonesian government has yet to take a decision on the possibility of buying back Cemex Holding Asia Ltd shares in PT Semen Gresik following the Mexican company’s pla...
Mysore Cements: Holcim link?
Shares in loss-making company Mysore Cements Ltd, India, have shot up by 60 per cent since February 20 on the buzz that the company was finally coming out of difficult times, th...
Russian cement maker faces lawsuit
Eurocement Group, is being sued for US$100m in damages by US-registered equity fund Russia Partners, according to a statement issued jointly by Russia Partners and A1, a unit of...
FLSmidth wins Brazil plant order
FLSmidth has announced it has signed a deal with CSN-Cimentos SA covering design and supply of equipment for a slag cement grinding plant in Brazil. The 2.2Mta facility will b...
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