Cement Plant Becomes Operational in Quang Binh
The Vietnamese Song Gianh cement plant, at total investment of VND3.2 trillion ($202.5m), was officially put into operation in central Quang Binh province on February 19. The p...
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Lafarge benefits from strong 2H
Lafarge said full year operating profit was Euro 2.357bn, up seven per cent on the year and up four per cent at constant prices. For the 2H period operating income was up 17 per...
India to export cement to Pakistan
Pakistani companies are finding it difficult to cope with the rising demand of cement. Accordingly, The Indian Cement Manufacturers’ Association (CMA), an apex body representing...
Holly Hill to use nonhazardous solid waste
Energis LLC, has begun supplying nonhazardous solid waste as fuel at the Holcim Holly Hill, South Carolina, plant. The waste, which will include plastics, oil absorbents, wood a...
Falcon Cement Company Bahrain
Falcon Cement Company has recently appointed India-based ERCOM Engineering Company to develop the design of the new cement plant which will cover an area of more than two millio...
Saurashtra Cement approves convertible debt issue
Saurashtra Cement Ltd. said on Tuesday its board had approved an issue of convertible debentures worth 931.25 million rupees to Cayman Islands-based ADM Maculus Fund II LP. Th...
HeidelbergCement 2005 sale
HeidelbergCement said it swung to a 2005 net profit of EUR415 million following a loss of EUR366 million the year before and will propose a dividend payment of EUR1.15 a share. ...
Lafarge launches $3bn cash buyout
Lafarge has launched a tender for the 46.8 per cent stake it does not already own in Lafarge North America Inc. as part of a $3bn offer that expires on March 20, the world&rsquo...
Cemex Venezuela unit reopens
The Venezuelan unit of Mexican cement company Cemex (CX) reopened its administrative offices Tuesday after the Seniat tax authority shut them on Monday for bookkeeping irregular...
OCC posts higher profits
Oman Cement Company (OCC) achieved a net profit of 18.2 mln Omani rials ($47.4m) for 2005, compared to 13.2 mln rials ($34.3m) for 2004, the company said in a statement to the O...
Kenya must set up environmental policy
The Kenyan Government has been asked to formulate an environmental management policy. Mvita MP Najib Balala said yesterday that the Government needed to work closely with key p...
ACCC exports 19,000t of cement
According to El-Khabar newspaper (February 20, 2006), the Algerian Cement Company (ACC), Algeria’s first and only private cement plant, has exported 19,300t of cement and clinke...
Bolu Cimento posts higher profits
Turkish cement producer Bolu Cimento posted a 38 mln lira (US$27.9m) net profit in 2005, up from 21.7 mln lira (US$15.9m) in 2004. Gross profit was 50 mln lira ($36.8m). Net sa...
Higher Cement Prices in Ethiopia
Incremental increases in cement prices over the last few months helped boost gross profits of the state-owned Mugher Cement Factory by 46 percent, sources disclosed to The Daily...
Law & order concerns Karachi
Dr. Muhammad Aslam, President of Lasbella Chamber of Commerce has expressed concern over law and order situation in Hub since past few weeks during which bomb blasts in various ...
Semen Gresik expects infrastructure surge
PT Semen Gresik, Indonesia’s largest cement maker, expects sales this year to rise on the back of an expected surge in national infrastructure investment, a senior company...
Lithuania’s Akmenes raises sales
Akmenes Cementas, Lithuania’s only cement manufacturer, posted 6.173 million litas (Euro 1.8m) in sales for January, a surge of 47.3 per cent from the year-earlier figure ...
Eurocement Group produces more cement
Eurocement Group produced 22.5Mt of cement last year. The Ukrainian enterprises of the Holding produced 2.8Mt of cement. Last year it was approved and started the realisation o...
China’s output of cement in December 2005
China produced 101,860,800t of cement in December 2005. The output in January-December reached 1,038,300,000t, up 11.6 per cent year on year, according to the National Bureau of...
Mardin Cimento to build new clinker unit
Turkish cement, clinker and ready-mixed concrete producer Mardin Cimento will start the construction of an additional clinker production facility, worth Euro 45m in March 2006, ...
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