More expansion planned by NCF Dhubai
National Cement Factory , an Abu Dhabi-based cement company which is linking up with Holcim to build a new grinding plant in Abu Dhabi is also studying the feasibility of settin...
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Greece’s Titan Cement FY net likely to rise
Greeces Titan Cement is expected Feb 23, to announce a 14 per cent hike in 2005 full year group net profits of Euro 202m, analysts said. In a consensus poll taken by Euro2day....
ACC appoints Shailesh Haribhakti and Anil Singhvi
Shailesh Haribhakti and Anil Singhvi have been appointed as directors of the Associated Cement Companies Limited (ACC). The decision of their appointment was taken unanimously ...
Lone Star distribution plant approved
After a five-year legal battle, Lone Star Industries was issued a permit Friday to build and operate a riverfront barge facility to load cement in Sayler Park. The Louisville Di...
Indian bagging expertise
The Rs 200-crore Karur KCP Packaging company is one of the leading producers of extensible sack kraft paper, polypropylene bags and paper bags from southern part of the country....
Indonesia Jan cement consumption flat
Domestic cement consumption reached 2.24Mt in January, flat from a year ago, while exports fell 16.4 per cent year-on-year to 209,554t, the Indonesian Cement Association said. ...
Semen Gresik January cement sales
ndonesia’s largest cement maker PT Semen Gresik sold 1.12Mt of cement in January, up 7 per cent from the same month a year ago, according to the Indonesian Cement Associat...
FLSmidth wins US plant order
Danish engineering group FLSmidth has won an $247 million contract for a cement factory in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri from Switzerland’s Holcim . The order will contribute b...
Holcim in South Africa
The high demand for cement during 2005 and the prospect of such demand being sustained in the future through major infrastructure projects like the Gautrain rapid rail link, and...
Improving prices in China filtering through
Helped by higher prices at home and some improvements in China, Taiwan’s cement firms with plants in mainland China, including Taiwan Cement Corp, Asia Cement Corp and Chi...
JK Cement to tap market to fund expansion
JK Cement is entering the capital market to raise about Rs 300 crore to finance its expansion plan. The second largest domestic white cement manufacturer will invest Rs 220 cror...
Peru Cement Sales climb in January
Peruvian domestic cement sales increased to 382,167t in January 2006, up 14.17 per cent year-on-year, data of the Peruvian association of cement producers Asocem showed on Febru...
Indonesia’s January cement sales fall marginally
Indonesia’s domestic cement sales fell a marginal 0.1 per cent to 2.243Mt in January, data from the country’s cement association showed on Thursday. The decline fol...
Azores cement sales rise
Cement sales in Portugal’s autonomous region of the Azores Islands grew by 3.6 per cent year-on-year to 334,000t in 2005, according to data of the Azores statistics office...
No accidents at Italcementi Castrovillari Plant 2004-2005
No workplace accidents took place at the Castrovillari cement production plan of Italian construction company Italcementi near Cosenza in southern Italy, in the last two years, ...
Ukraine output static
The cement output of the 12 Ukrainian manufacturers, members of local cement producers’ association Ukrcement, totalled 430,800t in January 2006, up just 0.2 pct year-on-y...
Higher Colombian demand prompted massive prike hikes
The Colombian unit of Cemex will tell Colombia’s antitrust agency that it raised cement prices in December in tandem with higher demand, a company official said Thursday. ...
Fairborn plant hopes for tyre burn
Greene County Commissioners recently gave Cemex, with its cement production plant in Fairborn, permission to apply for a Scrap Tyre Grant as the company prepares to burn scrap t...
Cement profits rise in line with infrastructure growth
With a spurt in development of infrastructure projects, a majority of Indian cement firms clocked over 200 per cent increase in net profit for the third quarter of 2005-06, indu...
European resistance may affect EU investments in India
India is crying foul on the politicisation of steel magnate LN Mittal’s bid for Arcelor. Industry bodies are arguing that it would set a wrong precedent and there might be...
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