Century Textiles expanding cement activities
Century Textiles & Industries Ltd, a BK Birla Group company, is expanding its cement business by setting up a stand-alone grinding unit in West Bengal. According to a senior o...
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Holcim enters UAE cement market
Holcim Trading, a fully-owned subsidiary of Holcim Ltd, has acquired a 25 per cent stake in National Cement Factory (NCF) based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The com...
Colombian cement producers agree price cut
Cement makers in Colombia have agreed with the government to reduce their prices after the country’s antitrust authority began an investigation into whether three
Heady climb for cement
The domestic Indian cement industry is currently passing through a consolidation phase. The industry has experienced a growth of eight per cent (CAGR) for the past one-and-a-hal...
PPC cement prices to rise soon
Customers of PPC can expect price increases of, on average, roughly 5% soon, says CEO John Gomersall.
Cementos Lemona rules out job cuts
The sale of Spanish cement firm Cementos Lemona to rival group Portland Valderrivas will not effect production activities or job numbers, Cementos Lemona management told the com...
Saudi extends cement exemption
Saudi Arabia will run the exemption on the five per cent customs tariff on cement imports from outside the GCC for another year, according to Gulf News. Saudi cut customs tariff...
AP cement industry sees Rs 15 hike per bag
The cement industry anticipates a sharp rise in prices in Andhra Pradesh as the demand for the commodity is growing day by day.
Castro to send 500,000t of cement to Chávez
Venezuela will soon receive 500,000t of cement from Cuba to help relieve local shortages of the construction material, Venezuelan press quoted President Hugo Chávez as saying.
Colombia to probe cement makers on alleged price fixing
The Colombian government Wednesday will start investigating three top cement suppliers suspected of collusion to fix prices.
Ukrsotsbank opens UAH 10m credit line to Podilskyi Tsement
Ukrsotsbank ranking among top ten Ukrainian banks has opened UAH 10m credit line to the Podilskyi Tsement cement company (Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi region), which is one...
Lafarge facing US lawsuit
French building materials group Lafarge SA is facing a class action lawsuit in the US from minority shareholders of its Lafarge North America business alleging the price the gro...
Lafarge Slovenia sales in 2005
Trbovlje-based cement producer Lafarge Cement saw its sales rise 12 per cent in 2005, the company’s CEO Franci Blaznek said on Friday, 3 February. The 542,000t of cement a...
Saudi Eastern Province Cement Q3
Saudi cement producer Eastern Province Cement Company (EPC) posted a net profit of 74.6 mln Saudi riyals ($19.9m) in the third quarter of 2005, up from 62.8 mln riyals ($16.7m) ...
Ciments Francais turnover up
Ciments Francais, a unit of Italian cement group Italcementi, generated a turnover of Euro 3.595bn in 2005, up 17.5 per cent year-on-year, the company said in a statement on Feb...
Gulf Cement 2005 profit increase
UAE cement maker Gulf Cement Company registered a 269 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit in 2005 to 502.5 mln UAE dirhams ($136.8m) the company said on February 5, 200...
CEEM raises stake in Bosnian TCK
The Netherlands-based asset manager Central & Eastern European Markets Asset Management AG (CEEM) has increased its stake in Bosnian cement producer Tvornica Cementa Kakanj (TCK...
Aggregates acquires two concrete operations
Aggregate Industries has bought two small companies, acquiring Sitebatch and Roller Compacted Concrete, both based in Bourne, Lincolnshire, for an undisclosed sum. The two firms...
Cement production in north Khorasan set to surge
The development plan of the Iranian Bojnurd Cement Plant is estimated to be completed in the next two years, increasing the plant’s daily output from 2000 to 5300tpd. Three othe...
Cement production in north Khorasan set to surge
The development plan of the Iranian Bojnurd Cement Plant is estimated to be completed in the next two years, increasing the plant’s daily output from 2000 to 5300tpd. Three othe...
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