TCL to supply cement to Antigua-Barbuda
The availability of cement on the local market to supply the construction industry, especially the new Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, has been the subject of attention over the pa...
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Domestic cement deliveries up 7.9%, Switzerland
The domestic cement deliveries in Switzerland’s cement industry increased by 7.9 per cent YoY to 4.268Mt in 2005, the local industry association Cemsuisse said.
Jiangxi joint venture, China
Jiangxi Wannianqing Cement Co, Ltd (Jiangxi Cement) announced on January 5 that the company has clinched an agreement with a building material company in Ganzhou city in
VNCC to import 1-1.3Mt of clinker in 2006
The Vietnam Cement Corporation (VNCC), the main cement producer in Vietnam, will import between 1-1.3Mt of clinker this year in order to ensure sufficient material for its produ...
ClearWater may buy stake in SCL
Private equity funds like ADM Capital and ClearWater Capital are in talks with the Saurashtra Cement (SCL) management to pick up a minority stake in the company. The board of di...
Cost-cutting key as growth momentum slows
The Siam Cement Group, the country’s largest industrial conglomerate, has forecast that the building material industry will be stagnant this year despite the continued gro...
Saudi Arab Cement profit up
Saudi Arabia’s Arab Cement has reported 2005 net profit of SR333m (US$88.80m), up 8.7 per cent from the last year’s figure which was inflated by a one-off capital ga...
Gujarat Ambuja describes Holcim plan as `speculative’
Gujarat Ambuja Cement Limited (GACL), which has entered into a strategic alliance with Swiss cement major Holcim, described as ‘speculative’ the overseas firm’s plan...
New Contracts Greco
Greco Contracts in 2005
Two mills from Gebr Pfeiffer
Gebr Pfeiffer, Germany has received a contract from Arabian Cement Company, Saudi Arabia for supplying the grinding plant for the production of 750tph of raw meal. The plant will
New order for ABB
ABB has been awarded a contract by TXI, the largest producer of cement in Texas and a major producer in California, for part of a complete new cement plant near Riverside,
GCC buys Four US concrete companies
Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) has bought four ready-mix concrete companies in the USA for an undisclosed sum, GCC said on January 5, 2006. GCC bought Consolidated
Texas Industries hopes to recover higher energy costs in 2006
In the six months to the end of November, Texas Industries increased turnover from continuing operations by 14.6 per cent to US$462.6m, while the trading profit emerged 59.1 per...
Semen Gresik expects Trillion net profit in 2006
Corporate Secretary of Semen Gresik, Agung Wiharto, said that the company was targeting to reach Rp1 trillion of net profit in 2006, or 10-15 per cent higher than 2005
TN scraps dual sales tax on cement
The Tamil Nadu government today issued orders scrapping the dual sales tax system on cement and levying a uniform tax of 14 per cent on all grades of cement at the first point of
Leading calcium aluminates producer on the block
Materis, the specialist construction products group created by Lafarge in 2001 to help finance the acquisition of Blue Circle industries, looks likely to change hands for the th...
Qassim Cement profit rises
Qassim Cement said yesterday its net profit for 2005 rose 14.6 per cent to SR282 million (US$75.20m). A statement on the stock market website said the figure was provisional.
Taiheiyo Cement’s interest-bearing debt
Taiheiyo Cement Corp anticipates consolidated interest-bearing liabilities will total 650 billion yen as of March 31, falling 15.9 billion yen on the year. Interest-bearing lia...
US to announce decision on cement imports
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) will announce on January 12 a decision on its review of the import tariffs it applies to Mexican cement, newspaper El Norte reported.
British Cement Association: Compliance with new waste incineration directive
All four members of the British Cement Association – Buxton Lime Industries, Castle Cement, Cemex UK and Lafarge UK – fully comply with the Waste Incineration Directive (WID) wh...
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