Boral to build $US55m clay brick plant in Indiana
Boral Ltd will invest $US55m to build a new clay brick plant in Terre Haute, Indiana. The new facility will produce a variety of brick sizes and colours with a capacity to produ...
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FLS South African orders
FLSmidth A/S said Monday it has been awarded a contract for a cement line by Pretoria Portland Cement in South Africa. The contract is worth some DKK200 million. In addition to ...
CRH eyes Belgian buildings accessories business
CRH is in final negotiations to acquire the family controlled Winsol, the Belgian market leader in PVC and aluminium windows and doors, roller blinds and awnings, both domestic ...
Fauji Foundation to sell cement firm stake
Pakistan’s Fauji Foundation on Monday put up for sale a 52 per cent stake in Fauji Cement Company Ltd. (FCCL) . FCCL shares were up
Cement sales up in November
Pakistan ’s total cement sales during the month of November as compared to the previous year went up by eight per cent and were noted at 1.194Mt. The All Pakistan Cement
Pakistan could permit Indian imports
India’s cement industry, which exported over 10Mt of cement and clinker last year, might witness a surge in demand with neighbouring Pakistan expected to allow import of t...
Federal Antimonopoly Service withdraws claims
The Russian Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Nizhniy Novgorod region has notified Eurocement that it withdrew its requirement for the company to submit on ...
Lafarge North America to improve pipe production
Lafarge North America, the leading supplier of construction materials in the US and Canada, today announced that it will build a new concrete pipe plant in Edmonton, Alberta and
Robust PPC wins Zimbabwe award
Pretoria Portland Cement Company Limited (PPC) took the pole position in Construction & Property Sector Category of the 2005 Fingaz/Premier Banking Corporation 2005 Top Companie...
Japanese producers to boost profits
Taiheiyo Cement Corp and Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co are both expected to raise group operating profit by more than 10 per cent for the year through March next year. The forecast
Saudi construction data
According to local reports, official statistics issued by the Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Industry show that the total number of the operating building materials manufacturing
Algerian ECDE exceeds output targets
Algerian cement producer l’Entreprise des ciments et derives de Chlef (ECDE) exceeded its 2.0Mt output target for full 2005 on December 2, 2005, the company CEO said. The...
supplies ’could run out next week’
Bermudan cement supplies could run dry by early next week, an industry chief warned last night. Bermuda Cement Company president Jim Butterfield predicted a "week of agony" loom...
Ontario cement plant to burn tyres and waste
The Lafarge cement plant in Bath, Ontario will be permitted to burn scrap tyres as well as garbage such as cellulose, plastics and bone meal, in a controversial US$10m tyre and ...
TCL back on-stream
By the end of this week, Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) will raise its production to meet the demands of local and foreign markets. This assurance was given yesterday by TCL chief ex...
Nicolini sells 5000 Cementir shares
Riccardo Nicolini, general manager and director of Italian cement group Cementir, a unit of local construction company Caltagirone, has sold on the market a further 5000 Cementir
FLSmidth order book at Euro 804.1m
The order book of Danish engineering and cement group FLSmidth has reached a record-high volume of some 6.0 bln Danish crowns (Euro 804.1m), the group’s managing director,
Holcim Romania opens "clean" concrete plant
Holcim Romania said on Wednesday it spent US$2.36m to open its 11th environmentally friendly concrete plant. The new plant has an output capacity of 120 cubic metres of
Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction
In conjunction with Montreal 2005: United Nations conference on climate change, the Cement Association of Canada has gathered together Canadian industry leaders in sustainable c...
Savinskiy Cement increases production
Savinskiy Cement Plant (the Arkhangelsk region) increased production of cement by eight per cent in January-November 2005, to 668,000t, up 8,0 from the figure reported in entire...
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