Taiwanese groups: profits rising
Due to an expected 10 per cent rise in the price of export cement, Taiwan’s cement firms will likely see their average profit margins increase two per cent next year. An ...
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Takeover bid for Cementos Lemona
A unit of Spain’s Fomento de Construcciones & Contratas SA has launched a takeover bid of Euro 248.3m a share, for mid-size cement producer Cementos Lemona SA. The unit, C...
Thomaston has asked to participate in Dragon permitting
Thomaston has a direct and sustantial interest in participating in this hearing," wrote the town’s attorney, Paul Gibbons, in a Nov. 15 letter to the Board of Environmenta...
Cement ship sinks in Italian storm
Bad weather has battered much of Italy, sinking a cargo ship off the north-west coast after strong winds drove it into a breakwater.
Cement sector’s capacity may expand
Pakistan: with all the expansions coming online left right and centre, investors are confused about how much total supply of cement will be there in the market. According to cal...
Market prices likely to rise towards year’s end
The Vietnamese General Statistics Office reported that the consumer price index (CPI) in November rose by 0.4 per cent against October, of which food and foodstuffs increased by...
WTO could harm cement trades
Local cement manufacturers called on counterparts in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Federation of Cement Manufacturers to resist moves in the World Trade Orga...
Holcim makes Management changes
Holcim Ltd said Bill Bolsover, chief operating officer of recently-acquired Aggregate Industries, will become the unit’s chief executive.
Indonesia’s Gresik profit rise
State cement firm PT Semen Gresik expects its full-year net profit this year to rise by about 50 per cent from R520.59bn in 2004 on better cost efficiency and cement prices, com...
Trinidad also grappling with shortage
Reports have surfaced that Trinidad Cement Limited the parent company of Jamaica’s Caribbean Cement Company is also grappling with a shortage of supplies. A report in the ...
Customs arrest smuggled goods concealed in cement
Ghana Customs and Excise have intercepted an articulated truck loaded with bags of cement but concealed in 1066 pieces of real wax prints and 32 dozens of under-wear smuggled fr...
Bermuda: concern over cement supplies
The West End Development Corporation (Wedco) has failed to secure a deal with cement giant Cemex to take over the Bermuda Cement Company plant next month, informed industry sour...
Gulf Cement Doha – clinker production
A public shareholding company to be called Gulf Cement Company with a paid up capital of QR800m is being established, said Abdullah bin Nasser Al Misnad, Chairman of the company...
Taiheiyo Cement improves first half trading performance
Some recovery in domestic cement deliveries, higher lime exports and the growing waste processing operations have enabled Taiheiyo Cement Corporation to increase turnover for th...
Growth in building materials production
In Jan-Oct 2005 Armenia produced building materials worth 10.373bn AMD - 20.4 per cent more than in Jan-Oct 2005, reports the trade and economic development ministry. The sales ...
Afghanistan cement project
The US trade & development agency recently provided a grant to the local ministry of mines & industries to enable the completion of a project feasibility study regarding various...
LVT enters into co-operation agreement with FLS
LV Technology PCL has entered into a Co-operation Agreement with FL Smidth A/S of Denmark with respect to product research and development activities for the cement industry. As...
Cementir invests in white cement
Cementir, which acquired Aalborg Portland Cement last year, is building a new import terminal for white cement at Tampa in Florida. This terminal, which will come on stream in ...
HeidelbergCement to buy Danish importer
HeidelbergCement, the sole cement producer in both Sweden and Norway, has signed an agreement with the Bach group to acquire Randers Cement and DK Beton. Randers Cement is the ...
Cement shortage affects construction industry
A shortage of cement in Jamaica is affecting various government projects including the much-touted “Highway 2000” initiative. The Incorporated Master Builders Association (IMBA)...
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