Kuwait Portland Cement net profit falls
The net profit of Kuwaiti cement trader Kuwait Portland Cement fell to 4.3m Kuwaiti dinars ($14.7m) in the first nine months of 2005 from 5.1m dinars ($17.4m) in the same period of
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Holcim CEO seeks to have case dismissed
Lawyers for the CEO of Holcim Ltd asked a court Tuesday to dismiss a fraud case alleging shareholder manipulation during the Swiss company’s purchase of a Dominican cement...
Thai Holcim unit sets coupon
The Thai financial arm of Holcim Group has set coupons for a bond issue worth 8 billion baht ($194m) expected next week, a fund manager said on Wednesday. The secured bonds, t...
Cement demand could be at peak
The current South African cement boom, driven largely by the consumer-housing boom, is possibly at its peak, commented Aveng CEO Carl Grim yesterday. Grim, addressing media and ...
Riyadh Cement may raise capital
Prince Faisal ibn Abdul Majeed, chairman of the board of Saudi White Cement and Riyadh Cement, will preside over a meeting of the board to discuss a number of important topics i...
China cement exports up
China exported 7.9Mt of cement in the first nine months of 2005, up 78.6 per cent year-on-year, it was reported on November 28, 2005. The value of exported cement stood at $283m...
JK Cement aims for captive power
JK Cement Ltd is planning to raise resources from the public for establishing an additional coal-based captive thermal power plant of 40mW at its Nimbahera plant campus in Rajas...
HeidelbergCement in deal with Tenir Group
The Kazakh industrial concern Tenir Group has agreed to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary Buchtarma Cement Company to HeidelbergCement. Buchtarma Cement Company trades as Vostok...
Cemento Melón plans investment for 2006
Chilean cement company Cemento Melón, which is owned by Lafarge,has plans to invest some US$12m in 2006, newspaper La Segunda quoted the company’s finance director Joao Pe...
Eurocement produces more cement
Moscow: the Eurocement Group produced 19.7Mt of cement in the first 10 months of 2005 including output from the two Ukrainian enterprises of the group produced in the same
Portland launches sales drive
The East African Portland Cement company yesterday launched a Sh24 million campaign to advance its penetration of the local cement market. The end user promotion runs until Febr...
CP Cimento sale likely
CP Cimento is now reportedly up for sale. The indebted and loss-making cement maker is Brazil’s seventh largest with a five per cent market share and operates four plants in the
US cement forecasts
Experts predict cement consumption this year to increase more than five per cent over 2004 levels, despite this year’s hurricanes. Residential construction is expected to ...
Cement and chocolate
House of Representatives’ Commission VI urged the government to include cement industry and chocolate manufacturing sector in the Investment Negative List (...
Saudi-Algerian Cement Company
President of the Arab Cement Federation, Prince Sultan ibn Muhammad, said that a Saudi-Algerian cement company would be established at a total cost of SR200m, Al-Watan
Private entrepreneurs to construct 20 new cement plants, Iraq
The government has issued licenses for the construction by private entrepreneurs of 20 new cement plants, according to the minister of industry and minerals. The minister, Osama...
Construction of Son Duong cement plant begins
Work started on November 25 for the construction of the Son Duong cement plant with a capacity of 400,000 tonnes a year in the mountainous northern province of Tuyen Quang.
JLP calls for reduction of cement duty
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) spokesperson on industry, commerce and investment, Senator Shirley Williams, has urged the government to immediately restore normality to the
Saudi-Tunisian plan to be established, Tunisia
A $135m cement plant with joint Saudi and Tunisian investments will be established in Tunisia, unnamed Saudi investors said. The cement plant will be located in al-Akareet region
Lafarge to build plant in Bordeaux
Lafarge Ciments, the cement division of the eponymous French building materials group, is to invest more than 20m euros in its new slag-crushing plant in the industrial zone of ...
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