Kuwaiti Hilal cement nine month net profit down
Kuwaiti cement and building materials trader Hilal Cement Company posted a net profit of KWD1.1m (US$3.8m) in the first nine months of 2005, down from KWD1.4m (US$4.8m) in the s...
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Regulators approve Cementos del Caribe merger
Colombia’s securities regulator Supervalores and companies regulator Supersociedades have issued authorizations for the merger of cement firm Cementos del Caribe with seve...
Ontario cement plant to burn tires
The Lafarge cement plant in Bath, Ontario will be permitted to burn scrap tires as well as garbage such as cellulose, plastics and bone meal, in a $10-million tire and waste-bur...
Titan boosted by its US operations
Titan’s turnover for the first nine months rose by 16.2% to EUR 994.79m, with the operating profit at the EBITDA level rising a little more slowly by 13.6% to EUR 284.9m. ...
UK cement industry on right enviro track
The British Cement Association (BCA) has welcomed the publication of the Environment Agency’s sector plan for the cement industry. The sector plan is an important component of t...
Eurocement Group can solve cement shortages
Eurocement Group, Russia’s leading producer of building materials, is willing and able to solve the cement deficit problem, which could arise before 2010 - according to fo...
Cement plants could take GRP waste
Around 80 per cent of thermoset waste from the automotive industry could in future be used as a raw material and energy source in cement kilns. According to the European Composi...
Carib Cement to import cement
The management of Caribbean Cement Company has confirmed that it will be importing cement over the next four months in order to address the chronic shortage of the product on th...
Lafarge and Boral begin Vietnam plant
Lafarge, the French cement company, has begun construction of a plasterboard production unit in Vietnam, in collaboration with Australian building materials group Boral, for inv...
Saudi-Algerian cement plant to be built
A joint Saudi-Algerian cement plant worth $200m will be set up in the wilayat of Galfa, south of the Algerian capital Algiers, the chairman of the Arab Cement Union, Prince Sult...
Cimsa increases Jan-Sept 2005 net profits
Turkish cement producer Cimsa posted a 79.44 mln new Turkish lira ($58.47m) consolidated net profit for the first nine months of 2005, up from 45.55 mln lira ($33.54m) for the s...
Argos issues new bonds
Colombia’s biggest cement maker Cemento Argos has issued 450bn pesos (US$197m) in bonds on the local market, the country’s press reported. The funds raised with the...
DJ Thai Court To Rule On TPI Polene
Thailand’s Central Bankruptcy Court is scheduled to rule Tuesday on a petition by TPI Polene PCL to extend its debt restructuring plan for one more year to the end of 2006...
Cement prices in Vietnam
VNCC has committed to keep the prices stable in November and December, at VND720,000-760,000/tonne in the North and 840,000-940,000 in the South. But producers will be hard put ...
China ready to invest in Syrian cement
Syrian Minister of Economy and Trade Amer Lutfi said Wednesday that China may invest in the local cement industry. “Syria’s annual production of cement reaches 4.5Mt. People and...
YTL Malaysia improves
YTL Corp Bhd has reported a significant jump in both revenue and net profit to RM1.36bn and RM183.7m respectively for the first quarter ended Sept 30 on improved operating resul...
Dry bulk stability despite rate falls
While most rates had taken a southbound direction by mid week, pessimism does not seem to have spread out as far as the whole industry. One significant announcement has been mad...
Egyptian National Cement profit soars
National Cement Company (NCC) registered a record-high year-on-year increase of 1180 per cent in its net profit for the first quarter of the fiscal 2005/06, ending June 30, 2006,
Titan third quarter results improve
Greek cement firm Titan is expected to report a 6 per cent rise in third-quarter net profit this week, boosted by its US operations and a rebound in the domestic market, analyst...
Cemex to spend to increase output in Dominican Republic
Cemex said it would invest up to US$130m to install a new clinker production line to boost production at its San Pedro de Macorís plant in the Dominican Republic, newspaper List...
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