BPB board agrees to £3.9bn deal
British plasterboard maker BPB was last night recommended a 775p-a-share offer from French suitor Saint Gobain. The £3.9billion deal will mark the end of an increasingly hostile...
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Markets still lack direction
Despite some improvement on the Capesize front the dry bulk market is still lacking direction particularly if we compare it to last year during the same period when rates were r...
Order updates from Polysius
A 6000 tpd cement production line for Sarooj Bushehr International Sarooj Bushehr Intl. Company/Iran have decided to build a new 6000 tpd cement production line on a green fie...
City Commission meets November 28
Florida: Newberry city commissioners said that on Nov. 28, they plan to cast the final vote for or against the special-use permit that would let the Florida Rock cement plant on...
New cement factory to be set up in Abu Dhabi
A new Dh 200m (US$54m) cement plant will be set up in Abu Dhabi, local investors revealed as reported by a local daily on Wednesday. The Abu Dhabi-based Al-Ittihad Arabic daily ...
Cement consumption in Spain up
Cement consumption in Spain rose by 4.98 per cent year-on-year to 42.2Mt in the first 10 months of 2005, the Spanish cement makers association Oficemen said on November 15,
Barloworld ’on track’
South African industrial brands group Barloworld on Wednesday reported a five per cent increase in headline earnings per share. The group’s net profit was up 23 per cent t...
Indonesia’s Oct cement sales down
Indonesia’s domestic cement sales volumes, an indicator of economic activity, fell 6.1 per cent in October to 2.78Mt from a year earlier, the country’s largest cemen...
French HSBC cuts stake in Cimpor
French financial group HSBC Financial Products has reduced its stake in the share capital of Portuguese cement company Cimpor to 1.06 per cent, Cimpor announced in a report to P...
Deputy criticises lack of action
The Irish government has failed to act on the "rip-off" practices by firms such as Cement Roadstone Holdings, which the European Court of Justice found to have engaged in "serio...
Karur KCP bags orders
Karur KCP Packagings Ltd today said it has bagged orders worth Rs 12.05 crore from cement industries as well as other sectors for supplying packaging materials. It received the ...
CP Cimento mulls partial sale
Brazil’s seventh largest cement producer, CP Cimento has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to find a buyer for part of its business, newspaper Valor Econômico reported. ...
JLP blames monopoly for cement shortage
Senator Shirley Williams, Jamaica Labour Party spokesperson on industry, commerce and investment, has raised questions about the current shortage of cement, suggesting that it w...
City officials debate expanding cement plant
USA: Newberry city officials deliberated for hours Monday about the proposed expansion of Florida Rock Industries’ cement plant, with experts for the company arguing for a...
TCL temporarily shuts down operations
A 31 year old electrician, Sunil Balgobin, died less than 24 hours after he fell from a scaffold on Monday, while 17-year-old Dinesh Rampersad was entombed in cement on Saturday...
China seeks cleaner, more efficient forms of energy
China is seeking cleaner and more efficient forms of energy as soaring oil and coal consumption poses an increasing threat to the environment and surging prices threaten to unde...
Jaiprakash Associates to increase cement capacity
Jaiprakash Associates Limited, a flagship company of Jaypee Group, has embarked on a Rs 900 crore cement manufacturing expansion that would see its total capacity going up to 10...
Lithuanian cement news
Akmenes Cementas, Lithuania’s only cement manufacturer, reported sales of 103.37 million litas (Euro 29.96m) for the first ten months of 2005, a rise of 13.8 per cent from...
Caltagirone profits soar
Caltagirone, the Italian diversified group, saw its consolidated turnover jump year-on-year by 89.2 per cent in the first nine months of 2005, to Euro 760.6m. Even more spectacu...
Cement Production Up By 17.3%
In October, Ukranian cement production rose by 17.3 per cent compared with October 2004, to 1,229,000t, the State Statistics Committee has disclosed. However, cement production ...
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