Cement industry needs more workers
Vietnam’s cement industry is estimated to need around 10,000 workers to operate production lines between now and 2010, according to the Vietnam Cement Corporation (VNCC). ...
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Indonesian cement consumption
Cement consumption in Indonesia rose 6.2 per cent in the ten months to October to 26.80Mt from 25.25Mt consumed in the same period last year, according to the Indonesian Cement...
Peru October cement sales
Peruvian cement sales in October 2005 totalled 456,565t, up 11.4 per cent year-on-year, the cement makers association Asocem said on November 15, 2005. In September 2005, the c...
Cruz Azul starts new plant construction in Mexico
Mexican cement maker Cruz Azul and Polysius, a unit of German heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp, started the construction of a cement plant in Palmar de Bravo, eastern Mexico, o...
Cement Industry on track to achieve environmental objectives
The British Cement Association (BCA) has today (15 November 2005) welcomed the publication of the Environment Agency’s sector plan for the cement industry. The sector plan is an...
Haryana seeks investment in ash based units
The Indian Haryana Power Generation Corporation (HPGC) has invited proposals from private entrepreneurs for setting up of manufacturing units of ash based products such as cemen...
Argentine’s Juan Minetti
Argentina’s cement producer Juan Minetti posted a net profit of 67.5m Argentine pesos (US$22.7m) for the period from January to September 2005, up by 65.5 per cent year-on...
Misr Cement Qena 9-month profit up
Egypt’s Misr Cement Qena reported a net audited profit of 120 million Egyptian pounds (US$20.8m) in the nine months to the end of September, up 124 per cent from 53 millio...
Competition board hints of long review on plant sale
Mustafa Parlak, head of Competition Board, said that it did not seem likely for the board to give its decision regarding the sale of cement companies, previously owned by the Uz...
Holcim Thai unit to sell bonds
A Thai unit of Switzerland-based Holcim Ltd, Holcim Capital (Thailand) Ltd, will likely sell up to THB8 billion of senior secured bonds with three-year, five-year, and seven-yea...
More on the Lafarge jv China
Lafarge Shui On Cement, which is 55 per cent owned by the Paris-based group and was formed with the local Shui On Construction And Materials Ltd. (SOCAM) group in late summer, i...
Benue Cement targets rights offer
Benue Cement Company Plc, Nigeria is targeting N6.93 billion from its rights offer of 1.980 billion ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at N3.50 per share. The offer which opened on...
Buzzi Unicem widens margins
Buzzi Unicem’s cement volume grew by 1.1 per cent to 24.6Mt in the first nine months of the year, while ready-mixed concrete deliveries rose by 2.1 per cent to 11.7m m³. Of tho...
Republic Bank funds TCL bond
Republic Finance & Merchant Bank Limited recently provided Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) with a US$20 million loan and a TT$315 million bond issue. The financing package, which ...
Cement exports decline
The start of winter season, coupled with snowfall, in Afghanistan has resulted in a decline of six percent in Pakistan cement exports by the end of October. Sources in the indus...
Lyons plant enviro debate
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment inspectors claim Cemex ran a faulty filtration system and allowed trucks to stir up dust on its property just east of Lyons ...
Akhangarancement exports cement
Akhangarancement exported cement for US$2.41 million this year. The cement was delivered to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Akhangarancement is located 65 km South East ...
Vietnam cement output up
The cement sector expects to produce 29 million tonnes this year, up 9.5-10 per cent against last year’s figure, according to the Vietnam Cement Corporation. In the first ten mo...
Group to set up Dh250m cement factory in Al Ain
A new cement factory with an investment of Dh250 million will be set up in Al Ain to meet the growing demand for cement. This private sector factory will initially have a produc...
Cement importers gearing up for renewed lobby
Cement importers are gearing up to renew their lobby for the Government to remove the 40 percent tariff which was imposed on cement one year ago. The move comes in the wake of a...
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