St-Gobain extends BPB offer
Saint-Gobain SA said it will extend its offer for UK plasterboard maker BPB, but refrained from raising its GBP3.7 billion bid. The two companies were in talks over the weekend ...
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Lafarge, Shui confirm new joint venture
Lafarge and Shui On Construction And Materials Limited, the top cement producer in southwest China, have formed a joint venture partnership to merge their cement operations in C...
Cement firms ’must cut CO2 emissions’
UK cement producers unveiled a report on how the industry must change to help reduce its environmental and socio-economic impact last week. The report by the sustainability tas...
VNCC to raise capacity
The Vietnam Cement Corporation (VNCC), which now holds 45 per cent of the domestic market share, plans to raise the capacity of its existing cement kilns by 10 per cent in a bid...
Florida Rock Industries
Florida Rock Industries, Inc announced today that its management is unaware of any material, undisclosed development in its business affairs that would account for the unusual
Turkish Akcansa net profit surges
Turkish cement producer Akcansa posted a 89.6 mln new Turkish lira (US$65.87m) net profit, up 58 per cent year-on-year for the first nine months of 2005. The company gross
Eurocement Group to implement upgrade program
Eurocement Group in line with the upgrade program of enterprises is planning in 2005-2007 to spend more than $560m. In the near future the company will launch the construction of a
Stake in Savinskiy Cement Plant to be auctioned
The Arkhangelsk regional department of the Russian Federal Property Fund announced on sale of 38,778 common shares, or 25 per cent of the charter capital of Savinskiy Cement Pla...
China’ cement production slows
China’s output of cement reached 756.3Mt in the first ten months of this year, rising 15.25 per cent over the same period of last year. But the growth was at the lowest level si...
Holcim’s Missouri plant
Construction of a US$600m cement plant that has been delayed for years by environmental lawsuits will get under way within the next six months, company officials said. Holcim sa...
Gharibwal’s on stream by 2008
The new cement plant of Gharibwal Cement Limited will be commissioned and ready for production by 2008. "It will then be in a position to begin payout of dividend to its shareho...
Cimpor invests in South Africa
Cimpor said that on November 9, 2005, the South African company Natal Portland Cement Company (Proprietary) Ltd., 100 per cent indirectly held by Cimpor, signed an agreement for...
Holcim sees integration benefits from acquisitions
In the first nine months of the year, Holcim increased cement and clinker volume by 7.4 per cent to 83.0Mt. Downstream volumes expanded at a faster rate, largely thanks to the ...
Cementir sees growth in Turkey
The results of Cementir’s first nine months show the effect of the acquisition of Aalborg Portland Cement and Unicon towards the end of October last year. Turnover rose by...
UAE cement consumption seen up to 11Mt in 2005
UAE’s cement consumption is expected to grow to 11Mt in 2005 because of the booming construction sector, the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC) said in a r...
Florence cement plant eyes further expansion
A day after a rival touted its proposed Pueblo cement plant, Holcim Inc. on Tuesday disclosed plans to study the possible expansion of its cement plant by 20 per cent Holcim als...
Cemex plans 20% price rise in Latvia
Cemex, owner of Latvia’s Broceni cement production plant, plans a 20% price rise in Latvia in 2006, the company reported.
Denmark and Vietnam cooperate in cement production
A conference on cement production was co-organised by the Danish Embassy and the Vietnam Cement Corporation in Ha Noi on 8 November.
Holcim Romania sales up 13.6% YoY Jan-Sept 2005
Holcim Romania, a unit of Swiss cement company Holcim Ltd, sales rose by 13.6% year-on-year in nominal terms for the first nine months of 2005. The company’s sales grew b...
Bestway Cement acquires Mustehkam Cement
The Privatisation commission of Pakistan has privatized state owned Mustehkam Cement Limited (MCL) and Bestway Group of UK will take over the ownership, management and control o...
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