Lafarge sets price guidance on euro bond -banker
Lafarge has set price guidance on its planned EUR500m (US$586.9m) bond due March 2016, a banker familiar with the deal said on Wednesday. The bond will be priced later this wee...
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PPC Audited preliminary report
The growth in the South African economy and continued high demand in both the residential and non-residential building sectors boosted cement volumes to record levels. This, tog...
Lafarge plans EUR500m March 2016 bond
Lafarge plans to sell a EUR500m bond due March 2016 this week, an official at one of the banks managing the sale said on Tuesday. BNP Paribas, Calyon, HSBC and RBS are managing ...
Pushka Decides To Buy Out 0.83% Of Its Stocks
The supervisory council of the Kramatorsk-based cement plant Pushka (Donetsk region) at its October 25 meeting decided to buy out 0.827% of its stocks. According to the statemen...
Holcim nine-month results beat forecasts on robust internal growth
Holcim Ltd said net profit for the first nine months rose to SwFr1.384bn from SwFr875m a year earlier, beating forecasts on robust internal growth, sales gains and cost savings,...
Lafarge buys out another importer
Lafarge has further consolidated its leading position in the British cement market, albeit in a small way, by acquiring the Kent-based importer The Port Land Cement Company from...
Thai Siam City Cement Q3 net down on higher cost
Siam City Cement (SCCC), Thailand’s second-biggest cement maker, reported a 7 percent fall in third-quarter net profit on Wednesday due to higher fuel and electricity prices.
Egyptian white cement output at 2.724Mt
Egypt’s white cement output stood at 2.724Mt in March 2005, up from 2.303Mt in February 2005, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said in a report.
NCB proposes cement projects for North East
The government-owned National Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCB) has studied the potential for setting up of new cement projects in the North Eastern states, Indust...
New production line of Lafarge Cement operational in Chongqing
The second new-process production line of the Chongqing Lafarge Cement Co Ltd started operation in Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality on November 8.
Etex to take over Creaton
The Brussels-based building materials group Etex has agreed to acquire the privately held voting capital in Creaton, Germany’s leading clay tile producer, subject to the c...
Saudi Arabian Cement net profit down
Saudi cement producer Arabian Cement Company posted a net profit of SAR252m (US$67.2m) for the first nine months of 2005, down 3.5 per cent YoY. The fall came despite
UAE’s Cement Producers Combined Net Profit Up 102%
The combined net profit of the eight cement and building materials companies listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) soared 102 per cent YoY to AED1.31bn (US$356.7m) in the f...
Cementos Portland net attributable profit up
Spanish cement maker Cementos Portland Valderribas S.A. (Cementos Portland) posted a EUR103m (US$121.7m) net attributable profit for the first nine months of 2005, up 11 per cen...
Plant construction announced
The A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper quoted a notice published in early October 2005 announcing the building of a cement-making factory. The contract for this was signed between the ...
Lebanon sales
According to Assafir newspaper (November 7, 2005), a recently publicized report by the Association of Banks in Lebanon estimated at that 299,000t of cement was delivered in July
Cement execs working to finalise Pueblo plan
A delegation of GCC Rio Grande executives will meet with county commissioners today.
Jaypee may resume Bhutan cement project
The Jaypee Group has said it is interested to resume construction of the Dangsum Cement Plant in Bhutan with a capacity of 500,000tpa. India had inked an agreement with Bhutan i...
HeidelbergCement Q3 net profit up, beats forecast
HeidelbergCement reported a 60 per cent rise in third-quarter net profit on Tuesday, boosted by a pick-up in its key North American and Indonesian markets.
Italcementi begins to see Egyptian benefits
Italcementi’s cement shipments reached 41.5Mt in the first nine months of the year, an underlying increase of 1.7% and an absolute advance of 13.8% as the group expanded, ...
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