Alarm bells ring over cement plan
Local concern is growing about the impact of a proposed cement works expansion. Following a series of public exhibitions of plans by Cemex, owners of the Barrington quarry and w...
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Oskolcement and Belgorod Cement report
In January - September 2005 Oskolcement (the Belgorod region) made 2.3Mt of cement, having exceeded the figures posted in the same period 2004 by 0.9 per cent. Belgorod
Dalmacijacement profit down
Croatian cement maker Dalmacijacement-RMC Group, owned by Mexico’s Cemex S.A., said on Monday its nine-months net profit fell by 19.5 per cent on the year to 111.4 million...
OCL India: net profit climbs
In the first half of 2005-06, OCL net profit stood at Rs 22.19 lakh as against Rs 15.68 lakh while the turnover stood at Rs 320.26 crore as against Rs 265.59 crore during the same
French Vicat Jan-Sept 2005 turnover
French building materials group Vicat SA posted a Euro 1.35bn turnover for the first nine months of 2005, up 10 per cent year-on-year. The group reported sales of Euro 482.5m for
Devcon completes sale
Devcon International Corp has announced that it and its wholly owned subsidiary, VI Cement & Building Products, Inc., completed the sale of its US Virgin Islands material opera...
Semen Gresik to build new cement factory
State-owned cement maker PT Semen Gresik in East Java will soon start to build a new cement factory with an annual capacity of 2.5Mta. The new plant is needed to meet the needs...
Cimpor sells Semapa stake
Portuguese cement company Cimpor Cimentos De Portugal said Monday it has sold its remaining 20 per cent stake in rival Semapa for EUR144m. Cimpor said it sold the 23.7 million ...
Nepalese cement plant closes down
Hetauda [south central Nepal], 28 October: The country’s first cement plant has been closed for the past month and because of the lack of raw materials needed to produce c...
Madras Cement net up
Madras Cements has posted a 43.8 per cent jump in net profit, at Rs 18.8 crore for the quarter ended September 30, ’05, compared with Rs 13.1 crore in the corresponding pe...
Cement sales in Vietnam
The Vietnam Cement Association has reported a strong increase in cement sales through Jan-Oct., a trend expected to continue over the two last months of this year.
UAE Sharjah Cement profits up
UAE cement producer Sharjah Cement and Industrial Development Company posted a net profit of 220.161 mln UAE dirhams (US$60m) for the first nine months of 2005, up from
Repairs in Colorado gives rise to shortages
As recently as November 2004, Colorado was listed by industry researchers at the Portland Cement Association as not experiencing the shortage that was affecting 35 other states....
Mediobanca Sells Stake in French Ciments Francais
Italian investment bank Mediobanca SpA has sold it stake in French cement maker Ciments Francais SA, a subsidiary of Italian cement group Italcementi, it was reported on October...
Cement production to hit 10Mt this year
Colombia’s cement sales in the first nine months of the year were 34 per cent higher than in the same period of last year and the figures indicate that production will rea...
Polpaico posts US$19m earnings
Chilean cement producer Cemento Polpaico posted a consolidated 10.3bn-peso (US$19m) net profit during January-September this year, down 9.9 per cent compared to the same year-ag...
Readymix chief quits
THE CEO of the Irish Readymix plc Joe Doyleis parting company with the concrete group in a move some think will hasten an offer to buy out the minority shareholders (37.4pc). C...
Rinker obtains permit for new line
The Rinker Group says it has started detailed plant engineering after receiving all necessary permits for the construction of a new cement line in central Florida in the United ...
Mountain Cement Settles Environmental Suit
The Mountain Cement Company in Laramie has agreed to put a filter on one of its kilns as part of a lawsuit settlement with environmental groups. The cement company, the Sierra C...
Colombian Cement, Clinker Exports
Colombian exports of cement and clinker stood at US$83m in the third quarter of 2005, up 13 per cent year-on-year, it was reported on October 26, 2005. Cement and clinker expor...
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