Colombia’s Argos buys US cement companies
Colombian cement company Cemento Argos has bought U.S. concrete makers Southern Star and Concrete Express for a total $257.5m in the biggest ever investment in the United States...
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Vangvieng cement factory: the symbol of Lao-China co-operation
Vientiane(KPL 03 Oct 2005)Lao and China is neighboring countries which is shared by more than 100 km of a big forests and stream. The people of Laos and China has a traditional...
Birla cement sales down 4.1%
India’s Aditya Birla Group said the combined cement sales of two companies in the group, Grasim Industries Ltd and Ultratech Cement Ltd, in September fell 4.1 per cent on ...
Taiwan’s Asia Cement reports 18.50 mln twd damage from Typhoon Longwang
Asia Cement Corp said its Hualien plant in eastern Taiwan suffered an estimated TWD18.50m in damages caused by Typhoon Longwang, which swept across the island yesterday.
Devcon completes sale of U.S. Virgin Island Materials operations for US$13.3m
Devcon International Corp. (DEVC) announces that on September 30, 2005, it and its wholly owned subsidiary, V.I. Cement & Building Products, Inc, completed the sale of its U.S. ...
PM wants to help sole local cement producer, Lithuania
Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas has said that the government should consider ways to assist Akmenes Cementas (Akmene Cement), the only Lithuanian cement manufacturer, in expa...
Cement industry expected to grow 10 per cent, Turkey
Cement industry is expected to grow 10 per cent by the end of this year, when compared with the previous year, Ismail Erkovan, the Director General of Adana Cement Industry, sai...
Cement group urges posting of retail prices, Philippines
The Cement Manufacturers Association of the Philippines, Inc has requested its members to post suggested retail prices in areas where there are concerns about pricing.
Cement prices likely to increase next year, Vietnam
The domestic market watch department has recently asked the Ministry of Construction and the Cement Association to set up a plan for coping with upward pressures on cement price...
Akcansa, Cimsa, Sanko plan to bid for Uzan plants, Turkey
Cement producers Akcansa Cimento, Cimsa Cimento announced in separate statements sent to the ISE that they are interested in the cement plants, previously owned by the Uzan grou...
Thirty staff are axed at Castle
Almost a third of the workforce at Clitheroe’s Castle Cement will go as the firm struggles to come to terms with its "most intense competition for many years."
Growing demand blamed for cement price hikes
A senior Ministry of Industries and Mines official said that growing international demand and high oil prices are responsible for the recent hikes in cement price, rejecting rep...
Syria, China to build cement factory
A Chinese public company for construction inked on Thursday a memo of understanding in Beijing with a Syrian private company for development to build a black cement factory near...
Cement shortage looms in eastern Africa
An acute shortage of cement is looming in eastern Africa following the return of peace in Sudan and the easy calm in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has sparked a vi...
Again Job Cuts at Dutch ENCI
Dutch cement factory ENCI will be affected again by job cuts, the parent company, German cement producer HeidelbergCement AG, said on September 29, 2005.
Jurong Cement warns of H1 to September losses
Jurong Cement Ltd said it expects to report losses in its first half to September results, citing operational difficulties in China. It said Beijing’s efforts to cool t...
Eurocement Group mills make 15Mt of cement in 8M2005
From January through August 2005, mills incorporated in the Eurocement Group holding company made 15Mt of cement. The group’s Ukrainian businesses accounted for over 1.8Mt
Large cement project operational in Heilongjiang
The first phase project of Binzhou Cement Company, a super-large cement producer in Northeastern China’ s Heilongjiang Province, was completed and put into production on Septemb...
Camargo Correa planning for good news over Loma Negra
Whilst the group awaits the Comision Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia of Argentina’s decision over the purchase of cement firm Loma Negra for US$1.025bn,
Cement prices up 8-10 per cent
The UAE Contractors Association has warned cement companies that it will take action if prices are raised beyond the recent 8-10 per cent rises. Officials told Gulf News that some
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