SCCC shifts main focus as costs rise
To maintain its operating margin at a time of high energy prices, Siam City Cement Plc (SCCC), Thailand’s second largest cement maker, part-owned by Holcim, is putting more focu...
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Lafarge’s management changes
Was the replacement of Bernard Kasriel as chief executive of Lafarge from next January (when he will be only 59 years of age) by Bruno Lafont, brought forward as a result of the...
Mexico’s Cemex set to price $1.5 billion ADR offer
Mexico’s Cemex will fix the price of a share offer worth around $1.5 billion after the stock market closes on Tuesday. Cemex plans to sell 27 million of its American Dep...
Canacem demands tax-free cement exports to US
Mexican cement exports to the United States should be tax-free, National Chamber of Cement (Canacem) Adviser Rodolfo Cruz Miramontes said. Indeed, the official stated the 10
Saudi demands to examine cement imports
An Al-Riyadh newspaper quoted a notice published in early September 2005 by the white Portland cement manufacturers in Saudi Arabia which included a demand that the Industry and...
Baltsem Increases Cement Production
The Ukrainian Baltsem plant (Balakliia, Kharkiv region), one of the three major regional cement producers, increased cement production by 27.6 per cent or 55,100t compared with
CCoP approves highest bids
The Pakistan Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCoP), chaired by Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz, approved here on Monday the highest bids received for Mustehkam Cement Ltd (MCL)
Cement production capacity to reach 70Mt
Iran’s cement production capacity will reach 70Mt by the end of the 4th Socio-economic and Cultural Development Plan (2010), said an official at the Ministry of Industries and M...
Higher freights expected this winter
By the end of the week, while dry bulk markets have started marking a pause in the quite strong rise they’ve enjoyed over the last three weeks, players prepare themselves...
Heidelberg Cement’s Bosnian unit to invest
Tvornica Cementa Kakanj (TCK), a Bosnian cement plant owned by German HeidelbergCement, said on Monday it would invest some 100 million marka ($61.7m) in technology upgrades and...
Danish Unicon, Frode Laursen set up company
Danish concrete company Unicon A/S and Danish transport and logistics company Frode Laursen A/S set up a joint company, Danish transport and logistics services provider Skancon ...
Egypt’s Orascom to build cement factory in Indonesia
Industry Minister Andung Nitimihardja said Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries plans to build a cement plant in Indonesia with an annual capacity of 2.5Mt. The project...
Holcim Maroc H1 2005 net profit up
Holcim Maroc, a subsidiary of Swiss cement maker Holcim, posted a consolidated net profit of 169 mln Moroccan dirhams ($18.6m) for the first half of 2005, up by 2.2 per cent yea...
Mexican GCC buys stake in top Bolivian cement firm
Mexican cement maker Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua has bought a 46.57 percent stake in Bolivia’s top cement maker for $58.2m, the company said on Monday. Under the terms of
Idaho department of environmental quality seeks Ash Grove comment
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is seeking public comment on a proposed permit to construct and draft Tier I air quality operating permit for the Ash Grove C...
Boral upgrades and builds on Oracle platform
Boral has revamped its information technology department, rolling its technical operations into an existing shared services centre that does much of the company’s back-off...
Lafarge names Bruno Lafont as new CEO
Lafarge said on Tuesday that Bruno Lafont, currently group chief operating officer, would become its new chief executive from January 1. Lafont, who has spent all his career at...
TPI Polene share bid draws only one bid
Only one bid was accepted on Tuesday in the auction of a 249-million-share block of TPI Polene, made by a Thai construction company offering just 17 baht per share, the Bangkook...
Tasek, Saigon Cement abort joint-venture plan
Tasek Corp Bhd, one of Malaysia’s four large cement producing groups, and Saigon Cement Joint Stock Co have aborted their plan to form a joint venture company to operate a cemen...
CFTZ’s second cement plant to come on-stream shortly
Construction works aimed at building the second cement producing plant began in Iran’s Chabahar Free Trade Zone (CFTZ). The plant projected to come on-stream within the next 10 ...
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