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Lafarge CEO sees further cement recovery, improved margins vs energy costs Lafarge CEO Bernard Kasriel predicted the modest recovery in cement and granulate volumes seen in th...
Heidelberg Cement, the German cement group, has set up a joint venture in China together with Chinese competitor Tangshan Jidong Cement, which will produce and distribute ceme...
The president of Cementos de Chihuahua, Federico Terrazas, said that the new R&D centre would double the innovation and R&D investments of the cement maker.
French cement producer Ciments Francais SA, a subsidiary of Italian cement group Italcementi, is not excluding the possibility to expand its foreign activities through acquisi...
In August, cement production fell by 3.7% to 1,328,000t compared with July.
Madras Cements Ltd (MCL) has commissioned a 38MW (MW) capacity captive thermal power plant at its Alathiyur unit in Tamil Nadu. It is investing Rs110 crore in expanding captive ...
UAE Dubai’s state-owned company Dubai Holding and Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries have announced the establishment of a joint project, the Emirates Cement ...
PT Semen Gresik said its cement sales in the first eight months of this year rose 5% on year to 10.66Mt, driven by an increase in domestic sales.
HeidelbergCement AG said it will cut about 1,100 administrative jobs across Europe in a bid to reduce costs by about EUR50m ($71m) annually and streamline its organisation.
FLSmidth has sold its 7.5 percent stake in Egypt’s Sinai Cement Company for around 100 million Danish crowns (US$16.4m), the Danish company said.
The European Commission cleared Germany’s Heidelberg Cement) to take a 50% share of Dutch cement company De Hoop Terneuzen BV’s Belgian subsidiary, Mermans Beton.
Italcementi ended the first half of 2005 with a net profit of EUR213.3m down 2.2% compared to the same period of 2004.
It is a coincidence that the Privatisation Commission (PC) has received the same offer for Javedan Cement Limited (JCL) as was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Privatisation...
British cement group Blue Circle, a subsidiary of Lafarge, has set up a subsidiary in Argentina.
activity in recent years, are confident the future of the industry may be bright. The construction sector has fallen victim to Zimbabwe’s economic hardships, dramatis...
Cement prices hardened further last month across the country except in a few markets such as Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Hyderabad.
The Privatisation Commission (PC) is holding a bidding to privatise Mustehkam Cement Limited (MCL) through the sale of 85.29 per cent shares held by the holding company,
Taiwan Cement Corp expects to increase its gross margin to 11% this year from 9 per cent in 2004 due to firming export prices, the Commercial Times reported.
Holcim plans to build a HUF62bn (US$310.1m) plant in Hungary, Slovakia or Romania, the company said in a statement released in Budapest on Wednesday.
Italcementi SpA’s first half EBITDA due on Friday is expected to be broadly flat, with the first-time inclusion of its Egypt acquisition Suez Cement, offsetting weak Italy...
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