Rinker looks good with TXI in the frame
Rinker Group’s already bullish outlook in the United States was given a major boost on the weekend after the US Senate passed a US$286.5 billion six-year highway construct...
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German cement leaders to face fixing claims
Three cement makers, Lafarge, Dyckerhoff and Readymix face damage claims by 28 corporate customers amounting to a total of Euro 140m for alleged price fixing, Financial Times De...
Eurocement Group production data
Factories belonging to the Eurocement Group produced 9.8Mt of cement in 1H2005, including 1.2Mt in the Ukraine, the holding’s press service reported today.
Indocement 1H improvements
Indonesia’s cement maker PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa said Friday it swung to a first half net profit due to an increase in revenue and a decline in foreign exchange los...
China Resources Cement figures down
China Resources Cement Holdings Ltd said Friday it expects its first-half earnings this year to be "substantially worse" than in the year-earlier period because of high coal pri...
Cementir’s first half results boosted by acquisitions
First half turnover at Cementir rose by 166.7 per cent to €402.9m, thanks to last October’s acquisitions of Aalborg Portland Cement and Unicon. The EBITDA advanced by 113...
Lafarge’s first half cement volumes slightly ahead
Lafarge Group turnover rose by 6.3 per cent to €7,220m in the first half of the year, of which cement contributed €3,797m, an increase of 6.9 per cent. Cement deliveries were 0...
TCL obtains financing for Caribbean expansion
The TCL Group is currently strengthening the cement sector of its business by expanding capacity and optimising its plants and has embarked on setting up cement terminals region...
Freight market looks to China - again
The dry bulk markets were really waiting for good news for quite some time now and the disconnection between the Yuan and the dollar decided last week, despite its limited scope...
US in plans to bypass Kyoto protocol
The United States and Australia have been working in secret for 12 months on an alternative to the Kyoto protocol and will reveal today a joint pact with China, India and South ...
Offers invited for Javedan Cement sell-off
The Pakistan Privatisation Commission (PC) has invited Expressions of Interest (EoI) from interested parties to privatise Javedan Cement Limited (JCL) on an ’As is where i...
Cement consumption in Kazakhstan rises
Cement consumption in Kazakhstan grew 26.6 per cent in the first half of the year from the same period last year to reach 2.06Mt, a source at Vostok-Cement told Interfax. The r...
Chinese cement industry data
Despite the austerity measures brought by the Chinese government to control speculation property trading activities, sales revenue of Anhui Conch Cement Group which is the holdi...
Gas pipeline given OK in Sugar Creek
Methane from a closed Sugar Creek landfill now will help power the Lafarge Corp cement operation. The Sugar Creek Board of Aldermen approved an ordinance Monday night allowing ...
Oman’s Raysut Cement H1 profit rise
Oman’s Raysut Cement reported a 49 per cent increase in first-half net profit to 5.02 million rials (US$12.9m), as it cranked up output to feed a construction boom in the ...
Manuel Fino buys 3.3 per cent of Cimpor
Portuguese entrepreneur Manuel Fino has boosted his stake in the share capital of local cement producer Cimpor-Cimentos de Portugal SGPS by 3.3 per cent, it was reported on
Why cement Prices are high – Tsunami effect
Managing Director of Ashaka Cement Company of Nigeria (AshakaCem Plc), Engineer Mohammed Mustapha Daggash, yesterday listed factors that have contributed to the recent hike in t...
Cementos Pacasmayo reports H1 profits dip
Peruvian cement company Cementos Pacasmayo posted a 30.1m-sol (US$9.24m) net profit for the first half of 2005, down slightly on the 31.1mn-sol figure from the same period last ...
Colombia’s Argos H1 net nearly doubles on sales
Colombia’s biggest cement-manufacturing group, Cemento Argos , almost doubled net profits in the first half of the year compared to the same period of 2004 due to higher i...
Siam Cement Reports significant rise in net profit
Siam Cement PCL, Thailand’s dominant industrial conglomerate, said its second-quarter net profit jumped 13 per cent from a year earlier on higher petrochemical and cement ...
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