Lafarge H1 sales up 6.3 per cent on price increases
Lafarge SA reported a 6.3 per cent rise in first-half sales on Thursday, driven by higher prices for its products and strong volumes for construction materials, mainly in the Un...
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Ciments Français sales boosted by higher prices and...
Italcementi’s international subsidiary Ciments Français increased its first half turnover by an underlying 6.9 per cent to €1675m. In absolute terms the increase was 10.2 per c...
Ciments Français sales boosted by higher prices and Suez Cement
Italcementi’s international subsidiary Ciments Français increased its first half turnover by an underlying 6.9% to €1,675m. In absolute terms the increase was 10.2%, thanks to ...
UK Cement works to reduce emissions
Lafarge Cement UK, has recently announced significant investment plans to cut emissions from its Dunbar works in Scotland by installing a UK£20m gas scrubbing system. The new sy...
Holcim plant to limit use of slag
Holcim Inc has agreed to limit the amount of slag it uses from Asarco’s idled East Helena, Montana, plant — and will not use any more slag from a Canadian smelter — after ...
Court denies ex-TPI chief right to purchase shares
The Central Bankruptcy Court dismissed a petition by company founder Prachai Leophairatana demanding to purchase 249 million shares of TPI Polene Plc, the country’s third ...
UAE Union cement net profit climbs
The net profit of UAE Ras al-Khaimah cement manufacturer Union Cement climbed 37.8 per cent year-on-year to 86.3m UAE dirhams (US$23.5m) in the first half of 2005, it was report...
Ciments du Maroc to buy Suez Cement stake
The board of directors of Moroccan cement company Ciments du Maroc (majority owned by Italcementi) decided on July 22, 2005 to buy a 13.4 per cent stake worth 1.2 bln Moroccan d...
India Cements to issue GDRs
India Cements Ltd has decided to issue global depository receipts or other securities to raise up to US$115m. The proceeds of the global issue of equity are likely to be used to...
Strabag seeks site for cement plant in Hungary
Austrian construction holding Strabag is looking for a suitable site for a new cement works in Hungary in which Euro 106m will be invested, it was reported on July 26, 2005. Ac...
Cemento Melón to develop new limestone mine
Chilean cement company Cemento Melón will begin operating a new limestone mine called Cantera Ñilhue in the country’s central Region V, newspaper Diario Financiero reporte...
Strong demand drives Vulcan
Vulcan Materials Company today announced record second quarter net earnings of US$122m, as compared to US$88m. Net sales increased 21 percent from the prior year’s level, ...
Lafarge North America reports
Lafarge North America Inc the leading supplier of construction materials in the US and Canada, today reported second-quarter 2005 net income of US$142.9m. Operating income for t...
Argentina fines cement producers
Argentina’s Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna said the country’s competition bureau will fine all of the country’s cement producers for colluding on prices and ...
Catalonian cement demand at 1.574Mt
Cement demand in the Catalonia region, northeastern Spain, stood at 1.547Mt in the first half of 2005, a 1.72 per cent year-on-year decrease, the local cement makers’ asso...
Pavilion brings process control solutions to Turkey
Pavilion Technologies announced today that it has formed an alliance partnership with CIMES Elektronik (CIMES). The alliance provides cement manufacturers in Turkey with access ...
Sale of TPI shares await court approval
The planned e-auction of TPI Polene Plc’s 250 million shares may be derailed if the court approves Prachai Leophairatana’s latest attempt to regain control over the ...
Azores Cement Sales Down
Cement sales in Portugal’s autonomous region of the Azores Islands registered a 2.7 per cent year-on-year decrease to a total 27,382t in May 2005, data from the Azores reg...
Ciments Francais H1 sales up
French cement maker Ciments Francais posted first-half revenues of Euro 1.675bn up 10.2 per cent on the year, its parent company Italcementi said in a statement on Monday. Sale...
Florida Rock Industries third quarter results
Florida Rock Industries, has announced record net income of $45,878,000 or $.69 per diluted share for the third quarter of fiscal year 2005 versus $33,050,000 or $.50 per dilute...
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