Senator calls for boycott of CRH
Building firm CRH has criticised Irish Senator Terry Leyden for comments he made in the Seanad calling for shareholders to withdraw their investment in the company due to its in...
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Dr Pharoan visits Algeria
The Algerian cement industry investments promotion company reportedly signed on July 17 a contract with the Saudi "Pharaon Commercial Investment Group Limited" regarding the pur...
Ciments Francais considers TPIPL stake
Bangkok Bank PCL, Thailand’s largest commercial bank, is teaming up with France’s Ciments Francais to bid for a stake in TPI Polene PCL Krungthep Turakij newspaper r...
Eurocement to build new plant
Russia’s holding Eurocement Group plans to build a cement plant in Russia’s Voronezh Region, Irina Plotnikova, the spokeswoman for the regional governor told Prime-T...
Vietnamese cement demand to rise
The Ministry of Construction has forecasted that cement demand in Vietnam in the remaining months of this year will rise by 10 per cent to more than 15Mt. The total demand this ...
Turkish Kurtalan Cimento sees improved turnover
Turkish cement producer Kurtalan Cimento expects a turnover of 75m new Turkish lira (Euro 46.8m) for 2005, compared to 60 mln lira (Euro 37.4m) in 2004, it was reported on June ...
New Lorry Fleet For Lafarge Cement
Lafarge Cement UK has invested more than £7m in a new lorry fleet, leading to quieter, safer, more environmentally-friendly transportation of its famous Blue Circle brand of cem...
Ultratech shifts export focus, prefers cement to clinker
As part of the strategy to revive the fortunes of Ultratech Cement and narrow the ’performance gap’ with its parent, Grasim Industries, the Aditya Birla group compan...
Cement firm’s dump pollutes ground water
Ground water is being contaminated from an illegal 170,000t dump on CRH lands at Blessington, Co Wicklow, the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed yesterday. Last week, th...
Siam Cement to post flat Q2
Siam Cement (SCC) Thailand, is set to report flat quarterly earnings from a year ago but a 20 per cent slump from the previous quarter on softer petrochemical prices and high fu...
Cement Consumption in Spain up again
The cement consumption in Spain expanded 5.1 per cent year-on-year in the first half 2005 to 25.19Mt, the Spanish cement makers association Oficemen said on July 19, 2005. In J...
Akmenes Cementas H1
Akmenes Cementas, Lithuania’s only producer of cement, earned 2.7 per cent more income in the first six months of this year than it did the year ago - 47.2m litas (EUR 13....
Nuh Cimento to raise annual exports to $100m
Turkish cement and clinker producer Nuh Cimento will increase its annual exports to between $85m and $100m from the current $30m, following the launch of its third clinker produ...
Poland’s cement and clinker production falls YoY
Polish cement companies produced 49.39Mt of cement and 36.36Mt of clinker in the first half of 2005, a fall from first half of 2004, an SPC report released on July 13 stated. T...
Tokyo Cement invest heavily on the Company’s Infrastructure
One of the leading cement manufacturing, importing and distribution companies in Sri Lanka - Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) Ltd has recorded a consolidated turnover of Rs 6bn for ...
Cementos del Caribe to hold merger meeting with shareholders
Colombian cement company Cementos del Caribe has called a July 29 meeting for stockholders to approve its merger with seven other cement companies, according to local news repor...
Shui On to expand cement business by acquisition
Shui On Construction and Materials Ltd. announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2005. The net profits of the group reached HK$483m, an increase of 2.27 times. T...
Andhra Cement to retire loans
Andhra Cement, Calcuttam India will restructure its high-cost debt in the next three months. Only then will the board decide whether to sell the company or retain it and expand ...
Peru’s June cement sales rise
Peru’s overall cement sales in June rose 7.1 per cent to 385,900t from the 360,311t sold in the same month a year before, as the economy continued to expand, the National ...
Sinoma wins cement contract in Saudi Arabia
Sinoma International Engineering Co Ltd said its CBMI Construction Co Ltd unit has won a US$167.5m contract to design and build a cement production plant in Saudi Arabia. The Sh...
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