New cement company for Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Trade and Industry has approved the establishment of a 550 mln Saudi riyal (US$146.7m) cement company, it was reported on July 12, 2005. The co...
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Cement plant agrees to air pollution fine
Lehigh Cement has reached the settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency over emissions from two kilns, where tests in December 2003 found one kiln releasing 2.84 pound...
China’s output of cement in May 2005
China produced 92,856,100t of cement in May 2005. The output in January-May reached 359,218,100t, up 6.1 per cent year on year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. ...
Ras al Khaimah cement company posts profit increase
According to local reports the Ras Al Khaimah Cement Company posted Dh 54.5 million net profits in the first half of the current year compared to Dh 23.1 million of the same per...
Siam Cement gives financial donations
Mr Chumpol NaLamlieng, President of The Siam Cement Public Company Limited, presided over the presentation ceremony of the financial donation to 40 foundations and charitable or...
Zuari Cements workers plan protest
Contractual workers of Zuari Cements Ltd at Yerraguntla will obstruct the Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s convoy during his proposed visit to the district on July ...
Rinker points to US growth and price hikes
Shares of Rinker Group Ltd., Australia’s largest building materials maker, had their biggest gain in a year after the company said first-quarter profit surged and increase...
Slag use at cement plant raises more air concerns
The Holcim Trident cement plant near Three Forks, Montana in the US is drawing more criticism for its use of industrial waste, this time slag imported from a Canadian lead and z...
Foundation sets awards for sustainable construction
Late last year in Zurich, Switzerland, the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction invited architects, engineers and other specialists in the construction industry to joi...
CO2 trading worth more than cement
European cement producers ’could make more from carbon trading than from exports’ In essence, producers could make more cash by reducing exports and trading surplus...
Holcim Shutdown ’No Threat to Supply’
The planned shutdown of a cement production line by Holcim South Africa, at the end of the year was unlikely to affect supply in Gauteng, the group said yesterday. The disclosu...
Eurocem has clear-out at Baltsem
The shareholders of the Baltsem plant (Balakliia, Kharkiv region), one of the three major cement producers in Ukraine, abolished the plant’s board of directors at a meetin...
Industry misinformed about Mexican cement antidumping
Joe Dorn, a Washington-based attorney representing the Southern Tier Cement Committee accuses Mexicans of double standards: "The bottom line is, Cemex cannot have it both ways,"...
Texas Industries 4Q Net rises
Texas Industries Inc.’s (TXI) fourth-quarter net income rose nearly 11 per cent on strong results from its cement business. In a press release Wednesday, the company poste...
Ghacem keeps on giving
The Ghacem Cement Foundation yesterday presented to 29 beneficiaries 30,000 bags of Portland cement worth C1.3 billion for the first half of the year. Addressing the beneficiari...
James Hardie explain Chile exit
The Australian firm James Hardie’s surprising departure from the Chilean fibre-cement sector - it has sold its assets to Compania Industrial El Volcan - linked to the Matt...
Bank signs with Pioneer Cement
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Bank of Punjab (BoP) and Pioneer Cement Limited, Pakistan, under which the bank would act as the company’s main ...
ACC sells refractory units
As part of its strategic plan to exit non-cement businesses, ACC on Wednesday reached an agreement with ICICI Venture Funds to sell off its refractory business in what is possib...
Freights: down but certainly not out
While dry bulk freight markets are not clearly showing the way for a hard or a soft landing, particularly this week with strong divergences between the Capes and the smaller siz...
New order from Bolu Cimento,Turkey
Bolu Cimento Sanayii A.S., Turkey, member of the OYAK-Group, has awarded KHD Humboldt Wedag the contract for a modification of its clinker grinding plant with the aim to: repl...
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