Japan Ryukyu Cement posts US$4.5m parent net profit FY 2004
Japanese cement and mineral products maker Ryukyu Cement Co in Okinawa, southern Japan, posted a parent net profit of 489m Japanese yen (US$4.5m/€3.7m) for fiscal 2004/2005, end...
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HeidelbergCement’s Turkey Joint Venture Invests €100m
Turkey’s Akcansa, a joint venture of HeidelbergCement AG and Sabanci Holding, said it would invest €100m to increase clinker production capacity to 5.7Mt from 3.8Mt by the...
Chilean cement industry seen to register four per cent growth in 2005
Chilean cement industry is seen to register a growth of four per cent in 2005 in comparison with 2004, the general manager of the Chilean cement maker Polpaico, Oscar Parada.
Greek Titan Cement targets expansion, considers Turkish market
Greek cement maker Titan Cement considers entering the market of neighbouring Turkey as part of an expansion move, the company said.
Egyptian National Cement Co reports US$11.4m net profit July 2004-Mar 2005
Egyptian cement producer National Cement Company (NCC) posted a net profit of 66.4m Egyptian pounds ($US11.4m/€9.4m) for the first nine months of the fiscal 2004/2005, ending Ju...
Saudi Tabuk Cement Co, Qassim Cement Co plan joint plant
Saudi cement producers Tabuk Cement Company (TCC) and Qassim Cement Company (QCC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to carry out a feasibility study on a project ...
TXI, residents to try mediation Midlothian: Cement maker wants to ditch pollution controls
Texas Industries Inc., local environmental groups and Midlothian residents will meet with a mediator over the next 30 days to try to reach a compromise on the cement maker&rsquo...
Government to move BRPSE to bail out CCI
The Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India, proposes to move the Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises (BRPSE) to seek Rs886-crore loan-cum-interest w...
TPI likely to auction cement unit stake next week
Thai Petrochemical Industry is expected to sell its 30 per cent stake in Thailand cement maker TPI Polene by auction next week in a bid to raise US$250m, a member of TPI’s...
Cement powder of Ararat town causes illnesses
Today the Caucasian region ecological center organized in Ararat a conference with the theme “Environmental Protection For the Welfare of the Coming Generations and Steady Devel...
SIAM Cement: SCC’s Cement Investment in Cambodia
The Board of Directors of The Siam Cement Plc (SCC) has approved a 3200 MB cement investment in Cambodia, whereby SCC will hold a major stake in the venture, while a local inves...
Evrocement Group cuts costs
Evrocement Group will stop using intermediary sale companies and reinvest the saved funds into modernisation.
Eurocement Group to build two cement mills which cost US$450m
Eurocement Group JSC expects to build two cement mills in the near future, President of the Company Mikhail Skorokhod said. According to him, the building companies will face de...
Amran Cement production to be increased soon
Amran Cement Factory will increase its production from 611,715t to 750.000tpa the factory director said Tuesday. Noman Doweid said in a press statement said that the cost of the
Russian Cement Industry needs US$5bn in Investment by 2010
Russian cement industry investment requirements of up to US$5bn for the rest of this decade were revealed this week by Michael Skhorohod, President of Eurocement Group, during t...
Carpatcement appeals over Romanian cartel fine
Carpatcement, a unit of Germany’s HeidelbergCement will ask a local court to cancel an €8.6m fine by Romania’s competition watchdog for price fixing, the company sai...
Sinoma wins US$78.87m cement plant bid
Sinoma International Engineering Co said it has signed a 652.8m yuan (US$78.87m) contract to build a cement production line for Guochan Industrial (Fujian) Cement Co Ltd.
Vietnam to import 4.5Mt of clinker this year
Vietnam will this year have to import some 4.5Mt of clinker for cement production, the same amount as last year, the country’s biggest cement producer said on Wednesday.
Price of cement to rise in Kabul
Cement prices in the Afghanistan capital Kabul have been on the rise following the closure of the under-construction Mahipar Road linking the city with Torkham.
China to build cement factory in western Iran
Chinese firm CNEEC signed a contact here Wednesday to build a cement production factory in the Western city of Hamedan.
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