Romanian cement market estimates
The Romanian cement market will remain in 2005 at the level registered last year, of Euro 300m, the incremental increase of the market being strictly related to the ROL - EUR ex...
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Steelmaker plans could affect longer-term rates
While European steelmakers are, one after another, sending warnings about their financial results for the year 2005, the Chinese steel and coal sectors are on the edge of a glob...
Export of Chinese cement
The total export of cement and cement clinker of the whole year out of China was 7Mt, a rise of 21.5 per cent on a year-on-year basis. The export mainly concentrated in North A...
GK Goh Keeps Sell on Lafarge Malayan
GK Goh Research keeps sell on Lafarge Malayan Cement due to price war. "The price war has intensified and the situation now is worse than the last price war in 1999," GK Goh says;
Saudi Arabia to cut cement import duties
Saudi Arabia will cut duties on cement imports to five per cent from 20 per cent to help meet rising domestic demand, Saudi media said on Tuesday. The lower duty will not be in...
Brazil: CCC makes large profits
The Brazilian cement maker Camargo Correa Cimentos (CCC) has registered a net profit of R$62.7m in the Q1 2005, a boom of 328.47 per cent over the R$15.2m recorded in same peri...
Erin Brockovich to launch probe
Legal investigator Erin Brockovich is considering suing industrial plants in Ellis County, Texas. The area, on the southern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth metro region, contains...
Conch Group invest in cement project in Guangxi
Conch Group headquartered in Hefei, capital of East China’s Anhui Province, signed an agreement with Beiliu City in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, under which, the grou...
Taiheiyo Cement year to March net profit down
Taiheiyo Cement Corp full year to March 2005 results: Revenue - 872.7 bln yen vs 879.5 bln. Operating profit - 48.2 bln yen vs 44.8 bln Current profit - 38.3 bln yen vs 35.1 bl...
Concrete consumption in Spain hits record
The consumption of concrete in Spain reached a record 82.35 million cu m in 2004, an 1.6 per cent year-on-year increase, according to data of Spanish Association of Concrete
Qatar cement shortages looming
Cement continues to be in short supply in Qatar hitting the construction industry. Nasser Al Mir, a member of the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry (QCCI), told Al Sharq ye...
Challenges to cement manufactures in Uganda
According to Mr Mbuvi Ngunze, Managing Director Hima Cement, one of the biggest power consumers in Uganda, electricity power tariff hikes have hit the manufacturing industry har...
IEEE/PCA conference opens in Kansas City
Edgar Buehler, Chairman of IEEE-IES today welcomed delegates to the opening of the 47th IEEE Cement Industry technical conference in Kansas City USA. With some 896 delegates att...
Australia’s James Hardie profit jumps on US sales
The Australian building products maker, dogged by a row over asbestos liabilities, said it expected strong US sales growth to continue in the coming year although the rate of gr...
Cement plant cited 32 times
The Texas Industries Inc cement plant was cited 32 times in less than 18 months by the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District.The violations occurred between April 2003 a...
Padang earthquake – no damage to plant
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.9 rattled Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Saturday, and residents fled their homes for higher ground fearing a possible tsunami, an offici...
Hazardous waste bill clears House, Senate
Passage of the hazardous waste bill by the Missouri Legislature didn’t create the stir that the new school funding formula did, but its impact will be felt in Northeast Mi...
DG Khan cement review
DG Khan Cement Company Limited (DGKCC) was established under the management control of State Cement Corporation of Pakistan Ltd (SCCP) in 1978. DGKCC started its commercial prod...
Qatar National will sell 2Mt in 2005
As Qatar’s construction sector still faces supply problems, Qatar’s top cement producer Qatar National Cement Co (QNCC) intends to make available some 2Mt of cement in the
Russian Antimonopoly Service launches investigation
The Russian Antimonopoly Service has launched the investigation of recent cement price growth. The Russian Antimonopoly Service is preparing an enquiry relating to Eurocement
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