New order for FCB.Ciment, Vietnam
FCB.Ciment, well-known by the cement manufacturers in Vietnam as the supplier of the 4,000 tpd Hoang Mai cement plant in Nghe Anh province, successfully commissioned in 2002 (th...
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New orders for FLSmidth
FLSmidth has signed an approximately USD 210m contract for the supply of a new cement plant to privately-owned United Cement Company of Nigeria Ltd. (UNICEM).
Kuwait Cement 2004 net profit falls to $64.7m
The net profit of Kuwaiti cement maker Kuwait Cement Company fell to 18.89m Kuwaiti dinars (US$64.7m) in 2004 from 19.34m dinars (US$66.3m) in 2003.
Siam City Cement mulls stake in ready-mixed concrete co, Thailand
Siam City Cement PCL (SCCC.TH), Thailand’s second-largest cement producer, is considering acquiring a stake in a ready-mixed concrete company, in a move to boost its marke...
Argos 2004 profit up 20 per cent, Colombia
Colombia’s biggest cement group, Cemento Argos, reported a 20 per cent rise in net profits in 2004.
Strike at Dutch ENCI ends
The strike of the employees of Dutch cement factory ENCI in Maastricht, Rotterdam and IJmuiden has ended after an agreement between the management and the trade unions on the pl...
Butra Heidelberg Cement defends price hike, Brunei
Butra Heidelberg Cement (BHC) Sdn Bhd, the sole producer of cement in the country, defended the impending price hike of cement which was the first in eight years.
Holcim Maroc Settat Unit Operational June 2007
Holcim Maroc, a subsidiary of Holcim Ltd, will start operating its production unit near Settat, northwestern Morocco, as of June 2007.
Production up 12.2% in 2004 to 1.28Mt, Bolivia
Bolivian cement production increased 12% in 2004 to 1.28Mt compared to the year before, according to the country’s national statistics institute (INE).
Jan consumption down 4.2% YoY, Indonesia
Domestic cement consumption in January totalled 2.24Mt, down 4.1 per cent from 2.34Mt a year earlier, led by falling consumption in Central Java, the Indonesian Cement Associat...
Cement corporation vows no price increases in 2005, Vietnam
The Viet Nam Cement Corporation will not increase cement prices this year in an effort to maintain market stability for the building material, said General Director Nguyen Van H...
HeidelbergCement’s 2004 turnover beats forecast
HeidelbergCement (HEIG.DE) reported on Tuesday an 8.8 percent rise in 2004 turnover thanks to higher cement prices and full consolidation of Indonesian unit Indocement.
Cement prices would be higher sans safeguards, Philippines
The Cement Manufacturing Association of the Philippines (CeMAP) said that had it not requested the continued imposition of safeguard duty against imported cement, prices would h...
HeidelbergCement to create its own raw material base, Ukraine
HeidelbergCement intends to create its own raw material base for Kryvyi Rih Cement (Dnipropetrovsk region) and Dniprotsement (Dnipropetrovsk region), its two Ukrainian divisions...
Cement market develops faster than economy , Romania
The cement market in Romania saw a record high growth pace since the entrance on the market of three strategic investors: Lafarge, Holcim and HeidelbergCement, according to loca...
Private sector, housing to drive cement market, Peru
The private sector and housing sector will drive Peru’s cement market in the long-term, according to a report from local bank Banco Wiese Sudameris (BWS).
Hanson set to increase deal-flow as industry consolidation gathers pace , UK
Hanson PLC’s full year results will be viewed with more than the usual interest by investors next Thursday following a number of high profile takeovers in the sector.
Outlook: Lafarge FY profits to easily meet targets, France
Lafarge SA, the world’s largest cement producer, will report full year net profit of EUR827-880m on Thursday morning, up from EUR728m the previous year, as the improved ec...
Anhui Conch: favoured stock says Citigroup
Anhui Conch Cement, China’s biggest cement maker, is among stocks favoured by a senior Citigroup analyst, because of increasing construction in the world’s fastest-g...
CCL says new cement is cheaper, more environmentally friendly
Carib Cement has begun production of a newly formulated cement, that the firm says is stronger, more environment friendly, and cheaper to produce than the conventional
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