Cemex announces Mexican price rise
The average price of cement in Mexico will increase five per cent effective immediately, newspaper El Norte quoted officials from cement maker Cemex as saying. The raise comes ...
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Lafarge bids for Himachal plant
Lafarge has bid for a Rs.6-billion ($120m) cement plant in Himachal Pradesh. Lafarge, which has submitted a proposal to set up a two-million-tonne plant by exploiting the limest...
Worker killed in mill unit
A 19-year-old man was killed while working at Portland Cement Factory in Makata industrial area in Blantyre last week after being crushed by machinery. Steven Smart from Dambo V...
Cement dispute settled
The long-simmering dispute between the West End Development Corporation (Wedco) and the Bermuda Cement Company (BCC) has ended with an agreement. Wedco chairman Lt. Col David B...
Cement plant demolition goes on
Two-story-high grey rubble piles now lay where Calaveras Cement Company buildings once stood along Pool Station Road near San Andreas.
Narotam Sekhsaria in focus
Some 24 years ago, Narotam Satyanarayan Sekhsaria, a 33-year-old cotton trader from Gujarat left the family-run business to try his hand in the cement sector. here was a stable ...
Councils asked to fund environmental monitoring
UK town and community councils are being asked to fund independent environmental checks around Castle Cement‘s works at Padeswood. Castle Cement Liaison Committee, which campaig...
Indian cement output up in December
Indian cement production recorded 8.54 per cent growth to 10.93Mt in December 2004 over 10.07Mt registered in the same month of the previous year. Despatches increased 8.84 per...
Akcansa plans acquisitions
Mehmet Gocmen, general manager of Akcansa, said that the company planned acquisitions of cement companies in Iraq in the long run. However, the privatisation of the companies wo...
Union Cement to raise output
The new clinker production facility of the UAE Ras al-Khaimah cement manufacturer Union Cement is to raise the company’s annual clinker output to some 4.5Mt of clinker fro...
Votorantim Cimentos invests US$220m
Votorantim Cimentos is dedicating US$220m investments to improve the logistic area in 2005, US$140m of which will go to Brazil. In 2003, the Brazilian cement manufacturer invested
Conservation International and Agrupacion Sierra Madre to Highlight World’s `Hotspots’
Conservation International and Agrupacion Sierra Madre will present "Hotspots Revisited," the 12th edition in CEMEX’s conservation book series, at a special event at the H...
Tangshan Jidong Cement acquires parent company unit
Tangshan Jidong Cement Co Ltd said its board has decided to acquire a transport unit belonging to Hebei Jidong Cement Group, its parent company, for 44.11m yuan. Tangshan
Pakistan’s MCA price probe
The Monopoly Control Authority (MCA) is probing into the cement factories pricing mechanism to determine if any cartel is involved in the price escalation of cement. It is sugg...
Tourah Cement: major profit gain
The net profit of Egyptian cement company Tourah Cement Co is seen to rise 159.2 per c year-on-year to 142.52m Egyptian pounds (US$24.7m) in 2004, according to analysis prepared...
Cimento Tupi to target exports
Brazilian Companhia Cimento Tupi, controlled by the group CP Cimento e Participacoes, will start to export next June, initially targeting at the US. The company is investing R$1...
Holcim Philippines relocates 36 families
Thirty-six families of the Angkalon Farmers Association residing at the quarry site of Holcim Philippines, Inc. (formerly Union Cement Corp.) in Lugait, Misamis Oriental, were r...
Greek Titan Cement Buys Co on Zante Island
Greek cement maker Titan Cement announced the buyout of concrete maker and trader Betokat, located on the Greek Ionian island of Zante.
Lafarge bids for Himachal Unit
Lafarge has bid for the Government of Himachal Pradesh’s offer for setting up a 2Mt plant in the state. The plant is likely to be set up with an investment of Rs600 crore....
Ilam Cement set to boost construction
According to ‘Tehran Times’, the cement produced in the Ilam Cement Plant is to see a production increase by up to 1Mt within the next two years, noted the managing director of ...
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