Gujarat Ambuja Q2 net jumps 50 per cent
Gujarat Amuja Cements Ltd, India’s third-biggest cement maker by capacity, reported on Thursday a 50 per cent jump in quarterly earnings, buoyed by strong shipments and fi...
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Holcim confirms Aggregate Industries takeover bid
The Boards of Holcim and Aggregate Industries are pleased to announce that they have reached unanimous agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer to be made by Holcim to...
Ambuja Cement India Ltd to make public bid for ACC and Ambuja Eastern
Ambuja Cement India Ltd to make public bid shareholdings in The Associated Cement Companies Ltd and Ambuja Cement Eastern Ltd. Ambuja Cement India Ltd (ACIL) will be the allianc...
Holcim marches into India
Holcim has entered into a strategic alliance with Gujarat Ambuja Cements to enter the growth market of India and also makes a public purchase offer to the shareholders of The As...
Expensive clean-up from pollution leak
It may cost more than $45 million to clean up highly alkaline contamination seeping into Little Traverse Bay, Detroit from underground cement kiln dust piles on the property of ...
Cement company clears rubble from damaged roadway
Victorville, California: While the latest storms destroyed swaths of Highway 18 and submerged others under dirt and debris, Mitsubishi Cement, after surveying the damage to sect...
WAPCO’s turnover rises significantly
The West African Portland Company Plc (WAPCO) has announced a turnover growth by N7.3 billion, representing 82.9 per cent increase for the nine months ended September 30, 2004. ...
Raising the roof for refurbishment
The cement kiln at Lafarge’s Cauldon Works is undergoing a GBP750,000 refurbishment. Ian Mycock, Cauldon Works manager, says: "We shut down production every year to carry...
Azores cement sales up 7.4 per cent
Cement sales in Portugal’s autonomous region of the Azores Islands registered a 7.4 per cent year-on-year increase to a total 26,400t in November 2004, data from the Azore...
India Cements to explore steps to reduce debt costs
INDIA Cements Ltd will continue to look at steps to infuse fresh money into the company to reduce the cost of debt and to bring down the number of lenders, according to Mr N. Sr...
Angarskcement produces more in 2004
Angarskcement produced 21,628t of cement in December 2004, according to reported data. In 2004 the plant produced 670,800t of cement. Compared with 2003 output rose by 41,800t.
Ivano-Frankivsktsement increases cement production
The Ivano-Frankivsktsement company, one of the five biggest producers of cement and slate in Ukraine, increased cement production by 5.4 per cent to 115,300t in the fourth quart...
HeidelbergCement to invest more in Ukraine
This year HeidelbergCement company plans to invest around Euro 20m in modernization and development of its Ukrainian subsidiaries, Kryvyi Rih Cement and Dniprodzerzhynsk-based D...
Atlas searches for investor
Atlas, leader in the domestic market for construction chemicals, continues its search for funding for its own cement factory. The task is a difficult one, considering the curren...
Slovak anti-chrome investment
Slovak building materials producer Holcim (Slovensko) has invested nearly 4.2 mln Slovak crowns 9Euro108,800) in technology upgrade, it was reported on January 14, 2005. The ne...
Mikhailovcement makes more
Mikhailovcement made over 1.8Mt of products in 2004, up six per cent versus the same period 2003. In 2003 the enterprise made 1.7Mt of cement, an increase of 19 per cent from th...
Siam Cement to invest, but not in cement
Siam Cement, Thailand’s largest industrial conglomerate, plans to invest up to US$390m this year, but most of the money to be used for the acquisition of paper and petroch...
CRH linked to possible Spanish acquisition
With consolidation in the European cement sector showing some acceleration of late, trying to gauge where the next deal is coming from provides industry analysts with some inter...
First signs of weakness?
After the very prompt reaction of the market, which started mid-last week, it now seems that charterers have disappeared from the charts! The end of last week was very quiet and...
More EU industrial pollution guides agreed
A forum chaired by the European Commission under the EU’s IPPC industrial pollution directive has agreed three new guidelines, known as "BREFS", on how to apply best avail...
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