Lehigh’s Union bridge wants new quarry start-up
Almost 10 years after the Lehigh Cement received a mining permit from the state, the company wants to begin quarrying in earnest at its 700-acre tract south of New Windsor - pro...
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Cement firms to profit from building boom
India’s leading cement producers are set to report a surge in quarterly earnings, driven by a construction boom in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Rising middle-class...
Modern Cement second unit starts operation
Modern Cement Ltd (MCL), a Bang;ladeshi grinding operation, yesterday launched operation of its second grinding unit catering 600t of cement daily to the huge market demand. Wit...
Ghacem cement up by 12 per cent
Ghana Cement Company will increase its factory cement price from 42,665 cedis a bag to 47,678.54 cedis representing 12 per cent increase with effect from next Wednesday, January...
Foreign shareholding up in cement sector
Foreign shareholding in Indian cement companies have gone up during the last quarter, indicating strong overseas investors’ confidence in Indian infrastructure sector as a...
Chromium VI in cement
New UK restrictions on the amount of chromium VI in cement come into force yesterday, 17 January 2005. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (Amendment) Regulations 20...
Peru’s 2004 cement sales rise
Peru’s overall cement sales in 2004 rose 9.3 per cent to 4,541,978t in 2004 from the 4,154,365t sold in the previous year, the National Association of Cement Producers, or...
Inteko Pushka increases output
In October-December, Kramatorsk-based cement plant Pushka (Donetsk region) increased its production volume in comparative prices by 12.2 per cent or UAH 2.063m up to UAH 19.01m ...
Egyptian price increases
Local Egyptian cement companies commenced the year with price increases, ranging from LE5/t to LE15/t. National Cement reported the lowest ex-factory cement price pertaining to
Cement firms need protection
The Cement Manufacturers Association of the Philippines (CeMAP) yesterday reiterated that the local cement industry should be strengthened first before tariffs are removed. CeMA...
Indonesia 2005 cement demand to rise
Domestic cement demand this year may rise by up to 10 per cent from the 30Mt seen in 2004, on the back of the government’s plan to launch infrastructure projects, the Ko...
Thai TPI Polene expects sales growth in 2005
Thai cement producer TPI Polene PCL expects its sales this year to grow by 10-15 per cent on year, thanks to growing domestic demand and also higher cement production, a company...
Cemex net profit more than triples
Cemex said on Tuesday its net profit for October-December was US$334m, up from US$91m in the same period a year earlier, also boosted by foreign exchange gains versus a currency...
Lafarge buys out minority shareholders
Lafarge said Tuesday it paid US$141m to buy out minority holdings retained by the State of Wisconsin Investment Board in its businesses in South Korea, India and Japan. In a st...
Brisk cement demand should provide TPI growth driver
Thailand: TPI Polene’s third-quarter earnings were a disappointment by any measure, but analysts expect better performances ahead for the cement maker on a return to full ...
Blunt talking
Among his first actions as the new chief executive of Missouri, Gov. Matt Blunt took a scalpel to the state’s environmental regulation agency.
Cement production increases 11.8%
Bolivian cement production increased 11.8 per cent from January through November 2004 compared with the same period last year, according to the national statistics institute (IN...
PPC sees full-year profit up on growing sales
South Africa’s biggest cement producer, Pretoria Portland Cement, expects full-year operating profits to increase thanks to robust sales, the company said on Friday. "We ...
Cement demand higher in 2005
Cement demand in Vietnam this year is estimated at 28.4Mt, 2.6Mt higher than in 2004. According to the Ministry of Construction, more than US$1.4 billion will be needed to devel...
Cemex will get no priority to develop works
Indonesian government would not give any privilege for Cemex Asia to set up new cement manufacturing in Indonesia when the government invited investors to do business in this se...
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