Ghacem capacity upgrade planned
The Ghana Cement Works (GHACEM) has honoured 40 distributors and customers nationwide at Tema with the assurance that the company would meet the challenges of the competition in...
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Growth in cement export demand in Pakistan
Rapid growth in cement demand in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand has ignited a new zeal and spirit in Pakistan’s cement sector which ...
Polysius wins US$308m cement plant bid
Cynce de Oriente, a 100 per cent owned unit of Mexican cement maker La Cruz Azul, has awarded a Euro 235m contract to Germany’s Polysius to build a cement plant in Palmeri...
Polysius wins US$308m cement plant bid
Cynce de Oriente, a 100 per cent owned unit of Mexican cement maker La Cruz Azul, has awarded a Euro 235m contract to Germany’s Polysius to build a cement plant in Palmeri...
Govt to open up cement market
The Transitional Government of Liberia has opened the cement market to all business people with the capacity to import the product for local consumption. Commerce and Industry M...
Vietnam to import 5Mt of clinker in 2005
Vietnam expects to import about 5Mt of clinker this year, up 11 per cent on year, to meet the increasing demand from domestic plants, an industry executive said Tuesday. "We e...
Semen Cibinong under investigation
The Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) planned to investigate the skyrocketing price of Semen Cibinong’s shares by 75 per cent ahead of the plan of majority ownership on the cem...
Cement & Steel: Mega Projects
The Thai government has implemented a strategy for developing the country’s infrastructure to support Thailand’s comparative advantages and to sustain growth. During...
French leave
The modestly sized Mediterranean port of Nice is the second largest cement port in France, behind Le Havre. In 2003, the amount of cement handled was 326,000t, a four per cent ...
China Resources records sales jump
China Resources Cement Holdings saw sales increase at least 20 per cent last year despite anti-inflation measures by the mainland government, according to vice-chairman and gene...
Enviro firm sues HeidelbergCement
A small, Pasadena-based firm is suing HeidelbergCement Group, claiming the company commissioned complex environmental cleanup plans that it never paid for. Heidelberger hired th...
Insiders in FLS sell 59,314 Shares
An insider management group in Danish engineering and cement group FLS Industries sold 59,314 shares worth a total of 5.9 mln Danish crowns ($1.0m), it was reported on January 6...
Huaxin Cement outlines investment plan for 2005
Huaxin Cement Co. Ltd, China, in which Holcim has a sizeable stake plans to invest 1.258 billion yuan (US$157m) in 2005 to construct two more clinker production lines and two la...
ACC to sell Andhra cement facility
Associated Cement Companies (ACC), country’s second largest cement maker, has decided to sale off its Mancherial Cement Works in Andhra Pradesh. The decision, which was ta...
Swiss cement sales up 7.0 per cent
Cement sales in Switzerland rose by 7.0 per cent year-on-year to 3.955Mt in 2004, the Swiss cement industry association Cemsuisse said on January 7, 2005. Cement sales went up ...
India Cements in fund-raising move
India Cements is raising nearly Rs 250 crore through a mix of instruments to foreign investors Asia Debt Recovery Company Ltd, ADM Maculus Fund LP and Sheen Pearl Investments. T...
Fire in Perlmooser’s plant
A fire broke out in Austrian cement producer Lafarge Perlmooser in Mannersdorf, Lower Austria, on the evening of January 6, 2005. The fire, which started in one of the cable co...
Turkish Denizli Birlik Cimento to invest
Turkish cement producer Denizli Birlik Cimento will invest Euro120m in a cement factory in Yatagan, Mugla province, southwestern Turkey, in cooperation with 123 local businessme...
Holcim Transfer Semen Cibinong’s shares
Holcim Participations (Mauritius) Limited had transferred its whole ownership on PT Semen Cibinong Tbk (SMCB) as much as 77.3 per cent to Holderfin BV, the owner of 100 per cent...
Siam Cement branches out
Thailand’s largest manufacturing conglomerate, Siam Cement Group, plans to start a new building-services company, as it branches out into the service industry for the firs...
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