Italcementi extends Suez Cement offer
Italcementi is extending its takeover offer for Egypt’s Suez Cement Company until Dec. 30, it said on Wednesday. Italcementi said last week it would like to buy the 65.9 p...
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Indonesia to retain 51 percent Gresik stake
Indonesian officials said Thursday the government will retain a 51 percent stake in cement manufacturer Semen Gresik and will propose new options to end a row with Mexico’...
Spain cement 2004 output to set record
Strength in the Spanish housing market as well as in public contracting will result in a new record in cement production and consumption this year, the cement producers’ a...
Still riding the roller coaster
After another exciting period of nearly one month where rates reached unprecedented record levels, the market has stalled during most recent trading days. Figures have started t...
Egyptian cement exports up
Egypt’s cement exports jumped 75 per cent year-on-year to over 7Mt in the first 10 months of 2004, the Egyptian Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade said in a report. ...
Holcim Romania invests in environment protection
Holcim Romania, a subsidiary of Swiss cement company Holcim Ltd, invested Euro3.0m in an environment protection project comprising equipment upgrade at its plants in Campulung, ...
Plan to cut pollution rises from the ashes
Lafarge Cement’s Cauldon Works is to continue in its mission to reduce its impact on the environment by replacing some of the raw materials it currently uses with a by-pro...
Cement contractors face axe
Workers at a Waurn Ponds cement plant are set to lose their jobs today, just 10 days before Christmas. The workers were employed by contractor Lucon on a $50m upgrade of Blue ...
Siam Cement units receive Deming awards
Three Siam Cement Group subsidiaries have won Deming awards from the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers for excellence in Total Quality Management (TQM), according to Ka...
Carib Cement going ahead with US$100m expansion
Carib Cement is now preparing for its US$100m expansion - a project that was placed on hold nearly a year ago while the company awaited a response to its demand for a duty hike ...
Holcim Vietnam goes for growth
Mike Doyle, general director of Holcim Vietnam, comes to his office at 7am every morning for a regular 12 hour day. Taking his new post in Vietnam more than a month ago, the 59-...
Cement may cost 5-10% more in a month, India
Firming up of cement prices post-monsoon, usually considered natural, is delayed this time by about a month. A 5-10% growth in cement prices is expected in the next two months. ...
March start set for Warnes US$15m cement mill, Bolivia
Bolivian cement producer Itacamba Cemento will start construction of a US$15m cement milling plant near Warnes in Santa Cruz department in March 2005.
Plans to double production, Yemen
The Yemeni Public Corporation For Manufacturing and Marketing Cement is planning to double the country’s cement production capacity by developing and expanding the existing thre...
Northern cement works under construction, Vietnam
Trang An Shareholding Co. broke ground at the weekend for a 910,000tpa cement works in the northern municipality of Tuyen Quang, Lao Dong reports. Construction of the trillion-d...
Building confidence at 25-year high, South Africa
Building industry confidence was at levels last reached in the economic upswing of 1978/81, with the fourth quarter business confidence of contractors in the residential sector ...
Camargo Correa Cimentos prepares 1st US shipment , Brazil
Brazilian cement maker Camargo Correa Cimentos (CCC) plans to export its first official shipment of white cement to the US in 2005, Brazilian news service AE Setorial quoted pro...
Bonemeal to fuel cement plant, UK
A cement works has been given the go-ahead to burn meat and bone meal as fuel at its South Wales plant. The Environment Agency Wales has confirmed that Lafarge Cement"s plant ...
Shree Cement expects good run in North India
Cement prices are expected to firm up in the coming months, on the back of nearly 8%-9% growth in demand. Rajasthan-based Shree Cement is confident of achieving a good growth in...
Cemex aims for 4Q04 Ebitda of US$560m
Cemex plans to report more than US$560m in Ebitda fourth quarter this year, which would represent a 10% jump over the same quarter last year, Cemex said in a statement.
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