Dragon’s Concrete passes 6-year mark without a lost-time injury, USA
The Concrete Division of Dragon Cement and Concrete has gone six years – more than one million work hours – without a lost-time injury among the nearly 100 employees who work in...
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Police seize 150 bags of fake cement, Uganda
Police are investigating Tororo Cement Ltd. for alleged manufacture and supply of fake cement.
Maddaloni Plant Generates eight per cent Cementir turnover, Italy
The plant in Maddaloni, southern Italy, of Italian cement company Cementir SpA, a unit of local construction company Caltagirone, generates an annual turnover accounting for som...
Home-Building Boom ’To Rein in Volumes Growth At PPC’, South Africa
Construction companies and building material suppliers appear set to suffer a backlash from booming demand in the residential building sector.
Strabag to build EUR 111m cement works, Hungary
Strabag Epito Rt, the Hungarian unit of Austrian construction group Strabag, plans to invest HUF27bn (EUR 111m) in a cement works between Szekszard and Pecs, southern Hungary, ...
Cement prices raised after the fall in prices, South India
Cement prices in south India have been raised after the fall in prices witnessed in the last two months.
Cement sales seen at 11.3Mt in 2004, Poland
Cement sales in Poland are expected to increase by 2-3 per cent YoY to between 11.2Mt and 11.3Mt for 2004, Andrzej Tekiel, chairman of the country’s cement and lime prod...
Protesters demand ministry take action against petcoke usage, Jordan
According to "Jordan Times", local representatives of Fuheis staged a protest in front of the Ministry of Environment demanding that the government take immediate action to prev...
Government may allow Cemex to increase stake in Gresik, Indonesia
The Indonesian government is considering an option to allow Cemex to increase its stake in the country’s largest cement maker PT Semen Gresik to 49 or 51 per cent, accordi...
No breaking of rules for cement project, says Lafarge
Allaying apprehensions of illegal land acquisition for the US$25m limestone mining project in Meghalaya, India for its upcoming cement plant across the border in Bangladesh, a...
WEDCO to enter into new lease negotiations
The West End Development Corporation is to enter into new lease negotiations with the Bermuda Cement Company (BCC). WEDCO chairman David Burch made the announcement last night a...
Raysut Cement proposes RO15m rights
Raysut Cement, Oman has proposed to come out with a rights issue of five million shares at a price of RO3.000 per share aggregating to RO15 million. The rights offer is to part...
Tam Diep Cement plant put into service
Tam Diep Cement Co. under Vietnam Cement Corp. has recently put its factory into operation in the northern province of Ninh Binh to produce high quality cement, PCB-40. The f...
Ultratech Nov shipments up 13.5 percent on year
India’s UltraTech Cement said on Friday its cement shipments in November rose 13.5 per cent to 1.045Mt
Cimpor buys Spain’s Branas de Brins
Portuguese cement company Cimpor has bought Spanish company Branas de Brins for Euro 7.51m. Cimpor said late on Thursday its Spanish subsidiary Noroeste Corp., signed the contr...
Austrian Lasselsberger wins permit for Czech plant
Austrian ceramics and building materials group Lasselsberger GmbH will build a 2.5 billion crown (US$108m) cement factory in the Czech Republic, the company’s Czech unit s...
Vietnam to Face Possible Cement Crisis
Vietnam may face a serious shortage of cement in the near future due to increasing demand and slow implementation of cement projects nationwide, according to the head of Constru...
Cementir cement plant in South Italy seized
Cementir SpA said its cement plant in Maddaloni in Southern Italy has been seized as part of an inquiry into its extraction activities in the area. Cementir said that its extra...
Efforts to reopen CCI unit
Representatives of the Cement Corporation of India Employees Union (CCIEU) and Staff and Workers’ Union (SWU), Adilabad, will meet the Chief Minister, Y. S. Rajashekhara R...
Union urges govt to keep 51 per cent stake in Gresik
The trade union of cement maker Semen Gresik has urged the government to retain its 51 per cent stake in the company and not to sell it to Cemex Asia Holdings, a Mexican firm. ...
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