Mexico cement output rises four per cent Jan-Sept
Cement output in Mexico is up more than four per cent in the first nine months of the year, rising to meet demand from a buoyant housing sector and more public works in a recove...
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Cement production up by 15.3 per cent to 1,047,000t In October, Ukraine
In October, cement production rose by 15.3 per cent compared with October 2003, to 1,047,000t, according to the State Statistics Committee.
US Hurricanes Fail To Flatten Australia’s Rinker
Higher product prices and strong US building activity helped Australia’s Rinker Group Ltd offset rising costs and Florida hurricanes to beat market earnings forecasts in i...
Committee set to announce price band for cement companies, UAE
The price of cement is to be fixed and violators will be fined, the committee commissioned to stabilise cement prices said.
Cemex to sell cement plants to Votorantim
Mexican cement maker Cementos Mexicanos (Cemex) said on November 15, 2004 it had signed a letter of intent with Brazilian cement maker Votorantim Cimentos for the sale of two ce...
Multiple murders in cement factory
We had followed the fortunes of one of our Russian cement subscribers over the years with interest, having first met him at the Cemtech St Peterburg conference back in 1993. Ini...
Chairman of Ssangyong Cement Industrial Corp arrested
The Supreme Public Prosecutors’ Office on Monday arrested Kim Suk-won, honorary chairman of Ssangyong Cement Industrial Corp. on charges of embezzlement. Kim allegedly embezzle...
Lafarge to start Mejia plant by 2006
Lafarge will start commercial production at its proposed 1Mta cement plant at Mejia in Bankura by 2006. The construction work for the plant will start from 2005. "Lafarge will c...
HeidelbergCement strengthens US involvement
HeidelbergCement’s US subsidiary Lehigh Cement Company together with Glens Falls Cement Co, Inc, a subsidiary of the American joint company of Buzzi Unicem S.p.A. and Dyckerhoff...
Cementos Alfa invests Euro12m in exta milling
Spanish cement maker Cementos Alfa has invested Euro12m in raw material milling at its clinker plant in Mataporquera, Cantabria region, northern Spain, it was reported on Novemb...
Semen Gresik sees 2004 net profit rising
Indonesia’s Semen Gresik sees 2004 net profit rising to 400 bln rupiah for 2004 against a restated 378bn in 2003, said the company’s Finance Director Cholil Hasan. H...
Mexican cement plant officials debate new plant
Representatives for Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua, the Mexican company considering building a cement plant in Pueblo County, were in town last week. Grupo Cementos has been consi...
CCC puts US$100m expansion on hold
Jamaica’s Caribbean Cement (CCC) has reportedly postponed the US$100m capital investment in its Kingston plant because the government has not yet put into law a 40.8 per c...
SHC restrains Army from interfering in cement company quarry
Karachi: Sindh High Court Friday restrained Army officials from interfering in mining activities of Pakland cement limited in lawsuit for injunction against interference by defe...
Demand for cement estimated 33Mt by 2008
According to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper (November 11, 2004), a recently publicised study by the Egyptian Hermes Group foresees the demand for cement in Saudi Arabia to continue...
Bio Bio takes the green route
Chilean cement producer Cementos Bio Bio (CBB) in Bio Bio region, southern Chile, will invest $40m in its forestry operations within the next nine years, CBB general manager, Ul...
US concrete makers contend with scarcity of cement
A shortage of cement imports and tight domestic supplies are forcing Delaware concrete manufacturers and suppliers to cut back on work hours and raise prices. The strong US hous...
NEC develop flame resistant polycarbonate based on fly ash
NEC Corporation, Japan, has announced that it has succeeded in the development of a flame resistant polycarbonate resin, which cuts manufacturing energy consumption by over 20 p...
China’s Huaxin Cement plans JV with Huangshi
Huaxin Cement Co Ltd plans to cooperate with Huangshi Yiruida Investment Co Ltd in a cement joint venture with total capital of 500 mln yuan, the listed company said in a statem...
Govt approves investment for Cement JV
The Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment has agreed to Nghi Son Cement Joint Venture Company’s proposal of raising investment capital by $248 million, local medi...
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