Mexico’s Cemex Agrees to sell two cement plants in US
Brazil’s Grupo Votorantim has apparently reached an agreement in principle to buy two cement plants in the US from Mexico’s Cemex, according to local news sources. T...
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Demand for cement to shoot up
A continuing construction boom in Qatar may see the demand for cement go up steeply over the next two years. According to a study conducted on the region’s cement industr...
India Cement Output up 20% in north
Major cement companies in northern India have increased production by about 20% from mid-October to meet growing demand from the construction sector, an industry executive said ...
Aditya Birla Group launches UltraTech in Hyderabad
Launching UltraTech Cement, the new name of L&T Cement, in Hyderabad on Wednesday, OP Puranmalka, executive president and chief marketing officer of UltraTech Cement Limited, Ad...
Oficemen to sign environmental agreement
In Spain, the cement association, Oficemen, will today sign an agreement with trade unions CCOO and UGT that will commit cement plants to reducing their pollution emissions. Un...
UAE Fujairah Cement Industries
UAE cement manufacturer Fujairah Cement Industries Company posted a net profit of 73.64 mln UAE dirhams ($20.1m) for the first nine months of 2004, up from 25.3 mln dirhams ($6....
UAE Sharjah Cement net profits rise
UAE cement producer Sharjah Cement and Industrial Development Company registered a significant increase in net profit to 98.4 mln UAE dirhams ($26.8m) for the first nine months ...
Hima Cement completes water treatment facility
Hima Cement has completed and commissioned a water-treatment plant at the factory site at Hima in Kasese. The water purification plant worth Euro 85,000 (Shs189 million) will ...
Portland Cement reports a Sh269m loss
East African Portland Cement, Kenya, slid into losses with a Sh269 million posting for the year to June 30, 2004. Audited results released by the cement manufacturer yesterday...
Lafarge keen on more Indian acquisitions
Lafarge India Ltd is weighing the options of setting up greenfield units or taking over existing units in the country for growth. The Indian subsidiary, which has presence in ...
Exchange rate losses hinder Juan Minetti profits
Argentina’s second largest cement company Juan Minetti, controlled by Holcim, posted a 40.8m peso (US$13.8m) consolidated net profit in the first nine months of the year, ...
More on the Rawang expansion
Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd (LMC) will see the cement-grinding capacity of its Rawang plant increase by 800,000t by July next year when it commissions an additional cement mill t...
Buzzi Unicem improves margins thanks to Dyckerhoff
Underlying turnover at the enlarged Buzzi Unicem group increased by 6.1 per cent to €2,097.2m during the first nine months of 2004 and the operating profit at the EBITDA level s...
Pakistani cement sector shows robust growth in Q1
The cement sector showed robust growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year with 93.1 percent capacity utilisation while analysts are optimistic that the growth momen...
JK brings together all cement units
In what is seen as the culmination of a successful attempt to rescue the JK North group (led by Gaur Hari Singhania), its flagship, JK Synthetics, has been demerged. All the cem...
Guangdong addresses dust problems
Guangdong Province is expected to introduce a floating dust warning system to help tackle worsening air pollution. Meteorological departments in the province have established ob...
PTCL rings up gains
The Karachi Stock Market crossed the 5400 points level Wednesday on the back of aggressive buying. The cement sector was again in the limelight, with DG Khan Cement, Maple Leaf,...
UAE Ras Al-Khaimah Co for White Cement
UAE Ras al-Khaimah Co for White Cement & Construction Materials posted a net profit of 10.26 mln UAE dirhams (US$2.8m) for the first nine months of 2004, compared to 4.42 mln di...
Spain’s Cementos Portland’s profit drops
Spanish cement company Cementos Portland Valderrivas, a subsidiary of local construction and services group Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), posted a net attributabl...
Garadagh cement increases output
Garadagh Cement has put out about 1Mt of cement since the beginning of this year. The chairman of the board of Garadagh Cement Uwe Koehler told Azer-press that it was planned ...
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