Audax buys Ready Mixed
Southern Equipment, the 69-year-old United States Raleigh company in business as Ready Mixed Concrete, has been bought by a Boston investment firm, and a group of the companies&...
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Growth of China’s building materials industry slows
The growth of China’s building materials industry has been slowing down quarter by quarter this year owing to the government’s macro economic control measures since ...
Maltsovsky Portlandcement output higher
In the past ten months of 2004, Maltsovsky Portlandcement, a major supplier of cement in Russia and Europe, made over 3Mt of cement, a 3 per cent boost year-on-year. Last year...
Extra eye to be kept on chimney
Another camera is likely to be trained on an industrial chimney in Rugby to monitor chemicals which pour out. Rugby borough council officers have recommended an extra CCTV cam...
Lafarge plans for tyre burn
Lafarge Brasil has inaugurated a new plant in Matozinhos (Minas Gerais state). The main characteristic of the new plant is the operation with industrial sub-products in the whol...
Lafarge says its Indian brand push is costliest
Lafarge spends more on brand promotion as a proportion of sales in India than any other country in the world, the company’s chairman, Bertrand Collomb, told Business Stand...
Activity levels remain quite firm
With the grain side no longer providing the same number of opportunities, the Panamax market has been a bit weaker this week despite being helped by a still strong mineral activ...
Shikapwasha Deports Chilanga Cement GM
Zambian home affairs minister Lt Gen Ronnie Shikapwasha has ordered the deportation of Chilanga Cement general manager Ian Coulter. Immigration public relations officer Mulako M...
Cement Likely to Be Used in road building
Cement could soon replace bitumen in building roads, a top Kenyan official said yesterday. A Government-backed study on the advantages of using cement instead of bitumen has bee...
EPA pressed to set mercury limits for cement factories
Four years ago, a US Federal judge ordered the US Environmental Protection Agency to set limits on the amount of mercury cement factories may discharge into the air. Today those...
TPIPL to spend $150m to expand capacity
TPI Polene Plc (TPIPL), Thailand’s third-largest cement producer, said it plans to spend about $150m in its project to expand its cement production capacity by 3.3Mta to service...
Argentina Loma Negra in advanced talks with Camargo Correa
Argentina’s largest cement maker Loma Negra is in advanced negotiations over its sale to Brazilian Caue Solucioes Construtivas, owned by the Brazilian sector group Camargo...
Mary Nour detention unlawful
With the Mary Nour still docked at the Port of Altamira, Tampico, and the Altamira Customs insisting that the this Panamanian registered vessel should not be allowed to leave, u...
Garadagh cement plans EBRD funding
The executive board of Holcim prepares to sanction an overhaul of the company’s cement plant in Baku controlled by the joint-stock company Garadagh Cement. The overhaul wi...
Spanish cement sector targets waste burn
The Spanish cement industry is aiming to reduce costs and comply with the Kyoto protocol on climate change by adapting some plants to burn refuse instead of coal and petcoke. Th...
Lafarge appoints Razak Ramli
Former Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) secretary-general, Tan Sri Abdul Razak Ramli has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of Lafarge Ma...
German cement prices
Domestic cement prices are up by an average Euro 12/t from the Euro 30-35/t from 2003. No further market share losses in H2 04. Volumes expected to fall for the national market ...
HeidelbergCement improves margins
In the first nine months of the year, HeidelbergCement achieved a turnover of €5215m. This represents an underlying increase of 2.6 per cent and of 8.3 per cent in absolute ter...
Company seeks to build cement production quarry
A company has revived a proposal for a limestone quarry and cement plant north of Paulden in the US. Drake Cement LLC hopes to mine limestone on 59 acres of the Prescott Nationa...
Birla group to set up concrete plants
The Aditya Birla group is planning to set up 30 ready-mix-concrete (RMC) cement plants in several locations across the country in the next two years and one of it would be in Ko...
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