Cemex acted quickly to cement RMC deal
The market heard about the deal on September 27 and was excited by its sheer size – reports the UK Banker magazine. Cemex, Mexico’s cement manufacturer, paid no less than ...
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Ukraine’s cement consumption
In January-July 2004, Ukraine’s cement consumption increased by +30 per cent against the respective period of 2003. Along with that, Ukraine’s production of cement i...
Indocement nine months figs down
PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa, Indonesia’s second-largest cement maker, Monday said its nine-month net profit fell 74 per cent on year due mainly to foreign exchange loss...
Italcementi Q3 net flat to lower
Italcementi SpA’s third quarter net profit, due Friday, is expected to be flat to lower on the lack of last year’s exceptional gains, and on higher energy costs, ana...
Russian cement data
The Russian cement industry continues to improve its perform and output data with latest figures for the first nine months of 2004 showing that 35.2Mt of cement was produced in ...
Cement kiln emissions are under fire in Maine
A Washington, DC-based environmental group has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the federal Environmental Protection Agency to comply with a previous court order to regulate air...
Japan’s Sumitomo Osaka Cement cuts forecast
Cement maker Sumitomo Osaka Cement Corp said it has lowered its full year to March 2005 net profit forecast to 4.6bn yen from 5. 5bn due to the adverse impact of surging coal an...
More gains at Oman Cement
Oman Cement has posted a 55 per cent increase in net profit at RO9.67 million for the first nine months of the current year ended September 30, 2004. Bashar Saleh Al Dhahir has...
Ghacem to utilise local limestone
Ghana Cement Works (GHACEM) is now using limestone from Yongwa in the Eastern Region to produce cement. This is a new cement standard approved by the Ghana Standards Board which...
ACC October cement despatches up
Associated Cement Companies (ACC) has reported a 13.8per cent increase in cement despatches for October 2004 at 1.402Mt as compared to 1.232Mt in October 2003. According to a re...
Cementos Lima Q3 profits down
Peru’s largest cement producer Cementos Lima has reported that lower sales contributed towards a 13.9 per cent fall in profits for the third quarter to September 30 compar...
OCI to Build New Cement Plant in Pakistan
Orascom Construction Industries announced that it has finalised negotiations for the acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in Chakwal Cement Company Limited listed on the Karachi S...
Omran-e-Anarak Cement contract
Omran-e-Anarak Cement, a newcomer to the cement sector, has decided to install a cement production plant with a design capacity of 3300tpd clinker.
New orders for Unitherm-Cemcon
Lafarge Beocin Cement (Serbia) has installed a new low NOx MAS® kiln burner for petcoke and anthracite, natural gas, and solid secondary fuels (future) on a 4000tpd kiln in autu...
New orders for KHD Humboldt Wedag in Iran
Sarouj Isfahan Co (SIC) a newcomer to the cement sector has contracted KHD to supply a cement production plant with a designed capacity of 2000tpd clinker. The investor’s decisi...
New Orders for ThyssenKrupp
At the beginning of this year, ThyssenKrupp Fördertechnik GmbH (TKF BU Materials Handling), St Ingbert-Rohrbach, Germany, was awarded a contract by the company Societe des Cimen...
New Orders for Hazemag
Hazemag & EPR GmbH based in Duelmen, Germany has received an order from FCB.Ciment in Villeneuve d’Ascq, France to supply a compound crusher for the comminution of limestone and...
Restore free trade in Mexican cement
With continuing debate over US cement shortages, some domestic US observers are now beginning to challenge the wisdom of a US Department of Commerce ruling which has effectively...
Program aims to improve skills
Corporate social responsibility is one of the touchstones for Union Cement Corp.’s (UCC) strategic and sustainable business direction.
Cement shortage in 2005 forecast
Vietnam will lack 6.5Mt of cement in 2005. According to the Ministry of Construction, demand is estimated at 29Mt while supply is only 22.6Mt. The cement industry will have to i...
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