Spanish Cementos Lemona profit down
Spanish cement producer Cementos Lemona posted a Euro 9.11m consolidated attributable net profit for the first nine months of 2004, down 35 per cent year-on-year, the company re...
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Cement factory hits target
Lafarge Cement UK says it has met an environmental improvement target seven years ahead of schedule. The company, which operates the Westbury works, has cut emissions of dust pe...
Arabian Cement news
Saudi cement producer Arabian Cement Company (ACC) ACC, based in Jeddah, western Saudi Arabia, posted a net profit of 261 mln Saudi riyals ($69.6m) for the first nine months of ...
Orissa government approves Sumangal brand
Shiva Cement Ltd., has informed BSE that Government of Orissa through its PR Department has approved Sumangal Brand Cement for development works. Suitable direction have been is...
FLS Industries A/S completes sale
The Danish engineering and building materials group FLS Industries A/S announced on Friday (29 October) that its sale of the cement operations Aalborg Portland and Unicon to the...
TPIPL creditors approve restructuring plan
Creditors of TPI Polene Plc overwhelmingly approved changes to the company’s debt restructuring plan, the Bangkok Post reports. The changes will allow TPIPL, the country&...
Indonesia’s Semen Cibinong reverses
Indonesia’s Semen Cibinong reverses into the red in Jan-Sept on forex loss. PT Semen Cibinong posted a nine months to September net loss of 379.26 bln rupiah, a reversal f...
Strong 3Q04 earnings from SCCC
Siam City Cement (SCCC) reported strong 3Q04 earnings with a net profit of Bt1,112mn (EPS Bt4.62), up 17 per cent qoq and 58 per cent yoy. The strong rise qoq was the result of ...
Lafarge not bidding for Loma Negra for time being
Lafarge, the world’s largest cement maker, is not bidding for now for Loma Negra, Argentina’s largest cement company, but might have a change of heart in future if t...
Colombian Cementos Rioclaro
Colombian cement maker Cementos Rioclaro, a subsidiary of Colombian largest cement maker Cemento Argos, posted a net profit of 33.574bn Colombian pesos ($12.99m) from January to...
India’s Mangalam Cement swings to profit
Indian cement maker Mangalam Cement Ltd said on Friday it made a net profit of 4.6 million rupees in the July-September quarter compared with a net loss of 290.7 million rupees ...
China touches the interest brakes
China’s central bank raised interest rates Thursday for the first time in nearly a decade, signaling a deep unease with the breakneck pace of development and an intent to curb a...
AXA increases HeidelbergCement stake
French insurance giant Axa said Friday it had increased its stake in German cement maker HeidelbergCement to 10.22 percent from 9.28 percent previously. Under German law, compan...
Price fall is seasonal claims Sanghi Cement
Sanghi Cement, a Gujarat based manufacturer, which has recently doubled its capacity is said to have triggered a price fall in Gujarat. Hemant Pandey of Sanghi Industries, howev...
Redwood City cement imports
The port of Redwood City handled 572,718t of scrap metal, construction materials and other commodities between July 1 and Sept. 30. The increase in Asiatic and Pacific Northwest...
UK to request higher emissions trading allowance
UK government said Wednesday it planned to ask the European Commission for a somewhat larger share of the greenhouse gas emissions allowances that are to begin trading on an EU ...
Groups Target Bush EPA’s Refusal
In defiance of a court order issued almost four years ago, the Bush administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) still has not issued regulations to reduce air polluti...
Residents argue at Blue Circle burn plans
Residents concerned about Blue Circle Southern Cement plant’s plan to burn alternative fuels asked for further studies on the possible health and environmental effects of ...
Spanish terminal developments
As reported yesterday, Italian cement group Buzzi Unicem has acquired a 68 per cent stake in Orionidas, a fledgling Spanish import company, involving former Agrox officials, for...
Indonesia Sept cement consumption up 11.5 per cent
Indonesia’s cement consumption grew 11.5 per cent in September from a year earlier to 2.92Mt, the country’s largest cement producer PT Semen Gresik said, reflecting ...
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