Saudi Southern Province
Saudi cement producer Southern Province Cement (SPC) posted a net profit of 439 mln Saudi riyals ($117.1m) for the first nine months of 2004, up from 386.5 mln riyals ($103.1m) ...
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Chinese Firm To Invest $100m in New Cement Plant in UAE Fujairah
A Chinese company will invest over $100m to establish a new cement plant in the UAE emirate of Fujairah, it was reported on October 27, 2004. Construction works on the new plan...
Pakistan’s DGK Cement posts profits
The profit of DG Khan Cement in the first quarter ended September 30, 2004, may range from Rs 235 million (US$3.9 million) to Rs 302 million. DG Khan sold 484,000t cement during...
Albania Renews Licence to Elbasan
Albania’s Environment Ministry has renewed the operating licence to the Elbasan cement plant in central Albania after the facility fulfilled the ministry’s requireme...
Buzzi Unicem expands in Spain
Italian cement group Buzzi Unicem has acquired a 68 per cent stake in Orionidas, a fledgling Spanish import company, for around Euro 680,000. Orionidas had tried to set up a ne...
Siam Cement posts jump in 3Q net profit
The Siam Cement Group posted net profit of 11,988 million baht (US$292m) for the third quarter of this financial year, a jump of 147 per cent on the same period last year. The ...
Thai TPIP creditors approve debt plan
Creditors of TPI Polene PCL, Thailand’s No. 3 cement maker, approved on Thursday a plan to restructure its $600 million debt, a Justice Ministry official said, driving its...
High realisations boost ACC
Associated Cement Companies (ACC) reported a 182 per cent increase in net profit to Rs78.6 crore (US$11.72m) for the second quarter ended September 30 (Rs 27.9 crore for the cor...
APCAC Conference Trinidad
In his role as APCAC President, Christian Agnes of Lafarge Ciments Antilles had the pleasure of opening the APCAC XXI Technical Conference 2004 held at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel...
Orascom to invest in cement industry in Pakistan
A senior delegation of Orascom Telecom SAE of Egypt met with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in Islamabad recently and discussed opportunities in Pakistan’s fast-growing telecom sec...
Nesher Cement to build private gas-driven power plant
Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises is Israel’s sixth company to announce plans to build a private natural gas-driven power station that will compete with IEC.
Saudi Jan-Sept 2004 cement sales
The combined sales of Saudi Arabia’s eight cement companies rose to 4.0 bln Saudi riyals ($1.067bn) in the first nine months of 2004 from 3.7 bln riyals ($987m) in the yea...
India infrastructure output
India’s infrastructure output growth picked up in September, although the pace of expansion was slower compared with the year-ago month. Infrastructure output rose 5.9% on...
HeidelbergCement site must conform to emissions law
German group HeidelbergCement, Europe’s second-largest cement manufacturer, will be forced, for the present, to operate its site at Leimen in western Germany according to ...
Italy Antitrust approves Aalborg, Unicon Purchase by Cementir
Italy’s Antitrust authority gave the green light to Italian cement company Cementir to buy cement company Aalborg Portland and ready-mixed concrete company Unicon, it was ...
FLS embraces Efficiency of 3D
FL Smidth of Denmark, the world’s leading supplier of cement production technology, has selected SolidWorks(R) software as its 3D mechanical design standard because it wil...
Maltsovsky Portlandcement
Maltsovsky Portlandcement made over 2.8Mt of cement in 9M 2004, a 1.4 per cent rise against in the same period 2003. Packed cement output was about 268,000t, Eurocement press se...
Kirchdorfer Group to build US$6.0m plant
Austrian industrial group Kirchdorfer plans to build a $6m facility for production of sand, gravel and concrete near the Bulgarian Black Sea port city of Burgas, Bulgarian busin...
Cement unit may go on stream next month
The first phase of Century Plyboards’ one-million-tonne cement plant in Meghalaya is expected to be commissioned next month, and the second phase in December 2005. Accord...
Readymix seen as springboard for eastern Europe
The acquisition of UK cement company RMC by Mexican group Cemex will also represent a step towards expansion on the German market for the Mexican company, as Readymix, the Germa...
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