Rail tariff increase will affect cement industry
South African rail tariff increases will affect the local cement industry - Aveng SA’s largest construction group, Aveng, has warned that the mooted 40% increase in rail t...
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UltraTech Cement posts net loss
The AV Birla group company - UltraTech Cement Ltd has posted a net loss of Rs 2.3 crore for the quarter ended September 2004. Net sales for the quarter was reported at Rs 587.8 ...
Cement Companies To Raise Export Prices
Taiwan’s cement makers will likely raise their export prices by 15%-20% to US$30-US$40 a ton for 2005 because of continued strong demand, the Commercial Times reports. Th...
Mary Nour stranded for over 100 days
It has now been more than 100 days that the ship Mary Nour and its crew of 41 have been stranded in the Mexican port of Altamira, forbidden from unloading its cargo of cement. ...
Markets continue to strengthen
All dry bulk markets have continued to go up during last week especially for the Capesize market which increased heavily and, more particularly, at the end of the week. The most...
Lucky Cement’s expansion programme
Lucky Cement, Pakisatan is planning to build an additional production line of 8400tpd at its existing Site in Bannu Division. The company has already entered into agreements wit...
Polysius commissions two 10,000-tpd kiln lines in China
Krupp Polysius has just commissioned the second kiln line for Anhui Conch, in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, making the completion of the two 10,000tpd Polysius kiln completions for ...
Book at bedtime
Reading ‘Globalisation and its Discontents’ by Joseph E Stiglitz (winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics) a section on understanding the origins of the East Asia crisis of...
Laramie cement plant facing lawsuit
Environmentalists have given notice they intend to sue a cement factory for 6000 violations of air quality regulations over the last two years. Emissions from the Mountain Cemen...
Holcim invests in La Cemento
The Ecuadorian Cement company La Cemento Nacional has changed its name to Holcim Ecuador. The Swiss group Holcim entered La Cemento in 1976 as a minority shareholder, but since ...
Semen Gresik 9-Month figures
PT Semen Gresik, Indonesia, said its cement sales in the first nine months of this year rose 12 per cent on year to 11.64Mt, due to gains in both domestic sales and exports. In...
Energy costs too high, says Bamburi CEO
Bamburi Cement managing director, Didier Tresarrieu, said yesterday that for local industries to compete effectively with imports from the Comesa, energy costs need to come down...
RMC Group Shareholders to vote
Mexican cement maker Cemex SA (CX) said Monday that RMC Group Ltd’s shareholders will vote on its $5.8 billion cash and debt offer on Nov. 17. Cemex said in a filing with...
Lipetskcement statistics
Russian cement producer Lipetskcement produced 1.3Mt of cement in Jan-Sept 2004, a 8.6 per cent rise against in the same period 2003. Packed cement output was around 185,000 ton...
UAE Union Cement Jan-Sept 2004
The net profit of UAE Ras al-Khaimah cement manufacturer Union Cement rose to 80.26 mln UAE dirhams ($21.8m) in the first nine months of 2004 from 22.61 mln dirhams ($6.2m) in t...
India’s Somani Cement to build new plant
Somani Cement Company Ltd. is planning to set up a new 360,000tpa cement plant in India’s Gujarat state, the firm’s managing director said on Monday. The company wi...
Spanish Goliat to invest
Spanish cement maker Goliat, a subsidiary of Italian sector company Italcementi, will invest Euro 80m ($102.2 mln) in the modernisation of its factory in Malaga, Andalusia regio...
Cimpor To Buy 54% stake in Mat Atlantico
Cimpor-Cimentos de Portugal said Monday it has agreed to buy a 54 per cent stake in Spain’s Materiales del Atlantico for EUR4.55m. In a statement, Cimpor said the transac...
Cement manufacturers warn tariff safeguard removal
Domestic Philippine cement manufacturers yesterday warned that removal of the additional safeguard tariff on imported cement would only ensure other countries with excess capaci...
Save an elk
Montana City’s Ash Grove Cement Company has given $25,000 to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to help protect 20,000 acres of wildlife habitat in the Elkhorn Mountains. ...
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