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GRASIM Industries Ltd is looking at a 5-10 per cent jump in its cement exports in the current financial year on higher sales to West Asian countries through its UltraTech CemCo ...
The Moroccan unit of Swiss cement giant Holcim saw its first-half net profit slide 2.5 per cent to 174 million dirhams (US$19.45m) due to the impact of a special tax on cement ...
The Brazilian cement manufacturer Camargo Correa Cimentos - fourth largest of Brazil - is to expand activities through the capital market. The company is to go public through a ...
According to Teshreen newspaper, OMRAN Cement Company, a state-owned company affiliated to the Ministry of Economy and in charge of the import and export of building materials, ...
Texas Industries, Inc. today reported net income of $35.9m ($1.51 per share) for the quarter ended August 31, 2004. The same quarter last year showed a loss of $15.7 million ($....
Cemex invested US$135m in its 10 years of operation in Panama, Cemex Panama manager Enzo Moshella, said on September 21, 2004. A total of US$29m were allocated for capacity incr...
The Government of India’s Ministry of Commerce & Industry has issued the following press release: The capacity and production of the Indian Cement Industry has more than ...
N. Srinivasan, Managing Director of India Cements, has been elected President of the Cement Manufacturers’ Association for 2004-05. Manoj Gaur, Managing Director of Jaypee...
Cement manufacturers want the government to retain safeguard duties versus imported cement, claiming that excess cement capacity in Asia still poses "a threat of dumping." Felix...
LISHEEN Mines, the Tipperary-based mining subsidiary of Anglo American, has signed a deal for Ireland’s largest supply contract of environmentally-friendly cement. It is ...
The ship Mary Nour and her 41-member crew have been stuck at Mexican ports for more than two months, barred from unloading Russian cement after local producers, including Mexica...
Egypt produced a total of 2.498Mt of cement in June 2004, up from 2.439Mt in May 2004, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said in a monthly report. Local cement sales totalled 2.3...
Turkish cement and clinker producer and distributor Lafarge Aslan Cimento will invest a total $10.4m in output increase and occupational safety in the the period 2005 to 2007, i...
The net profit of Egyptian cement company Tourah Cement Co soared 612.5 pct year-on-year to 85.04 mln Egyptian pounds ($13.7m) in the first half of 2004. The growth in earnings...
Grasim Industries Ltd, a part of India’s diversified AV Birla Group, expects a rise of between 5% to 10% in its cement exports in the current financial year on higher sale...
Indonesian cement consumption grew 13.6 percent in August to 2.88 million tonnes compared with the same period a year ago, according to data from the country’s largest cem...
Chia Hsin Cement Greater China Holding Corp plans to more than triple cement production capacity by 2006, in part by acquiring producers hurt by China’s macroeconomic cont...
Nearly forty percent of funds allocated by the Government of Sri Lanka last year to implement several development projects in Jaffna have not been spent primarily due to letharg...
US cement company Suwannee American Cement, a subsidiary of Brazil’s Votorantim conglomerate, expects to report sales volumes of 680,000t in 2004, exceeding by 70% initial...
In 2004, the Mexican cement industry will raise its investments to US$322m, funds that will be channeled to increases production, capacity, maintenance and improvements in manag...
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