HeidelbergCement to buy out Anneliese minority
HeidelbergCement is offering one of its own shares plus a cash payment of €19.00 for every two Anneliese shares, with a cash alternative of €27.50 per Anneliese share for the ou...
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Mary Nour crew given Mexican police welcome
Last week, five crew members from "MN" were robbed by the local police, according to an official compliant by the Master of the Mary Nour, Captain Dahl, a Norwegian national. Ap...
CIMA seeks partners for proposed alliance
CEMENT Industries of Malaysia Bhd (CIMA) wants to form strategic alliances with interested parties in the ready-mixed concrete business, said managing director Datuk Rosli Shari...
Sagar Cements plans to hive off grinding unit
SAGAR Cements Ltd (SCL) is planning to hive-off its grinding unit at Bayyavaram in Anakapalle taluk of Visakhapatnam district. The grinding unit is engaged in producing cement ...
New chairman for Egyptian ASEC Cement
Mohammed Galal Yakout has been named chairman and managing director of Egypt’s ASEC Cement Co, part of the Egyptian-Swiss industrial group Arab Swiss Engineering Company (...
Boost to GSB clampdown
Ghana Standard Board’s (GSB) move to crack down on cement retailers who alter the weight of bagged cement on the local market received a boost yesterdayy when the Ghana Ce...
Lafarge provides treatment for flood victims
Lafarge Surma Cement Limited organised a post-flood medical camp near its project site at Chhatak in Sunamganj on Sunday, says a press release. The two-day camp provided general...
Moldova’s Rebel Dnestr region sells plant
Moldova’s self-proclaimed Transdniestria region sold the cement plant in the town of Ribnita to Hungarian construction company Tegep for $1.5 million (1.2 million euro) af...
Tax office investigating Cemento Nacional
Ecuador’s tax office SRI is investigating tax declarations of the country’s leading cement producer Cemento Nacional, local paper El Comercio reported. In 2003, Cem...
Committee meet on Dundee construction
A Dundee cement manufacturer has begun putting together the additional equipment needed so it can burn a number of industrial wastes and sludges within the next six months. Holc...
French Vicat Registers 76.5 Mln Euro Net Profit H1 2004
French building materials supplier Vicat SA reported a net profit of 76.5 mln euro ($93.7 mln) for the first half of 2004, up 15.3 pct year-on-year. The company’s earning...
Egyptian Misr Cement Qena H1
Egyptian cement producer Misr Cement Qena reported a net profit of 36.51 mln Egyptian pounds ($5.9 mln/4.8 mln euro) for the first half of 2004, against 2.79 mln pounds ($447,00...
DJ Peru’s Aug Cement Sales Rise
Peru’s overall cement sales in August rose 16.9% to 405,095t from the same month a year before, with Cementos Lima SA leading the way, the National Association of Cement P...
Cement prices set to rise
Retail prices for cement are likely to soar after industry leader, Bamburi Cement, announced a price increase. The move, which took effect on Monday, is yet another blow to the ...
Chilanga Increases Cement Price By 6%
Chilanga Cement Plc has increased the price of cement with immediate effect. Chilanga Cement managing director Ian Coulter yesterday said that the company had decided to increa...
Surely some mistake?
The cost of Cement in Mexico is 15% lower than in the United States despite differences in the two countries’ distribution and marketing practices, reported the director o...
Cima looking to set up new cement plant
Cement Industries of Malaysia Bhd (CIMA), the Perlis-based national cement producer, is looking at leveraging on the increasing demand for cement from Singapore by building a ne...
Australia’s Boral says date
Australia’s biggest building products company, Boral said on Thursday that court action to block its A$867 million ($606 million) takeover bid for Adelaide Brighton Ltd (A...
Closure of stone crushers in RAK
RAS AL KHAIMAH — The RAK Environment Protection and Industrial Development Commission (EPIDC) has ordered the closure of two rock crushers after they were found not conforming t...
Cimpor first half profits fall in the regions
Cimpor’s turnover for the first six months of the year moved ahead by 3.7% to €678.4m while the operating profit at the EBITDA level fell by 7.5% to €228.8m. The decline in the...
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