Thai Goverment spending favours contractors
Thailand’s major construction contractors are set to benefit largely from the government’s plan to spend over a trillion baht in mega infrastructure projects in the ...
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Aveng calls for more spend
Aveng, South Africa, calls for more spend on infrastructure Trade and Industry Editor SA’s infrastructure is starting to creak, with government not yet spending enough to ...
Mary Nour writes to the president
The Mexican based Commercio para el Desarrollo Mexicano (CDM), heavily involved in the Mary Nour import case has published a paid-for letter in the national Mexican press statin...
TCL sends aid to Grenada
Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) plans to ship on an ongoing basis several tonnes of cement to hurricane-torn Grenada but, to meet the immediate needs of the population, some $20,0...
Day-long fire at Dragon
An industrial fire that broke out Sunday at Dragon Cement’s plant on Route 1 in Thomaston burned for much of the day before firefighters returned to their stations. Thomas...
GeoLogistics wins Cemex contract
GeoLogistics Corp, a leading transportation and logistics company, based in California, has been officially selected as the single-source global logistics service provider for C...
Cement Demand in Spain
Cement demand in Spain stood at 31.91Mt for the first eight months of 2004, up 3.52 per cent year-on-year, Spanish Cement Makers Association Oficemen said on September 13, 2004....
Cimpor 1H down
Cimpor-Cimentos de Portugal SGPS said Monday that increased export activity and lower prices for its products in Brazil helped trim consolidated net profit 3.8% in the first hal...
Mangalam Cement cement production
Mangalam Cement Ltd., has informed the Mumbai Stock Exchange that by making some alternate arrangement the cement production of the second unit of the Company namely "Neer Shree...
HeidelCement targets price hikes
Cement maker HeidelbergCement aims to raise German cement prices to Euro70 per tonne in the medium-term from a current level that is around 10 to 20 euros lower, its head said o...
Portugal Cimpor invests
Portuguese cement company Cimpor announced on September 13, 2004 it had invested Euro17.8m in the
Dyckerhoff’s Roentgen to quit
German cement maker Dyckerhoff AG said Monday its management board member Alexander Roentgen will leave the company at the end of the year to become Executive Director of RMC Gr...
Cemex Denies Semen Gresik Sale plan
Cemex SA de CV, owner of a 25% stake in Semen Gresik, denied it had given any approval to Indonesian government’s buy back proposal. "This is totally untrue," a s...
Local producers under pressure
South Africa may face a shortage of cement by 2007. SA’s leading producer, Barloworld subsidiary PPC Cement, recently brought forward its expansion plans, announcing last...
Buzzi Unicem’s first half cement volumes exceed 15Mt
The enlarged Buzzi Unicem increased cement sales by 2.3% in the first six month of the year to just over 15Mt while ready-mixed concrete deliveries were 2.8% higher at 7.3Mm3. ...
China to Step Up Lending Curbs
China’s government will step up its lending curbs and investment restrictions because industrial expansion by state companies has yet to be reined in sufficiently, Vice Pr...
Argentina Cement Sales up
The cement sales of Argentina in August 2004 expanded 19.3 per cent year-on-year to 514,380t, the association of Portland cement makers in Argentina said on September 9, 2004. ...
Holcim Romania Reshuffles Management
Holcim Romania, a unit of Swiss cement company Holcim, undergoes management changes as part of plans for further increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of operations by int...
Lafarge allowed to raise capital
The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has allowed the local units of French conglomerate Lafarge group to increase their capital stock as payment for liabilit...
New look for RMC
David Munro, the new chief executive, plans a fresh start for the ready-mix concrete maker after years of problems in Germany and the UK’s Rugby cement business – reports ...
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