Cementir more than doubles
Cementir’s first half turnover rose by 6.3 per cent to €151.1m, with the Italian operations contributing €99.5m, an increase of just 1.1 per cent while the sales value at Cement...
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Taiheiyo Cement cuts domestic output
Taiheiyo Cement Corp. has lowered domestic cement output because of rising production costs stemming from a jump in prices of coal, the main fuel used in making cement. Coupled ...
Nordea and Danske Bank set to rebuild FLS fortunes
Nordea and Danske Bank are set to help rebuild the fortunes of FLS Industries, the Danish engineering group and once held in high esteem by the country’s industrialists.No...
Lafarge signs wind farm contract
Lafarge SA said its 50 pct-owned Lafarge Maroc unit signed a contract with La Compagnie du Vent to build a windfarm to provide renewable energy for the group’s new cement ...
End to Mexican tariffs?
Many US Companies would like to see the duties removed from Mexican products to ease shortages. The US construction industry, suffering from a cement shortage that is raising b...
Datong Cement Co 1H figures
Shenzhen-listed Datong Cement Co has reported earnings per share of 0.025 yuan for the first half of 2004 ended June 30, up from the 0.02 yuan for the same period of 2003. The c...
Cement merchants offload stocks
UAE Cement suppliers have in recent days started offloading stocks they had earlier built up in anticipation of higher prices. With imports set to flow in after a deal hammered ...
Circle Cement to upgrade
CIRCLE Cement Limited has embarked on a plant refurbishment programme in efforts aimed at bolstering its market competitiveness as well as enhancing production capacity. The com...
Ararat exports
Export volume of Araratcement (Armenia) in seven months of 2004 grew almost 14 times and amounted to 1.430 billion AMD, as against 10.273 million AMD in the same period of 2003....
Garadagh sets new prices
Garadagh Cement declared the new recommended prices of cement for the attention of the dealers. Azer-press reports that the recommended prices in Baku are AzM 18 thousand per st...
New grinding mill
Gujarat Ambuja Cement Ltd (GACL), the fourth-largest cement producer in India, will be setting up a 1.2Mt grinding unit at Dadri in Western Uttar Pradesh with an investment of a...
Threat of nationwide transporters’ strike
Cement prices are likely to go up by between Rs 10 and Rs 15 across south India because of the threat of a nationwide transporters’ strike from August 21. The end of the m...
Cement makers drive export volumes
Even as the export demand for cement has risen significantly in recent months from West Asian countries, only the coast-based cement companies like Gujarat Ambuja Cements (GACL)...
Cement, steel prices up
Cebu, Philippines: Due to the increases in fuel prices, the cost of construction materials, including cement and steel bars, has also gone up. The Department of Trade and Indust...
Loma Negra’s price too high for Cemex?
Cemex is never scared to shell out cash for acquisitions but a $1 billion price ticket for Argentina’s biggest cement maker Loma Negra is seen as too high. Analysts said ...
Five commercial banks grant credit
Five commercial banks have signed a 1,830 billion VND credit contract with the Viet Nam Construction and Import-Export Corporation (Vinaconex) for the construction of Cam Pha ce...
Lawsuit against two companies
A group of Palestinians have filed a lawsuit at Nablus court against Toraify and Baraka companies charging them of selling cement to Zionist companies, which in turn used the Eg...
Syria’s cement market rising
Syria’s consumption of cement is expected to reach 6.4Mt this year, according to Hassan Beydoun, Director-General of OMRAN the state-owned company affiliated to the Minist...
Independents crowded out – claim
The four major cement producers: France’s Lafarge, Switzerland’s Holcim, Germany’s Heidelberg Cement AG and Cemex -- are aggressively pushing independent trade...
Indonesian cement gains
State-owned firm, PT Semen Gresik, the country’s largest integrated cement producer, has projected that the cement industry will fully recover next year on the back of rob...
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