Hercules Cement to reopen rail spur
Hercules Cement Co. plans to spend $750,000 to reconstruct a rail spur that will allow the Stockertown company to keep its kilns running as close to year-round as possible. "Wh...
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US builders urge Bush to drop Mexican cement tariffs
The nation’s home builders are urging the Bush administration to lift heavy duties on Mexican cement in the face of a shortage of building materials. A July survey by the...
Xinjiang Qingsong Cement Co
Shanghai-listed Xinjiang Qingsong Cement Co., Ltd has reported earnings per share of 0.079 yuan for the first half of 2004 ended June 30, down from 0.081 yuan for the same peri...
Siam Cement to up imports
Siam Cement Group plans to increase its construction material imports from China over the next five years to the tune of Bt6 billion as Thailand’s largest building-supplies make...
Argentine cement maker seeks buyer
Loma Negra, Argentina’s largest cement company, is putting itself up for sale in a deal that could attract global industry powerhouses, people familiar with the matter sai...
Relax its summertime
The heat that took the market up a little last week didn’t last long and rates started to level out or even decline over the last trading days. However the average daily r...
Lemminkäinen reports
In a positive construction environment and thanks to a less severe winter, the leading Finnish building materials and contracting group Lemminkäinen saw first half turnover impr...
Egyptian cement output
Egypt’s cement output stood at 2.502Mt in April 2004, down from 2.511Mt in March 2004, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said in a report. Local cement sales reached 2.295M...
Pushka Cement Plant
Shareholders of the Pushka cement and slate plant (Kramatorsk, Donetsk region) changed the name of the enterprise to Kramatorsk Cement Plant Pushka
Chilean Polpaico to use alternative fuels
Chilean cement manufacturer Polpaico has been enlarging the facilities of it Cerro Blanco plant in the Til Til region.
Mikhailovcement increases output
Output of Mikhailovcement exceeded 1Mt tons of cement in Jan-July 2004
Austerity measures upset Anhui Conch
Impressive first-half profit growth at Anhui Conch Cement, the mainland’s largest cement maker, is unlikely to continue for the rest of the year as the industry braces f...
Cement shortage flows slowly into St Louis, USA
A growing national cement shortage has reached St Louis, raising concerns about construction delays. But for now, no one seems to be pushing the panic button over the supply of ...
Supreme Court under pressure
Japanese-owned cement importer Southern Cross Cement Corp yesterday lashed out at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and local cement manufacturers,
James Hardie posts 13% jump
James Hardie Industries delivered a jump in first quarter profits, but warned its Australian sales could be hurt by negative sentiment from an ongoing inquiry into its asbestos ...
Industry anger at Carbon Trust snub
Industry bodies have slammed a Carbon Trust report, claiming they were not consulted on it. Last month, the Carbon Trust published a report on the European Emissions Trading S...
Gujarat Ambuja lines up global push
Sources familiar with the development told Business Standard, “The company is looking at either setting up manufacturing facilities in the Middle East or buying out some existin...
Holcim italia anti-trust
In April 2003, the Italian antitrust authority began investigations into market sharing agreements in the ready-mix concrete business in Lombardy. Holcim (Italia) SpA
Mary Nour – international trade implications
Still held up in the port of Altamira and unable to discharge its cargo of some 27,000t of imported Russian cement, the Mary Nour case is now beginning to attract international ...
Enviro rules UK
The UK Environment Agency has today (Tuesday) urged operators of installations with annual emissions of carbon dioxide of less than 500kt to
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