Colacem agrees Tunisian investment
Italian cement maker Colacem SpA and Simest, the financial institution for development and promotion of Italian business abroad, signed an agreement concerning investments in a ...
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St Lawrence Cement 2Q
Second-quarter net income rose 25% at St. Lawrence Cement Inc, reflecting higher sales volumes and price increases.
Another brick in the wall
The row over the Israeli border barrier and the debate over the various cement sources involved in its construction continues to reverberate and evens threatens to topple some o...
Pacasmayo H1 profits
Peru’s second largest cement producer Cementos Pacasmayo posted an 11.3% increase in net profits to PEN31m (US$9.07m) for the first half of 2004 compared to PEN27.9m in 20...
Mexican import stand-off turns nasty
Refused entry to the port of Tampico following a court order stating that the MV Mary Nour will block the channel and thus impede Cemex cement distribution channels, the ships a...
Shell Cements Global Supply Deal With Holcim
Shell International Petroleum has signed a global contract with Holcim, one of the world’s leading cement suppliers, for the supply of lubricants to its operations in 16 c...
Iran To Import
Iran will import the entire 1.5 million tonnes of cement that it has planned for the current Iranian year to March 31, 2005, Iranian Minister of Industries and Mines Eshaq Jahan...
Chile H1 cement shipments fall
Cement shipments in Chile fell 0.4% to 1.85Mt in the first semester compared to 1H03, according to information from the country’s cement and concrete institute (ICH). The...
Votorantim expands in concrete
The Brazilian cement manufacturer Votorantim Cimentos has acquired the Ceara based concrete producer Britap through the controlled Engemix. The concrete segment accounts for aro...
Ssangyong returns to black
Ssangyong Corp, a South Korean general trading company, said today that it swung to a net profit of 10.19 billion won (US$8.72 million) in the first half, a 214.2 per cent surge...
St Lawrence Cement plant debate
Representatives of St. Lawrence Cement and the group Friends of Hudson offered diametrically opposing views at a forum Wednesday on the potential effects a proposed cement manuf...
YTL Cement may buy more
YTL Cement Bhd said it may buy more shares in Perak-Hanjoong Simen Sdn Bhd from existing shareholders if they offer to sell their shares. YTL Cement currently holds a 32% stake...
Strong prices boost profits
Two of India’s top three cement groups reported on Wednesday forecast-beating profit growth for the last quarter, as prices revived in the world’s second-biggest mar...
Texas rain dampens Hanson performance
Strong performances in Australia and the US aggregates businesses were offset by weaker profitability in the British operations as well as in the North American building product...
Vulcan up by 18.7%
Turnover for the first six months grew by 7.5% to US$1,433.8m and the EBITDA advanced by 9.0% to US$279.5m. The aggregates-based business generated a turnover 7.5% ahead at US$1...
Turkish Mardin Cimento to invest
Mardin Cimento will invest 2.8 trln Turkish lira (US$1.9m) in modernisation, it was reported on July 26, 2004. The company has received an investment incentive certificate from...
Dniprotsement modernises grinding section
The Dniprotsement company (Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine) has modernized cement grinding mills No 1 and No 3 of cement grinding shop. Reconstruction of cemen...
Qatari QS makes certification for imported Cement obligatory
The Qatar General Organization for Standards and Metrology (QS) has made obligatory the standard certifications for the cement imported into Qatar, it was reported on July 27, 2...
Saudi Cement Co Q1 2004
The cement output of Saudi cement producer Saudi Cement Company (SCC) rose to 1.293Mt for the first three months of 2004 from 1.088Mt in the corresponding period of 2003. Local...
Saudi Qassim Cement
Saudi cement producer Qassim Cement Company (QCC) posted a net profit of 125.8 mln Saudi riyals (US$33.5m) for the first half of 2004, up by 1.5 per cent year-on-year. QCC&rsqu...
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