DTI set for Supreme appeal
Saying the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) decision to nullify safeguard tariffs on imported cement undermined the government’s role in ensuring a "level playing field", the...
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Dhaka For BIS Waiver
Eyeing the land-locked north-eastern states in India to market cement manufactured in Bangladesh, Dhaka has mounted pressure on India for waiving the mandatory Bureau of Industr...
Cementos Molins launches bid
Spanish Catalan cement manufacturer Cementos Molins and subsidiary Cementos Molins Industrial have launched a bid for 43 per cent of shares in the company worth 278.84m euros. ...
Jaypee to set up cement plant in HP
Jaypee group is setting up a 2.5Mt cement plant in Himachal Pradesh. The new project, estimated to cost about Rs 600 crore, will be among the largest-capacity cement plants in ...
Ashaka Cement denies labour lay-off
Managing director of Ashaka Cement, Alhaji Mohammed Daggash, yesterday said the company has not commenced workers retrenchment. Daggash, in an interview with newsmen at Ashaka,...
Royalty on mining production
The royalty on mining production proposed by Chile’s government to the Congress will not only affect copper miners, but also cement manufacturers since production costs wi...
Ultra-high-strength silica fume cement
Mitsubishi Materials and Ube Industries have announced their joint development of a ultrahigh strength silica fume cement called Silica Fume Cement Super. By increasing the quan...
Eastern Cement earns SR157m
Eastern Cement Co. has gained net profit of more than SR 157m, out of which SR 18m are from sale of the company’s investments. The six month profit are 19% more compared t...
Cement demand in Spain rises
Cement demand in Spain stood at 23.87Mt for the first half of 2004, up 3.4 per cent year-on-year, Spanish Cement Makers Association OFICEMEN said on July 14, 2004. Spanish ceme...
Ash Grove to build US$250m plant
Ash Grove said this week it has struck a deal to build a US$250m plant less than 40 miles northeast of Las Vegas on land owned by the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians. Ash Grove Ce...
Court voids import sanctions – Taiheiyo victory
Protective tariffs imposed by the Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on imported grey cement were voided by the Supreme Court (SC) on the grounds that these safeg...
Cement truck kills 17
A wedding ceremony turns into tragedy as cement truck filled with full cargo of bags rolled backwards into the wedding party killing 17 guests and injuring 12 others earlier thi...
Saudi’s Yanbu Cement
Yanbu Cement Co. announced that its first half net income grew by 16 percent to SR 214.3m (US$57.14m) from the same period a year earlier. The company reported its first quarter...
Titan America fired up
South Florida construction companies and developers are counting on the opening of Titan America’s mammoth new plant to catch supply up to demand for cement. The US$220m ...
ACC plans captive power units
The Associated Cement Companies (ACC) has targeted annual cost savings of over Rs 100 crore by setting up three captive power plants. The plants are to be set up at Tikaria in U...
Ron Pearse on Boral
Rod Pearse, the 57 year-old head of Australian building materials giant Boral has successfully led the group for the last four years and under his leadership, Boral has doubled...
Rocket-style take-off
Despite the announcement that Chinese industrial production is feeling the first effects of the credit squeeze organised by local authorities to avoid overheating, dry bulk mark...
Cement joint venture to invest in production expansion
Ha Noi (VNA)-The Nghi Son Cement Company, a joint venture between the Viet Nam Cement Corporation and a Japanese partner, is expected to submit to the Government for approval it...
Polish Grupa Atlas gets approval for EUR112m project, Poland
Polish building materials manufacturer Grupa Atlas was granted a permission to construct a cement plant, a mine and a lime-processing plant on the territory of Lodz Special Econ...
Producers to appeal ruling on tariff, Philippines
An umbrella group of Philippine cement producers said that it will appeal a recent Supreme Court ruling that struck down a special tariff on imports imposed by the government.
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