June cement despatches dip
Cement despatches of cement majors Grasim Industries and Gujarat Ambuja Cements have dipped in June due to monsoon, while despatches of UltraTech Cemco have increased marginally...
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Indonesian cement consumption up
Indonesia’s domestic consumption of cement reached 11.244Mt during the first five months of 2004, an increase of 8.7 per cent from 10.321Mt for the same period last year, ...
Cemex sees 2004 EBITDA up 11%
Cemex expects an 11% surge in its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization this year as the global economic growth picks up and cost-cutting initiatives se...
Chilanga Cement - more local sales
Zambia Consumers Association (ZACA) executive secretary, Muyunda Ililonga, has challenged Chilanga Cement to satisfy the demand for cement on the local market. And Chilanga Cem...
Bolivian cement initiative
Bolivia’s President Carlos Mesa and the country’s cement producers have developed a three-pronged strategy to promote the use of domestic products and inject funding...
Siam City goes low-cost
Siam City Cement (SCCC) responded yesterday to its rivals’ constant price-cutting by introducing its first low-cost product (reports The Nation) Chantana Sukumanont, execu...
OCI signs Algeria cement plant loan
Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries said its wholly owned subsidiary Algerian Cement Company signed a US$112m loan to build a second production line in Algeria. Orasc...
Loan to ACC, Algeria
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has awarded a new loan, for US$12m, to ACC (Algerian Cement Company), to fund the extension of a cement works near M’Sila, 240 km south-...
Colacem obtains Tunisian funds
Italian cement maker Colacem will receive funds for some Euro 18m from a group of Tunisian banks for restructuring in the Tunis plant of its controlled cement company Les Ciment...
Goltas Cimento buys RMC plant
Turkish cement producer Goltas Cimento has bought a ready-mixed concrete plant from Turkish cement manufacturer and retailer Adana Cimento and ready-mixed concrete company Oyak ...
Saudi Southern Province Cement
The cement output of Saudi cement producer Southern Province Cement (SPC) rose to 987,000t for the first three months of 2004 from 883,000t in the corresponding period of 2003. ...
Cement sales fall
Cement sales in Chile totalled 1.57Mt in the first five months of 2004, a 2.8 per cent decrease from sales of 1.61Mt in the same period in 2003, according to a report by a Chile...
Cementos Portland Valderrivas posts profit increase
Cementos Portland Valderrivas, part of Cementos Portland Valderrivas SA, generated net profits of just under Euro148.5m in 2003, a 30.5 per cent increase on the 2002 figure. Ce...
Buzzi Unicem plans further share purchase
Buzzi Unicem, the Italian cement and concrete group, is reported to be planning to increase its stake in Dyckerhoff, the German building materials group. It will finance the pu...
Cement prices in UAE fixed
The price of bulk cement in the UAE was fixed at a maximum of 280 UAE dirhams (US$76.2) a tonne and the price of a bag at 15 dirhams (US$4.08), following an agreement reached by...
Kesoram plans to raise cement capacity
Kesoram Industries, the BK Birla group flagship, plans to invest Rs 350 crore to raise the capacity of its cement plant. ’We want to increase capacity in cement . We are ...
Boy 9, to face death penalty?
Michigan, US: A 9-year-old boy is expected to face a judge next week for allegedly defacing a concrete floor with his bicycle, according to local Detroit news reports. The alleg...
Indian cost-cutting measures
For local cement companies innovation may be the key to cost competitiveness. Hence, larger cement companies such as Grasim and Gujarat Ambuja are seen to be shifting to a numbe...
The view from Kuwait
Most Kuwaitis supported the war of liberating Iraq from the regime of Saddam Hussein. However, in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the general American confusi...
Fire claims eight lives
Eight workers were burnt alive and more than nine were seriously wounded when furnace oil system at the Saadi Cement Factory in the Hattar industrial area, Pakistan, caught fire...
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