Anti-dumping duty imposed on Chinese cement
Jamaica’s Anti-Dumping and Subsidies Commission (ADSC) imposed an antidumping duty of 89.8% on cement imports from China, the Jamaica Gleaner reported. The duties will ta...
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Amnesty wants Israeli wall inquiry
Amnesty International has called on the Government to investigate links between Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH) and the construction of Israel’s controversial security fen...
Fortune Cement upgrading plant
Fortune Cement Corp, a unit of Republic Cement in the Philippines, has allocated P700 million to improve facilities. Renato C. Sunico, Fortune Cement chairman, said the amount ...
Cimpor plans Indian acquisition?
In what could signal another step forward in the consolidation of the Indian cement sector, Cimpor has appointed merchant bankers HSBC Securities and KPMG to identify acquisitio...
Japan cement importer incurs P37.8 million in unpaid duties
A Japanese cement importer who had questioned the Department of Trade and Industry’s decision to impose safeguard duties on imported cement before the Supreme Court has ac...
Qatar’s construction industry, scrambling to meet Asian Games deadlines
In April work on government-driven projects linked to the 15th Asian Games was forced to a halt for the second time in six months owing to a scarcity of cement in the local mark...
Union Cement new kiln line, UAE
The board of directors of UAE Ras al-Khaimah cement manufacturer Union Cement approved on June 13, 2004 a proposal to install a new kiln with an annual capacity of 2.5Mt. The mo...
Akmenes Cementas income increase, Lithuania
AB Akmenes Cementas, Lithuania’s only cement producer, announced that its five-month income reached 33.5m litas (EUR9.7m), a boost of almost 29 per cent from the correspon...
Rinker buys Florida premix company
Rinker Group Ltd announced that its US subsidiary Rinker Materials Corporation has expanded into the fast growing Florida Panhandle region with the acquisition of RMC Group plc’...
Five month demand at 19.4Mt, Spain
Cement demand in Spain stood at 19.4Mt in the first five months of 2004, up 2.4 per cent YoY, Spanish Cement Makers Association OFICEMEN have said.
Switzerland – Holcim reports on progress
With the publication of its second sustainability report “Building on the foundations”, Swiss cement maker Holcim is reporting on its progress during the past two years in a num...
Markets struggle
While the first figures on the effects of Chinese government credit restriction measures are published showing a very light decrease of their industrial output, dry bulk markets...
Cement Shares Take A Hit
Indian Cement stocks have taken a heavy beating in June with the onset of monsoons. Industry majors such as Gujarat Ambuja, ACC and Grasim Industries have plunged up to 15 per c...
Aggregate Industries sees $7 to $8 on US cement prices
Aggregate Industries has seen better first half activity in its US business this year, thanks to less adverse weather conditions but there has also been an underlying improvemen...
NCC withdraws from the Swedish market
The Swedish-based construction group NCC, having sold its ready-mixed concrete operations in Finland, the Baltic states, Poland, Norway and the St. Petersburg area of Russia as ...
Egypt export sales
Egypt ranked second among cement exporters to Spain in 2003 with about 1.441Mt, it was reported on June 13, 2004. Egypt was preceded only by Turkey and was followed by Greece, ...
Cemex looks for more growth
Cemex forecasts 1H04 Ebitda will grow 15 per cent to US$1.2bn and revenue will increase six per cent to US$3.7bn compared to the same period last year, the company announced. I...
USA – Ash Grove Resources : meeting fly ash demand
In a joint venture with Fly Ash Management, Topeka (KS), US cement maker Ash Grove Cement has launched Ash Grove Resources (AGR). The new company is to supply supplementary ceme...
Zuari Cements workers prepare for strike
Demanding that the management of Zuari Cements Ltd re-induct six workers who were expelled for their alleged attack on management, over 350 permanent workers of the Cement facto...
Senior officials inspect cement unit
The Vice-Chairman of India Cements Limited (ICL), DL Subrahmanyam, and other senior officials on Sunday inspected the cement factory at Chilamakur in Yerraguntla mandal and beg...
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