Pakistan Steel exports slag to UAE
Pakistan Steel exported 30,000t granulated slag to Sharjah UAE as raw material for cement industry, and another similar quantity of material would be shipped in next few days. A...
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Holcim shareholder committed to keeping stake
Holcim’s leading shareholder Thomas Schmidheiny - one of Switzerland’s richest men - is committed to keeping his stake in the world’s second largest cement mak...
Baltsem Leaves Ukrtsement
Ukraine’s largest producer of cement, the Baltsem plant (Balakliia, Kharkiv region) has left the Ukrainian Association of Enterprises and Organizations of the Cement Indus...
Greek Alpha Beton Reports
Greek Nimatemporiki-Alpha Beton, the company which emerged from the merger of textile company Nimatemporiki and concrete maker Alpha Beton, closed 2003 with a pre-tax profit of ...
PSP Engineering sees losses rise
PSP Engineering, which took control of production at the bankrupt Prerovske strojirny engineering firm last year, posted an audited loss of CZK 93.4 mln in 2003, up from a loss ...
UAE Emirates Cement factory to raise output
UAE cement maker Emirates Cement Factory, located in al-Ain, eastern UAE, plans to raise its production to about 4Mta from the current 950,000tpa, it was reported on June 14, 20...
Strabag may open cement plant by 2008
Hungarian construction holding Strabag may open a Ft27bn (US$131m) cement plant with a capacity of 1Mt, by 2008. A final decision on whether the project will go ahead will be ta...
Moroccan cement growth
Sources in the Moroccan Ministry of Industry and Commerce estimate the cement consumption in Morocco to grow as high as 12.65Mt by 2008. The same sources attribute this cement c...
Grasim offers to acquire 30% stake
Grasim Industries has made an open offer for acquiring a 30 per cent stake in Ultratech Cemco. The company came into existence after the demerger of Larsen & Toubro’s ceme...
Cement factories deny crisis claims
Cyprus’s two cement producers factories yesterday rubbished reports of a cement crisis, saying the island¹s annual production was more than enough to cover the needs of th...
Cement orders from UAE continue
Pakistani cement manufacturers say they continue to get import enquiries from companies in the UAE and Qatar. ³Our cement consignments are going to UAE regularly and there is a...
Cement price manipulation?
The Malaysian Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs will launch an investigation into allegations that the prices of cement are being manipulated by unscrupulous trans...
Spanish Cementos Rezola
Cementos Rezola and concrete producer Hormigones y Minas, part of Spanish cement group Financiera y Minera (FyM), owned by Italian cement group Italcementi, posted a combined tu...
Chia Hsin Cement 2004 net rising
The 2004 profit of Chia Hsin Cement Greater China Holding Corp is expected to rise 30 percent over 2003 despite China’s measures to cool its economy, said the firm’s...
Jordan Cement Factories
Jordan Cement Factories Company (JCFC) has started works to restore the cement exports unit in Aqaba, southern Jordan, at the cost of over $1.0m, it was reported on June 10, 200...
Fancesa can grow without Soboce
Bolivian cement producer Fancesa can expand its business without merging with larger competitor Soboce, according to its general manager Gonzalo Arce, Correo del Sur newspaper r...
Cement shortage not raising price yet
A US cement shortage in the south has neither increased prices nor affected state- funded projects, but that will change if the product remains scarce, construction officials sa...
Illinois officials raise concerns
Illinois environmental officials expressed concerns Wednesday about air pollution from a massive new cement plant proposed for the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. Illin...
Amnesty slams CRH for Israeli wall work
Amnesty International, has condemned CRH for its involvement in the construction of a wall cutting off Palestinian land in Israel. CRH owns a 25 per cent stake in the Mashav Gro...
Baltsem to increase cement production
Ukraine’s largest producer of cement, the Baltsem plant (Balakliia, Kharkiv region), intends to increase cement production by 16.3 per cent or 0.246Mt in 2004 compared wit...
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