Semen Gresik predicts rise in production
State-owned PT Semen Gresik (SG), the country’s largest integrated cement producer, said domestic cement production was expected to grow by 10 percent this year on higher ...
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Mexico’s Cemex confronts US cement crunch
Cemex is expanding its infrastructure in the US, and hoping soon to step up exports to the country where demand is outpacing supply. On Wednesday, Cemex’s US subsidiary ...
UK – Waste burning in cement kilns under fire by incinerator group
As the Environment Agency is currently reviewing the Substitute Fuels Protocol (SFP) incinerator group Cleanaway has criticised the burning of waste in cement kilns, claiming it...
Cement price fixed at Dh220-340 per tonne
DUBAI - The UAE Contractors Association (UCA) in its efforts to protect the construction sector and fix the prices of cement manufactured by local companies, succeeded in signin...
Incinerator group critisises cement waste burn
The UK Cleanaway group claims that by allowing cement kilns to burn more hazardous wastes there is the risk of lowering environmental standards. Cleanaway’s warning came ...
Production expected to increase by 2.5Mt by End-2004, UAE
Cement production in the UAE is seen to increase by some 2.5 million tonnes by end-2004, industry sources have said.
Rising cement demand abroad set to boost exports this fiscal , India
Riding on the huge demand for cement abroad, cement exports during the current financial year are expected to exceed the 30 per cent growth it witnessed in 2003-04. The demand h...
Significant YoY profit drop for cement producer Holcim Slovakia
Producer of white and gray cement and concrete, Holcim Slovakia a.s. achieved revenues last year from the sale of its own products and services at the level of SKK 3.39bn, which...
Jiangxi Cement gets CNY120m loan from for production line, China
Jiangxi Wannianqing Cement Co Ltd said it has signed a contract for a CNY120m loan from a branch of China Construction Bank (CCB) in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi for ...
Gresik expects 15% rise, Indonesia
Indonesia’s biggest cement maker, PT Semen Gresik Tbk, saidits consolidated cement sales were expected to rise more than 15 per cent in 2004, after easing 3.2 per cent las...
Collomb says co’s German market still in decline, to rebound in H2
Lafarge chairman and former chief executive Bertrand Collomb said its US market rebound has continued, with further improvement in volume and pricing conditions, but Germany wil...
Cemex US new import terminal, Northern California
Cemex has announced that its United States subsidiary Cemex, Inc. has reached an agreement with Levin Enterprises to build a 1Mta Portland cement import terminal in Richmond, CA...
Indonesia – HeidelbergCement signs first Indonesian carbon finance deal
Indocement, part of the HeidelbergCement group, has signed an agreement with the World Bank-managed Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) regarding the sale of CO2 reduction certificates ...
Ste Genevieve gets air permit
Holcim received a permit Tuesday to build the nation’s largest cement plant on the banks of the Mississippi River.
UAE’s cement prices expect to drop
Cement prices in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are expected to drop from over US$6.8 per bag to as low as US$4.6-3 dollars following a settlement made by the UAE Contractors As...
Fortune seals merger with unit Premier Cement
Fortune Cement Corp. yesterday said it had completed a merger with wholly owned unit Premier Cement Corp. The merger paved the way for the consolidation of the accounts of Premi...
Chilanga Cement, ZCC strategise on how to reduce prices
Chilanga Cement Plc and the Zambia Competition Commission (ZCC) have appointed six distributors in Lusaka to supply cement in a bid to stabilise the prices of the commodity.
Israeli wall with Egyptian cement
The Palestinian Legislative Council is scheduled to hold a meeting in Ramallah on Wednesday to discuss the latest scandal in the Palestinian Authority regarding the import of ...
USA – Holcim clear last major hurdle for Ste Genevieve works.
After five years of clearing the legal terrain to building its plant in St Genevieve County, Holcim received the required air pollution permit from the Missouri Department of Na...
Markets continue to fall
The firmer trend that started to push up Capesize rates last week continued throughout most of the week however ended on a weaker note. The Panamax market remained similar to la...
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