USA – Essroc downsizes but keeps environmental promise
Essroc is reconsidering the scale of its Plant 1 upgrade, scheduled for completion in 2005. While company officials have released few details about the revised plans, they have ...
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USA – Essroc downsizes but keeps environmental promise
Essroc is reconsidering the scale of its Plant 1 upgrade, scheduled for completion in 2005. While company officials have released few details about the revised plans, they have ...
Infrastructure growth rate doubles nine per cent in India
Buoyed by the impressive performance of the cement, electricity, petroleum refinery and crude sectors, infrastructure growth doubled to 9 per cent in April 2004 from 4.5 per cen...
Thai Construction material makers warned against price increases
Construction material manufacturers have been cautioned against any plans to raise prices in response to rising oil costs.
Italy Italcementi develops Eco Cement
Italian cement producer and distributor Italcementi has developed special ecological cement to reduce the nitrogen oxide emissions in big cities, the company said on May 25, 200...
Votorantim expands abroad
The cement division of the Brazilian Votorantim, Votorantim Cimentos may increase the investments in the US and Canada to US$1.8bn until 2007, intending to double turnover in co...
Suez Cement net jumps
Suez Cement has released FY03 results ending December, in which net income jumped a significant 3x to come in at LE153m, versus LE49.3m, recorded in the comparable period last y...
Downward pressures deepens
Huge import stockpiles in China, linked with less port congestion, and the first effects of credit tightening measures taken by the government have badly affected the markets th...
Italy - Italcementi develops eco cement
Italcementi announced on 25 May at the Milan congress of the Italian Federation of Scientific and Technical Associations that it had developed a special type of ecological cemen...
Italy - Italcementi develops eco cement
Italcementi announced on 25 May at the Milan congress of the Italian Federation of Scientific and Technical Associations that it had developed a special type of ecological cemen...
Heracles pretax profit up 137 per cent
Greek cement producer Heracles said on Monday its first-quarter group pretax profit rose 137 percent to 14 million euros, thanks to better weather than last year and rising prof...
Polish cement sales advance
Figures released by the Polish Cement & Lime Association show that cement deliveries in April were in excess of 1.5m tonnes and 71% higher than during the same month last year. ...
File closed on bid by CRH
Egypt’s Misr Beni Suef Cement (MBSC) said on Monday its file on a possible takeover by Irish construction company CRH Plc was "completely finished", quashing rumours of a ...
First quarter cement sales up
Cement sales in Bolivia grew to 275,986t in the first quarter, 13 per cent higher than the 244,154t recorded in the corresponding period in 2003, Correo del Sur reported. The l...
Melón posts ripe Q1 profits
Chilean cement company Empresas Melón posted an 8.37bn-peso (US$13.4mn) consolidated net profit in the first quarter, up 17.6% from 1Q03, the company said in a statement to the ...
Cemex thinks US cement tariff will go
Mexican cement producer Cemex is confident that the US government will eliminate anti-dumping duties against Mexican cement imports in September, El Norte reported. Cemex is co...
TPI Polene Creditors approve debt buyback
Creditors of TPI Polene PCL have agreed in principle to let the Thai cement maker buy back as much as $110 million in debt, a TPI Polene executive and one of its creditors said....
UAE Gulf Cement to invest
UAE cement maker Gulf Cement Company, based in the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, will invest between US$80m to build a clinker plant in Ras al-Khaimah, it was reported on May 25, 2...
Adelaide Brighton: slightly ahead
Adelaide Brighton Ltd managing director Mr Mark Chellew told the annual meeting today that 2004 demand had begun slightly ahead of plan. "We have good reason to be satisfied wi...
Cement firms on shifting sands
China’s attempts to dampen investment in the cement industry may foreshadow a shake-out in the sector, industry observers say. As supercharged economic growth boosts ceme...
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