USA – Ash Grove to run tyre burning trial
It appears that Ash Grove Cement Company will be allowed to run a 60-day trial burning scrap tyres at its plant in Omaha, Nebraska. This follows a three-month research programme...
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L&T cement business demerger
Larsen and Toubro said a formal scheme for demerging its cement business would come into effect from Friday 14th May 2004. Under the proposal, L&T would separate its 16.5Mt ceme...
VNCC on price control
The Viet Nam Cement Corporation (VNCC) said it has had no intention of raising cement prices for the time being. However its Vice Director General Le Van Chung told Viet Nam New...
Andhra’s mini-cement plants
Mini-cement plants in Andhra Pradesh, India recorded a growth of 14.23 per cent in despatches during the financial year 2003-04. The despatches inclusive of supplies to other st...
Strong start to 2004 at Holcim
Holcim has reported a good first quarter performance from all its geographical regions, with the strongest volume improvements coming from Europe and North America, where the fi...
Boral’s cement bid still alive
Boral has refused to concede defeat in its $1.07 billion takeover bid for Adelaide Brighton, defying the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission by keeping its offer on t...
Cement Firm’s Objection Questioned
Rio Grande’s Tijeras plant in New Mexico faces stricter environmental pollution control legislation. Local public hearings in Bernalillo County have discussed the proposal...
Barloworld’s profit soars
Barloworld, the listed international brand management company that yesterday reported a 77 percent jump in headline earnings a share, is poised to establish a foothold in the po...
Spanish Cementos Portland
Spanish cement maker Cementos Portland Valderrivas SA, posted a net profit of Euro 20.3m for the first quarter of 2004, a 2.0 per cent year-on-year decrease, the company reporte...
Argentine Juan Minetti - small profit noted
Argentine cement maker Juan Minetti, owned by Holcim, and the second largest group after Loma Negra, posted a net profit of 28.75 mln Argentine pesos ($9.73m) for the first quar...
Qatar National Cement Co
Qatar’s largest cement producer Qatar National Cement Company (QNCC) expects to receive three shipments of cement by the end of May 2004 to cover the continuing shortfall ...
Reduced costs help Polpaico
Reduced operating, administrative and sales, and financial costs helped Chile’s Cemento Polpaico post a 4.77-peso (US$7.48m) consolidated net profit in the first quarter, ...
Cementos Bío Bío posts US$8.48m
Chile’s Cementos Bío Bío posted a 5.409bn-peso (US$8.48m) consolidated net profit in the first quarter, up 13.5 per cent from 1Q03, Cementos said in a statement to the cou...
Shiva Cement’s search for partner
For the second time in four years that the Rourkela-based Shiva Cement Ltd, India, has failed to find a strategic partner despite several attempts made by its merchant banker. ...
ACC sees volume growth
India’s top cement maker Associated Cement Companies Ltd expects volume growth in the year to March 2005 to top an industry average of eight per cent, a senior official sa...
Fight over AdBri looming
Following reports yesterday that the Australia’s competition watchdog ACCC was planning to block Boral’s US$862m takeover bid for rival Adelaide Brighton, with ACCC...
Turkey Exports 600,000t to Iraq
Turkey exported 600,000t of cement to Iraq in 2003, up from 40,000t in 2002, Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Association chairman Adnan Ignebekcili said on May 10, 2004. Th...
Cementir ready for Turkish growth
Francesco Caltagirone, the chairman of the Italian cement group Cementir, yesterday told the group’s shareholders that it is interested in further acquisitions in Turkey. ...
Russian cement manoeuvres
The Metallurg aluminium holding company (the Leningrad region) has sold its-owned Pikalevo cement plant. The Inteco company, owned by the Moscow mayor’s wife Yelena Baturi...
Holcim Schmidheiny in Capital Hike
Swiss industrialist Thomas Schmidheiny, the single biggest shareholder of cement company Holcim, will participate in a planned capital increase, his spokesman said Tuesday. "Mr...
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