Gambling on more cement
A shortage of cement is leaving many in the construction industry concerned that it could slow down Southern Nevada’s explosive growth. Just since January, local ready mix...
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New plant for Holcim Romania
Holcim Romania officially inaugurated on Friday the most modern cement production line in Romania at Alesd plant, under a €70 million investment. The most ambitious investment p...
Lebanese cement plants exports to Iraq?
Leading Lebanese cement companies are expected to increase their exports the promising Iraqi market this year despite the security deterioration in some parts of the country. Fi...
Bargarh Cement India
Bargarh Cement (formerly Idcol Cement), ACC¹s recently acquired subsidiary, has generated Rs 64 crore revenues and a profit of around Rs 2.6 crore after its takeover. ACC had ta...
Aggregate Industries expands in Nevada
Having entered the Nevada market last November with the acquisition of Southern Nevada Paving, Aggregate Industries extended its interests in that area of the United States buy ...
OUTLOOK Holcim set for Q1 recovery
Holcim Ltd is to report a sharp increase in first quarter profits next Thursday compared to a very poor year-earlier period, with the cement maker’s business environment p...
Grasim to phase out all regional cement brands
Grasim Industries Ltd of the Aditya Birla Group has decided to gradually phase out all regional cement brands. It will focus on consolidating its cement business with its three ...
TXI in a hurry to cement new permit
The biggest industrial plant in North Texas is racing the calendar. If Dallas-based Texas Industries Inc wins, which means getting its permit changed by June 15, the cement mak...
Semapa head proposed as Portucel chairman
Portuguese cement company Semapa said on Thursday that its chairman has been proposed to take the same post at pulp and paper company Portucel. Semapa last month won a 30 percen...
More than just a holiday romance
A serious, academic-minded executive who’d never lived outside his native Vienna, Martin Kriegner had just turned 40 when Lafarge offered him a posting in Mumbai. To help ...
Opening of Holcim factory in Alesd
Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase told the opening ceremony on Friday of Holcim factory in Alesd, Bihor county, that local cement prices are a concern with Romanian authori...
Cement makers dispute cartel claim
Philippine Cement manufacturers want the Supreme Court to strike down a memorandum filed by Japanese-owned Southern Cross Cement Corp., which alleged that a cartel, or price col...
UK – Cauldon gets PSP go-ahead
Lafarge’s Cauldon works, Staffordshire, has been granted the approval of the Environment Agency (EA) to reduce its fossil fuel use by a quarter, replacing it with processed sewa...
French Vicat
French building materials supplier Vicat SA posted a Euro 125.67m net profit for 2003, a 4.2 per cent year-on-year increase, it was reported on May 6, 2004. Net profit per shar...
New plant for Azerbaijan?
While Garadagh Cement is planning to make its cement works larger, several overseas companies propose to build a new cement plant with the annual productivity of 1-1.5Mt in Azer...
Romanian Carpatcement Sees 2004 Sales Rise
Romania’s Carpatcement, a subsidiary of Germany’s cement producer HeidelbergCement, said on Thursday it expected its turnover to increase this year to some Euro 100m...
Vietnam Cement Association to increase prices after Q2
The Vietnam Cement Association (VCA) has made it clear that its members will be unable to maintain prices after the second quarter because of increasing input costs. For the mom...
HeidelbergCement narrows net Q1 loss
German building materials producer HeidelbergCement narrowed its net loss after minorities to Euro 58m for the first quarter of 2004 from Euro140m for the year-ago period, the c...
Pakistan cement sales drop in April
Cement sales volume has dropped nine per cent in April compared with the past month to 1.28Mt, according to data released here Thursday by the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers ...
UK – Baseline monitoring test results are positive for Rugby residents
The UK Environment Agency (EA) has released the results of baseline monitoring tests carried out at Rugby Cement. Dr David Hudson, the EA’s environment manager commented: “The p...
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