US Construction House approves $275bn highway spending bill
Last Friday the House of Representatives voted 357-65 in favour of a $275bn highway and transit bill. The spending bill will now be sent to a House-Senate conference, where nego...
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Energy Panel Chief Pushes EPA
United States: The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee recently demanded a private meeting with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Mike Leavitt to pre...
Shandong to issue dust emission standards
China Shandong: At present, Shandong’s cement industrial dust emission volume has around a 70% share in its total industrial dust emission volume. Accordingly, it will be ...
Spain Megasa buys small stake in Cimpor
Spanish steel manufacturer Metalurgica Galaica SA (Megasa) bought a 1.99 per cent stake in Portuguese cement producer Cimpor for 56.2 mln euro ($67.9m) on April 7, 2004. Megasa...
Morocco and Turkey sign free trade deal
Morocco and Turkey have agreed to abolish trade barriers part of an EU-drive aiming to set up a Mediterranean free trade area, Communication Minister Nabil Benabdellah said on T...
Jebsen buys older bulker
The Kristian Gerhard Jebsen group of Norway has emerged as buyer of the 65,000-dwt bulker Sun P (built 1981). The Namura-built ship was reported sold for $12m to an undisclosed...
Judge gives go ahead for tyre burning fight
Campaigners have been given the go-ahead to fight the UK Environment Agency’s controversial decision on tyre burning in the High Court. A judge gave a green light to the ...
Town gets toxic waste burn
A controversial plan to burn a variety of waste solvents at a UK Wiltshire cement works looked certain to go ahead last night after the Government ruled out holding a public inq...
Holcim sets 1-for-7 share issue
Holcim will offer shareholders one new share for every seven held at a price of 52 Swiss francs ($41) under a capital increase to raise 1.5 billion francs, the cement group said...
SCCC: share repurchase
Cumulative number of shares repurchased to date 9,268,800 shares or equal to 3.7075% of paid-up capital which is 2,274,322,000.00 Baht in total. Lowest price (Baht/share): 240....
EPF buys 1.74m additional shares in Lafarge Malayan Cement
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has raised its stake in cement maker Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd by buying an additional 1.74 mln shares between March 11 and 24 on the open ma...
Thai TPI Polene sees Q2 net profit up
TPI Polene PCL, Thailand’s number three cement maker, said on Friday it expected its second-quarter net profit to exceed the 2.3 billion baht ($59 million) posted in the f...
South African cement volumes
South African cement volumes soared by 19.3 per cent y/y in the first quarter 2004 to 2,282,068t, according to data released by the Cement & Concrete Institute (CNCI). There wa...
Vietnam delays boost for imports
Extensive delays in building cement plants could see Viet Nam continuing to rely on millions of tonnes of imported materials for the next few years, said Tong Van Nga, deputy mi...
Iskitimcement output falls
Iskitimcement (Novosibirsk Region, Russia) produced 75,000t of cement over 2 months, 6.2 per cent down on year, the sources with the enterprise told AK&M news sources. Iskitimce...
Construction begins on cement plant
Vietnam: work began on the Hung Vuong Cement Plant in the northern mid-land province of Phu Tho¹s Thanh Ba District on Sunday. The VND1 trillion (US$64m) plant, which was design...
Cimpor to view Iraq investment potential?
A delegation of representatives from 11 Portuguese companies will meet Iraqi government officials and businessmen in London in late April to discuss investment opportunities, Di...
Indonesia still hopes to settle Cemex dispute
The Indonesian government still hopes to settle out of court a dispute with Cemex over Indonesia’s failure to exercise a put option to sell its majority stake in the count...
Holcim - share capital increase
With the successful closing of the public purchase offer to the minority shareholders of Holcim Apasco, Holcim Ltd announced a share capital increase in the amount of approximat...
New technology for cement
Scientists at the US Department of Energy¹s Brookhaven National Laboratory have helped develop a new technology that converts material dredged from the bottoms of harbors and wa...
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