Arab White Cement
Jordan-based cement producer Arab White Cement Co (AWCC) posted a gross profit of 2.1 mln Jordanian dinars (US$3.0m) for 2003, down from 2.6 mln dinars (US$3.7m) for 2002, it wa...
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Cemex in dispute with Nicaraguan producer
Cemex is reportedly in dispute with Nicaragua’s state-owned cement maker Cementera Nacional (Canal) over the terms of a lease contract for a plant in Nicaragua, it was rep...
Everest climbs
Everest Industries Ltd, a subsidiary of Associated Cement Companies (ACC), is increasing its manufacturing capacity from 300,000tpa to 450,000tpa. The plan includes scaling up c...
Dyckerhoff’s profits and balance sheet improve
Dyckerhoff’s operating profit at the EBITDA level rose by 1.8 per cent to €274.0m, in spite of the devastating effect of the price war in Germany, thanks to considerable savings...
Durgapur Cement plans expansion
India: Durgapur Cement has embarked on an expansion programme to set up a new unit, Durga High Tech. Durgapur Cement president Debasis Ghosh said yesterday at the inauguration ...
Thai authorities to get tough
After decades of failing to curb the dust from rock quarries and cement plants which blankets many parts of Saraburi province in a haze, the Pollution Control Department is plan...
Turkish Batisoke Cimento
Turkish cement and clinker producer Batisoke Cimento decided at its management board meeting on March 30, 2004 to boost its paid-in capital to 56.25 trln Turkish lira ($42.7 mln...
Indocement reduce net gearing ratio
The Management of PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa Tbk (Indocement) is trying to reduce its debt to equity ratio (net gearing ratio) by paying some debts in stages. Thomas Kern, ...
Athi river expansion
Kenya: cement maker Athi River Mining yesterday reported a 69 per cent rise in after-tax profit from Sh57.4m to Sh97m for 2003. The pre-tax profit was up 60 per cent from Sh82.1...
UAE Gulf Cement Produces 1.4Mt cement in 2003
UAE cement company Gulf Cement Gulf Cement, based in the UAE emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, produced a total of 1.4Mt of cement in 2003 and reported clinker output of some 1.23Mt fo...
Thai TPI to repay some debt
Thai Petrochemical Industry PCL, will issue 11.8 billion new shares for a debt swap at 2.28 baht each and repay some debt with shares in its cement unit, its management team sai...
Lafarge buys US concrete company
Lafarge Building Materials Inc a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lafarge which holds the former cement and ready-mix assets of Blue Circle in the United States, has completed the acq...
Indonesian consumption
Domestic cement consumption in 2004 is estimated to remain at the same level as last year or may increase by, at most, just one per cent, Director of PT Indocement Tunggal Praka...
Ambuja postpones plant expansion
Ambuja Cement Eastern, a subsidiary of Gujarat Ambuja Cements, has decided to shelve its expansion plans till the closure of the company’s current accounting year at the e...
Jiangmen Conch Cement starts construction
The first construction of Jiangmen Conch Cement Co has reportedly begun, With an investment of CNY500 million, the construction will officially begin in June 2004. At present, t...
Dyckerhoff Plans Further cost cuts
Dyckerhoff AG said Tuesday it plans to cut more costs in 2004 in a bid to improve its operating profit this year. Dyckerhoff will start its successful restructuring program "Dy...
Holcim Slovakia
The largest cement producer in Slovakia, Holcim (Slovensko), Rohoznik, earned a net profit of SKK 111 million last year. "The company’s profit decreased compared with the ...
Holcim Deutschland
German cement manufacturer Holcim Deutschland AG, a subsidiary of the Holcim group, posted a record-high net loss of 40.4 mln euro ($49.2m) for 2003, it was reported on March 30...
St Louis plant discussions continue
Hundreds of supporters of a controversial plan to build one of the world’s largest cement plants packed public meetings Monday in St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Holcim...
Melón 2003 net profit up 6.68%
Chilean cement company Empresas Melón posted a 16.6bn peso (US$26.8m) consolidated net profit in 2003, up 6.68 per cent from the year before, Melón said in a statement to the co...
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