Indian construction sector strike?
Three real estate developer associations have called for a nation-wide strike on March 15 this year, in protest against the recent hike in cement and steel prices; they have als...
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Serbian building materials
Serbia’s building materials sector exports stood at some $35 mln (28.5 mln euro) for 2003 and imports were nearly $45 mln (36.7 mln euro), according to data of the Serbian...
Turkish production
Turkey produced 28.1Mt of cement in 2003, and 7.3Mt of the output was exported. In 2002, Turkey produced 26.2Mt of cement, and exported 5.5Mt according to the Turkish Cement Pr...
Fresh bid to curb overproduction
China is yet again ratcheting up its attempts to curb investment in heavy industries such as steel, aluminium and cement, this time by banning construction of new plants and res...
Chia Hsin Cement profit growth
Chia Hsin Cement Greater China Holding Corp reported a near-doubling in net profit last year. The cement maker reported net profit of US$19.0m in the 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2...
Italcementi net profit up
Italy’s biggest cement firm, Italcementi said on Monday its consolidated net profit edged up one percent to 277 million euros in 2003 and said it saw 2004 results little c...
Pakistani cement makers
The All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) says that cement manufacturers have not increased cement prices and assured that prices will not be increased in the fu...
UK – Tearing down
Two years ago, Lafarge closed its Eastgate cement plant, near Weardale, County Durham. Since then its industrial buildings have told a sorry tale of glory long-gone and provided...
Cement grinding plant reconstruction at PCLA
Following the new cement grinding plant at CEMMAC in Slovakia, which was commissioned in June 2003, and the cement grinding plant at Lukavac in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a third o...
Ghacem sets out the facts
Ghacem Ghana Limited, the major domestic producer of cement, says it is impossible for businessmen in Ghana who claim they can import cement from Russia at US$3 per bag to flood...
Egyptian cement output
Egypt’s cement output fell to 16.8Mt in the first seven months of the fiscal 2003/04, ending June 30, 2004, from about 17.1Mt in the corresponding period of 2002/03, the E...
Cement and flyash products
Indian cement companies are trying to woo builders to use flyash-based products, which are considered to be more eco-friendly. The companies of the likes of Grasim, ACC, and L&T...
Lipetskcement ups cement production
Lipetskcement produced around 168,000t of cement in January 37.6 per cent up on year, according to
Juan Minetti posts profits
Increased sales and a successful financial restructuring helped Juan Minetti, Argentina’s second largest cement producer, post a P121m (US$41.3m) net profit in 2003, recov...
Torah cement impressive
Egypt: Torah Cement released FY03 results ending December, in which the company recorded an impressive 15.3 x net income hike to LE55m (US$8.9m) compared to LE3.6m realized in F...
Votorantim halts talks over Secil stake
Brazilian cement company Votorantim (VCP) has apparently called off talks with Portugal cement company Semapa over buying a 41 per cent stake in Semapa unit Secil, Publico repor...
USA – St Lawrence Cement to provide more information
St Lawrence Cement is to provide additional data to New York Department of State on 10 topic areas relating to the expansion of its Hudson works. The Department wants to see a b...
NY ruling on cement plant plans
New York state officials called on St Lawrence Cement to provide more data to better gauge the environmental impact a proposed expansion of its Hudson, NY, plant would have on t...
Egyptian Beni Suef Cement employees offer share sale
The employee union of Egyptian cement producer Beni Suef Cement has offered for sale its 5.0 per cent stake in the company equal to 1.65 million shares, it was reported on March...
Holcim to detail Mexican unit offer
Holcim will detail the outcome of a US$750m takeover offer for Mexico’s Holcim Apasco on Monday, it said Wednesday, as a planned cash call to finance the deal continued to...
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