Chilanga Cement Records K72,402m pre-tax profit
Zambia’s Chilanga Cement Plc has announced a net pre-tax profit of K72,402m for 2003. According to interim results released by company secretary George Varghese last week, the c...
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Cement safeguards slashed by P5
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has decided to slash only P5 from the definitive safeguard duties imposed on all cement imports to P15.60 but has agreed to shorten th...
Qatar National Cement cement prices
Qatar National Cement Company (QNCC) presently offers the lowest cement price of 185 Qatari riyals (US$50.8/t) in the Gulf region, according to report’s from the company’s...
Egyptian Misr Cement Qena exports at US$12m H2 2003
Egyptian cement producer Misr Cement Qena exported over 600,000t of cement and clinker for US$12m in the second half of 2003, the company’s chairman Mohamed Mahmoud Ali Ha...
Venezuela cement sales down 17.4%
Cement sales in Venezuela fell 17.4 per cent last year to 2.7Mt from 3.3Mt in 2002 as demand from the construction sector fell back, according to AVPC, the Venezuelan cement pro...
Indonesia cement consumption up 3.8%
Consumption of cement in January 2004 has reached 2.34Mt or 3.8 per cent more than in the same period of last year when the figure was 2.27Mt.
HeidelbergCement and H+H sell joint venture
HeidelbergCement and the Danish-based aerated concrete producer H+H International are selling their joint venture H+H Fiboment to its management backed by private equity firm Pr...
Big rise in Lucky Cement Jul-Dec profits
Pakistan: Lucky Cement’s profits in the six months ended on December 31, 2003, registered an increase of 89 percent because of higher sales and cut in borrowing costs. The...
Holcim Vietnam
Holcim Vietnam held a function in HCM City on February 23 to introduce its new cement. Laurent Houmard, Holcim Vietnam sales and marketing director, said the company had planned...
Katavsky Cement’s February Output
Katavsky Cement has produced 47,000t of cement since it was put back into operation at the end of January. This represents a third of the plant’s full-year output in 2003...
Hima Cement Plant to Shut Down
Uganda: Hima cement factory in Kasese district will close for a month after locals complained of air pollution. The factory’s Human Resource Manager, John Rwabona confirm...
Garadagh cement investments
Holcim is going to invest $3m of in-house funds in Garadagh Cement joint-stock company by September 2004, Azer-press read in the press release of Garadagh Cement bringing total ...
Grupo Caribe to spend US$17m on upgrades
Colombian cement producer Grupo Caribe is to spend 46bn pesos (US$17m) on plant upgrades to modernize and improve operations, executive president Eric Flesch Santoro announced d...
Semen Gresik draws interest from foreign investment firms
Several foreign investment firms have expressed interest to buy a stake in state-owned cement maker PT Semen Gresik should Mexican cement firm Cemex SA decide to pull out from t...
Portugal Cimpor 2003 Net Profit
Portuguese cement group Cimpor - Cimentos de Portugal SGPS, reported a 5.3 per cent year-on-year rise in 2003 net profit to Euro 185.9m, the company announced on March 5, 2004. ...
Turkish Konya Cimento
Turkish building materials producer Konya Cimento plans investments of 5.335 trln Turkish lira (US$4.05m) for 2004, it was reported on March 5, 2004. According to the business ...
Indian Cement firms see reduced growth
Domestic cement makers have scaled down growth expectations for the industry in the current fiscal to around five per cent from 8.5 per cent registered last year. Last year, th...
Europe – JRC develops smart construction materials
In a joint effort, the EU’s Joint Research Centre, research institutions and researchers from private enterprises are developing smart construction materials capable of absorbin...
UK – RLF receives health OK at Westbury
The trust board of West Wiltshire Primary Care Trust has raised no objections to the recycled liquid fuel (RLF) trials at the Lafarge works in Westbury. Dr Pamela Akerman, actin...
Malaysian cement supply remains strong
There is an ample supply of cement in Malaysia, and the present production capacity will be able to meet the rise in demand expected for this year, according to a statement by t...
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