Expansion of US cement plant challenged
Three organizations opposed to the expansion of a Greene County cement plant, sued the state this week to challenge the state Department of Environmental Conservation permits fo...
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Hawaii Cement Workers Prepare To Strike
Just when it seemed hard times were over for Hawaii’s construction industry, it faces a crippling strike. The Teamsters Union said it will strike Oahu’s two cement/c...
Cimpor to invest in Morocco
Portuguese cement group Cimpor announced on February 4, 2004 its plans to invest 27.6 mln euro (US$33.5m) in Morocco by 2005.
Heidelberg wants to lease Belarusian plant
HeidelbergCement is in talks with Belarus’ Architecture and Construction Ministry to take a lease of the Belarusian Cement plant, based in the Mogilev Region, for five yea...
Cemex Colombia Improves two cement products
Cemex Colombia, a unit of the Mexican cement producer Cementos Mexicanos (Cemex) has considerably improved two of its cement products before re-launching them on the local marke...
Bulgaria Plevenski Cement Raises 2003 Profits
Bulgarian cement producer Plevenski Cement said on Thursday its net profit rose 19.5 percent in 2003 compared to a year earlier, supported by healthy growth in sales and cost cu...
Ssangyong Cement sees record-high profitability
Ssangyong Cement Industrial Co. has hit a record high in corporate earnings. The company reported yesterday that it posted 1.29 trillion won (US$1.1 billion) in sales and 233.8...
Venezuelan-Iranian cement plant
A cement plant will be built in Monagas, northern Venezuela, as a result of a strategic alliance between Venezuelan state heavy industry holding company CVG and Iranian cement c...
Thai Cement Monitor
Domestic cement consumption continued to rise by 25 per cent YoY to 2.15Mt in December (+14% MoM). Cement demand for 2003 grew to 24.2Mt, up 5% YoY. Cement demand grew at a fas...
Grasim May Have To Raise Offer For CemCo
India’s Grasim Industries may have to raise its offer price to acquire a stake of more than 51% in Larsen & Toubro’s demerged cement business, the Economic Times rep...
Indonesia set for Cemex litigation
The Indonesian government is in for a multimillion dollar litigation after the Washington-based International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has registered...
Strong increase from China and Japan give markets boost
After a slow start to the week, a strong increase of mineral inquiries from Chinese and Japanese charterers, has reversed the downward trend, which was the consequence of the en...
Profits drop at St Lawrence Cement
St Lawrence Cement Group, Canada, reported lower fourth-quarter profits and sales Wednesday. The Montreal-based cement and construction products producer said it earned $21.8m ...
Jordan Cement to install new filters
Jordan Cement Factories Company (JCFC) will allocate around JD8 million in 2004 and 2005 to improve its pollution control system, a company official said Wednesday.
Croatian Unit of Holcim at 750,000t in 2003
The cement output of Croatian cement maker Holcim Hrvatska d.o.o, stood at some 750,000t in 2003. Holcim Hrvatska exported some 200,000t of its cement output, mainly to Italy. ...
State to Curtail Chilanga Monopoly
The Zambian government intends to break the monopoly enjoyed by Chilanga Cement Plc with a view of stabilising the escalating price of cement. Commerce, Trade and Industry mini...
Buzzi Unicem raises stake in Dyckerhoff
Italian cement and concrete company Buzzi Unicem has raised its stake in German counterpart Dyckerhoff to 67.01 per cent, buying a 5.32-per-cent stake from Dutch counterpart Hol...
SCCCs Cambodian move
Siam City Cement Plc (SCCC) last week signed an agreement with its Cambodian partner to establish cement dispatching and packaging facilities, making it among the first local co...
China warns of over-investment
The Chinese government has reiterated warnings about the risks of overinvestment in steel, aluminum and cement industries and ordered local authorities to report ongoing constru...
Croatian Nexe Group to post Euro16.3m gross profit
Croatian construction materials producer Nexe Group, which consists of 18 companies, expects to post between 120 mln Croatian kuna (Euro15.1m) and 130 mln kuna (Euro16.3m) gross...
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