Quarry rejection welcomed
Environmentalists have welcomed the rejection in court of an attempt to create Britain`s biggest quarry in the Western Isles. A French multi-national`s bid to excavate the so-ca...
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Good growth in Mexico
Mexico`s cement industry will register between 4-5 per cent growth for 2003 based on increased demand from housing and public infrastructure projects, industry analysts and comp...
East African Portland problems
The Kenyan High Court has stopped the East African Portland Cement from meddling in a cement distribution contract. Commercial Court Judge Mohammed Ibrahim on Tesday issued a t...
Taiheiyo cash flow surplus
Taiheiyo Cement Corp expects to report a positive free cash flow of 76.9 billion yen on a consolidated basis for the year ending March 31, up 26 per cent from fiscal 2002. The ...
Dalmacijacement shipments
Croatian shipping company Splitska Plovidba will transport 800,000t of cement of local cement maker Dalmacijacement - RMC Group in 2004, compared to 630,000t of cement in 2003. ...
Gujarat Ambuja Q2 net drops
Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd, India`s fourth largest cement maker, reported a 1.3 percent drop in quarterly profit on Friday as a result of sluggish prices in its key market. The...
Holcim increases stake in Alpha
Holcim invested in Russia`s opening cement sector as early as 1994, acquiring a minority shareholding in Moscow-domiciled Alpha CementJSC. Through the purchase of additional s...
Dangote pay-off at Benue
Dangote Industries Limited, Nigeria, the core investor in the Benue Cement Company is to commit
Indian producers - good quarter
Cement makers are set to report largely solid quarterly earnings despite disappointing volume growth, helped by cost savings on power and materials, and analysts expect the prof...
Argentine Cerro Negro to invest
Argentine construction company Cerro Negro, owned by CRH, announced an investment plan, totalling US$10m aimed at expanding activity, it was reported on January 13, 2004. With ...
Turkish Bursa Cimento
Turkish cement and clinker factory Bursa Cimento targets a 5.0 per cent growth in 2004, the director general Burhan Evcil said on January 13, 2004. The company produces 1.8Mt o...
Argentine Juan Minetti
Argentine cement producer Juan Minetti will make investments totalling $1.5m to restart clinker production at its Yocsina facility, Cordoba province, northern Argentina.
Chile sales rising
Local cement deliveries in Chile grew 4.6 per cent in 2003 to 3.62Mt, according to a report by local financial firm CB Capitales.
Pakistan stocks make history
The Karachi stock market created history yet again this week as the index closed at an all-time high level, helped by buying at the dips by institutions and investors in the cem...
Vietnam white cement secures ISO standard
A white cement company has become the first Vietnamese cement producer to be awarded an international standard certificate. Germany¹s Tuv Rheinland Group granted the ISO 9001 ce...
Ghacem donates cement
The Ghacem Foundation of the Ghana Cement Company Limited has donated 100 bags of cement to Kotokuom near Nkawie in the Atwima District of Ghana for the rehabilitation of school...
Indonesia cement sales down
Indonesian domestic cement sales in November dropped 20 per cent from the same month a year earlier due to a long holiday, the country`s largest cement maker said on Tuesday.
HeidelbergCement - new pricing system
HeidelbergCement AG told its customers in a letter that it will introduce a new pricing system from April 2004, which will split Germany into 5 regional price bands, Frankfurter...
Lipetskcement`s 2003 cement output
The output of Russia`s cement manufacturer Lipetskcement, which is part of the Eurocement holding, increased 3.2 per cent on the year to 1.54Mt in 2003, Eurocement said in a sta...
Siam Cement set to benefit
Siam Cement (SCC) should benefit from the government`s effort to promote public infrastructure spending, as well as the cyclical upturn of the petrochemicals cycle. Phatra Secu...
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