Titan Cement down
Titan Cement posted a 1.5 per cent drop in first-half net profit Thursday, in line with analysts` expectations. Titan`s net profit fell to EUR46.13 million from EUR46.64m in th...
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Holcim expectations
Holcim announces H1 results Thursday 28th August. Analysts at Merrill Lynch suggest sales falls of around 11 per cent and not too much joy in the months ahead - a cautionary not...
TPI doubts
Concerns by the company auditor flag up renewed speculation over the long term future of this petrochemical and cement producer
Possible bid for Suez
Rumours that Ciments Francais could be preparing to increase its stake in Suez Cement seem to be gathering pace.
Portuguese cement sales
Cement sales in Portugal fell 19.7 per cent year-on-year to 4.146Mt for the period January to June 2003, Portugal`s Association of Building and Public Works Companies said on Au...
New orders for ABB
ABB announced that it has received a R32-million process automation contract from cement company Alpha South Africa for the upgrade of Alpha’s kiln 3 at Dudfield. The aim is to ...
New orders for FLSmidth
FLSmidth has received an order worth over US$31m for a greenfield slag grinding facility in Port Canaveral, Florida, USA. The order was made by Civil & Marine Inc, USA, part of ...
RMC Rugby Cement invests in Hi-tech truck fleet
RMC Rugby Cement, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of cement products, has purchased 115 new Volvo trucks. The order, the largest ever placed with the truck manufacturer,...
Lafarge N America 2Q
Lafarge North America Inc missed earnings expectations, blaming bad weather and economic weakness in some of its markets. In a press release, the construction supply company pos...
China – Heidelberg in Guangzhou joint-venture
HeidelbergCement is jointly funding the construction of a modern, environmentally-friendly cement works in Guangzhou, southern China.
UK – Lafarge to increase tyre burning at Cauldon
Lafarge Cement is to increase its tyre burning at its Cauldon plant by over 50 per cent to a maximum of 900 tyres per hour after it has been granted permission. Works manager Ia...
UK – Sewage sludge as alternative fuel
The UK currently has the disposal problem of two million tonnes of sewage sludge per year, much of which is used as agricultural fertiliser.
USA - EPA looks into semiconductor residues in cement
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking into a plan to recycle the residue of semiconductor production at IBM Corporation’s East Fishkill plant into cement.
UK – Another feather on RMC’s sustainability cap
Ready-mix concrete supplier RMC has extended its sustainable development efforts through a partnership with BirdLife International, a partnership of 103 national and local non-g...
Hong Kong – Green Island’s pilot incineration project to move ahead
Green Island Cement received the go-ahead from Hong Kong`s Environmental Protection Department to move its pilot research project to incinerate waste in its cement kilns to the ...
Canada/US – St Lawrence raises the stake
St Lawrence Cement has announced its ambitious goal of reducing its net carbon dioxide emissions by 15 per cent per tonne of cement produced between 2000 and 2010 under the US E...
Chile – Cementos Melon has 30 days to appeal petcoke decision
Chilean cement manufacturer Cementos Melon, owned by Lafarge, has been given 30 days to file an appeal with the ministerial council of the national environment agency Conama
New order for KHD Humboldt Wedag AG
Lafarge Beocinska Fabrika Cementa, Serbia, placed an order with KHD Humboldt Wedag AG for modernisation and upgrading its raw-material grinding system at the Beocin plant locate...
FLSmidth wins contract in Iran
Saveh White Cement Co, a partly state-owned Iranian enterprise, has placed an order with FLSmidth for two production lines with a total capacity of 7200t grey cement per day. Th...
USA - Holcim wins tentative state approval to burn old tyres
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has issued a draft air-quality permit to Holcim Inc. The company applied to the environmental department in February 2001 for per...
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