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Gulf Cement plans to allow non-Qataris 49 per cent of shares

Gulf Cement Co., a Qatari maker of building materials, will allow international investors to own 49 per cent of the c...

Uniland posts sales of EUR648m

Uniland, in which CRH has a 26.3 per cent stake, saw its earnings before interest and tax soar 28.5 per cent to EUR17...

Siam City Cement expects no domestic sales recovery, Thailand

Siam City Cement (SCCC) expects domestic demand this year to stay flat at best despite the government’s acceler...

Holcim buys land near proposed plant site, New Zealand

Holcim is buying land around its $200m cement plant at Weston, sand quarry at Windsor and opencast coal mine at Ngapa...

Baticim in talks for taking over Afyon Cimento, Turkey

Cement maker Baticim Bati Anadolu Cimento unveils its plans to establish a consortium to bid for cement company Ayfon...

Burundi concerned over low cement export

Burundi has expressed concern at reduced quantity of cement exported to his country by Lafarge Cement Zambia which ha...

India: increase in excise duty likely to be passed on to customers

The cement industry, which is expected to grow at a robust rate during FY09, driven by rising demand from the real es...

JSW Bengal to build 3Mt cement plant at Salboni

Sajjan Jindal-owned JSW Steel Group will be setting up a 3Mt cement plant at Salboni in West Bengal,

Tanzania cancels cement import licences for 14 firms

Tanzania has cancelled cement import licences for 14 companies that had applied to import quantities from East Africa...

Pakistan Cement exports record steady climb

Pakistan’s cement exports have witnessed a healthy growth of 140 per cent to all-time high level of 4.2611Mt during t...