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Anti-dumping – winners and losers

Mexico and the US plan to ratify on March 6 an agreement to end a long-standing trade dispute over cement, a spokesma...

Aditya Birla shipments up

Aditya Birla group, India’s top cement producer, said on Thursday its February cement shipments rose 16.1 per c...

Pollution eating cement – made in Italy

Italcementi has produced a new type of photocatalytic cement called TX Active, which can reduce the organic and inorg...

Gujarat Ambuja February cement shipments

Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd, India’s third-biggest cement maker, said on Wednesday its February shipments rose 1...

Steppe Cement awards contract

Steppe Cement Ltd said its subsidiary Karcement in Kazakhstan has closed the tender process and has awarded the contr...

Holcim pleases JP Morgan

Holcim’s 2005 EBITDA was SFr 4757m, SFr43m higher than analysts at JPMorgan (JPM) were forecasting. Holcim reported 2...

New orders for FLSmidth

Holcim has awarded a US$247m contract to FLSmidth for their new plant at Ste Genevieve, Missouri. Located on the Mi...

Acquisitions, prices rises boost Holcim profits

Recent acquisitions and price increases helped Holcim to report a 75 per cent increase in net profit for 2005, beati...

CIMA mulls cement assets sale to Vicat of France

State-owned Cement Industries of Malaysia, or CIMA, the country’s third largest cement producer, is reportedly ...

China to further reform cement industry

China will continue to adjust its cement industry’s structure to ease overcapacity and achieve industry central...