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Venezuelan President Establishes State Owned Basic Industries Co

The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, established a National Company of Basic Industries with a decree issued on D...

Cementos Portland chief increases his holdings

Jose Manuel Revuelta, the general manager of Spanish cement firm Cementos Portland, a subsidiary of leading Spanish c...

Saudi Yamama Cement to raise capital to US$360m

Saudi cement producer Yamama Cement Company (YCC) will propose a capital increase to 1.35 bn Saudi riyals (US$360m) f...

UK and Sweden honouring Kyoto agreement

Britain will meet its commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto protocol on climate change but many

Toxic cleanup completed

Over the past 12 years, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality has been cleaning up the former Portland Cement ...

Kyoto protocol will reduce European economic growth

That is the finding of a recent study from the International Council for Capital Formation, a market-based think tank...

CRH buys stake in Spanish cement maker

In a report first mooted on CemNet back in January 2005, CRH, the Irish building materials company, has now just boug...

Anhui Conch Cement confirms MS-IFC investments

MS Asia Investment, an entity controlled by Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia (MSPEA), Thursday announced here the s...

Indonesia’s Nov cement consumption up

Indonesia’s cement consumption, a good indicator of economic activity, rose 3.2 per cent in November from a yea...

Malaysia: tougher conditions in 2006

Cement and steel producers, whose businesses have been affected this year due to a weak construction sector, may face...