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Lafarge to double spending in China

Lafarge, the world’s biggest cement producer, is planning to double its investments in China to about US$800m o...

PCMA offers subsidised cement to government

Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (PCMA) has offered to sell cement directly to the government at the rate of...

Holcim takes delivery of new Merc trucks

Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles has delivered more than 40 Mercedes-Benz readymix concrete trucks and aggregate car...

TXI to agree pollution limits

The second US Midlothian cement plant in a week has agreed to limit its air pollution while maintaining increased cem...

Belgorod Cement produces 990,000t

Output of Belgorod Cement JSC came in at about 990,000t of cement in the first seven months of 2005 - up 11 per cent ...

Probe launched over Boston’s "Big Dig"

US prosecutors have launched a probe into a firm accused of using sub-standard concrete in one of the biggest public ...

Holcim to auction LaPorte land site

The auction of about 3000 acres of land and 800 shares of Colorado-Big Thompson water owned by Holcim Inc. is schedul...

Lafarge, Shui On China JV

Lafarge SA and Hong Kong-based Shui On Construction & Materials Ltd will apparently merge their cement operations in ...

Vietnam’s latest plant gets funding

The State-run Development Assistance Fund last week granted a credit of almost VND700 billion (US$43.7m), with an ann...

Insurer pays tsunami claim to Semen Andalas

Local insurance firm PT Asuransi Wahana Tata settled on Wednesday the first insurance claim by tsunami-hit PT Semen A...