Cement News tagged: International
Heavy buying in cement shares leads to recovery on KSE
Stocks on 2 June staged a snap recovery despite tense city situation boosted by heavy buying in cement shares amid hopes of rising export prospects to Dubai. The KSE 100-share index rose by 8.27 point
Ghacem Holds Workshop in Kumasi
NANA OWUSU Ansah, chairman of the GHACEM Cement Distributors Association in the Ashanti Region has advised block-makers, masons and other cement users to use the product correctly in order to ensure t
Modest rise in May despatches
India’s cement majors have reported a moderate increase in dispatches of cement, year-on-year, for the month of May 2004. ACC reported dispatches of 1.40Mt for the month, which is 2 per cent hi
Ghacem to produce limestone cement
With the support and co-operation of the government, Ghacem has secured a mining license to begin work on the limestone deposit in the Eastern Region. A spokesman said the company has invested US US$8
Leon cements his position
Chris Leon is the CEO of Cement Australia. On 2 June 2004, he celebrates the first anniversary of the merger that created Australia’s largest cement company. It is likely that he is thankful tha
All change at Hanson
UK-based Hanson Plc will rebrand most of its Australian businesses, which include Pioneer cement, Hymix concrete and Besser bricks. Its Australian operations will adopt the Hanson brand, four years af
Cement manufacturers under further inquiry
Cement manufacturers are still in the spotlight of the German competition authority (Bundeskartellamt). The Bundeskartellamt recently conducted a search following tip-offs from cement purchasers accor
Investors brace for Australia’s Boral court fight
Australian building products group Boral Ltd has only a slim chance of buying cement maker Adelaide Brighton after the nation’s anti-monopolies body vowed to get the federal court to block the m
Construction industry pushes cement demand up
The Mexican cement industry chamber CNIC (Camara Nacional de la Industria del Cemento) estimates the domestic market to increase 4% - 5% on 2004, pushed by residential
Indian cement consumption climbs
India’s cement consumption grew by 6 per cent in 2003/04, even as the northern state of Uttaranchal recorded a prodigious 20 per cent growth, a sign of impressive increase in construction activi
China’s output of cement in April
China produced 80,559,900t of cement in April 2004. The output in January-April reached 260,704,200t, up 21.3 percent year on year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Cement consumption drops 10 per cent
Cement consumption in Brazil dropped 10 per cent in April to 2.67Mt compared to the ,month before, according to statistics released by the country’s national cement industry union SNIC. Last mon
Beat the monsoon
Cement prices have firmed up in the southern and western regions of India even as the monsoons are fast approaching. Andhra Pradesh has witnessed a significant `price correction’ post-elections
Inteco lady keeps on growing
Yelena Baturina, owner of Inteco corporation and wife of the Moscow Mayor, keeps broadening her business empire. Inteco recently bought a 100 per cent stake in Pikalovsky Cement, the largest cement pr
Cemex eyes five per cent sales increase in US
Cemex expects US sales volumes to grow 5 per cent this year compared to 2003 thanks to highway, industrial, commercial and housing projects, El Norte quoted VP of corporate finance Rodrigo Treviño as
UK Medway project put on hold
Lafarge Cement UK has confirmed that it is delaying the development of its new cement works at Snodland in the Medway Valley. Lafarge Cement managing director, Jean-Francois Sautin, said: ³We have cho