Cement News tagged: International
Attock Cement nine month profit down 52%
Attock Cement Ltd, Pakistan, has reported a profit after taxation of PKR425.3m in the 9MFY 2010-11
Argos completes Cartagena modernisation, Colombia
Colombia’s largest cement firm, Cementos Argos has completed a US$400mn modernisation project at its Cartagena plant
Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe upgrade programme
Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe has embarked on a US$7m refurbishment programme to boost production.
PCA testifies EPA rules increase off-shore pollutants
Testifying today before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Aris Papadopoulos, CEO of Titan America and chair of the Portland Cement Association (PCA)
Taiheiyo Cement asks rivals for help in meeting demand
Taiheiyo Cement Corp, the country’s largest cement manufacturer, has approached Ube-Mitsubishi Cement Corp and Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co
Bolivia judge freezes assets of cement maker Soboce
A judge in Bolivia ordered a freeze on assets held by the Andean country’s top cement maker, Sociedad Boliviana de Cementos (Soboce), the company said on Friday.
Citadel makes its case known, Egypt
Citadel Capital, an Egyptian private equity company, denies a charge it bought a cement maker from the government at an under-valued price.
Bids for limestone mining ’under consideration’, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources is completing procedures for accepting bids on seven licenses to exploit limestone for the production of cement
Tangshan Jidong Cement sees profit up 40.88% last year
Tangshan Jidong Cement Co Ltd, based in Tangshan, Hebei Province, announced that its net profit
Russia’s Sibirsky Cement sales up 36.5%
Russian holding Sibirsky Cement sold 502,645t of cement in January-March, up 36.5% YoY, the company said Thursday.
Philippine cement demand falls 6.7% in first-quarter 2011
Cement sales in the Philippines dropped 6.7 per cent in the first quarter of the year after huge election spending
Boral in €126m expansion in Queensland
Boral has agreed to acquire certain of Wagners’ construction materials interests in Queensland for AUD$173m (€126m), subject to official approval
First shipment of Carib cement goes to Dominican Republic
Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCC), in a move to expand to markets in the region, has shipped
India: double-digit growth forecast for next fiscal - report
Indian cement demand is expected to report double-digit growth from next fiscal with demand outstripping even the 57Mt capacity addition expected by FY14, says
Tanga marks anniversary with improved packaging, Tanzania
Tanzanian cement producer, Tanga Cement has launched new bags for its Simba Cement brand to improve packaging.
Pakistan likely to lift ban on cement exports
Pakistan is very likely to lift ban off cement export to India latest by next month, which will allow transportation of cement to its neighbour overland,