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France’s Lafarge to invest RUB18bn in Kaluga cement plant

Anatoly Artamonov, governor of Russia’s Kaluga region, and Nicolas Fournier, president of Lafarge Vostok, an affiliat...

Italcementi suspend merger approval

Italcementi SpA and its French unit Ciments Francais have suspended the approval of their merger project until their ...

Taiwan Cement aiming to invest US$800m in China

The Taiwan Cement Corporation plans to invest as much as US$800m to double its cement production in China by 2012, ai...

HeidelbergCement shares rise on refinancing agreement

HeidelbergCement, the German cement maker owned by billionaire Ludwig Merckle, rose the most in more than three months

US cement industry protests EPA’s proposal to regulate kiln emissions

Advocates for the cement industry in the US and environmentalists are facing off in hearings this week as federal reg...

USA: Lafarge, waste management set up landfill methane system

Waste Management and Lafarge North America will unveil a US$2m landfill methane fuel system Friday at Lafarge’s Tulsa...

Sinoma to buy 55m shares of Gansu Qilianshan Cement

China National Materials Co Ltd (Sinoma), the world’s largest provider of cement-producing equipment, on Monday...

Operations at Dushanbe cement plant in Tajikistan

Operations at Dushanbe cement plant in Tajikistan were suspended yesterday following the stoppage of gas supplies

Cemex could sell stock to relieve debt squeeze

Mexican cement giant Cemex SA, weighed down by huge debts from an acquisition made as the US housing-market went into...

Asia Cement to double production capacity

Asia Cement (China) Holdings will spend US$500m to US$600m doubling production capacity this year and next to meet gr...