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St. Marys Charlevoix plant to lay off 80 as of Dec. 1

St. Marys Cement Plant in Charlevoix announced Thursday that it would be laying off about 80 percent of its hourly wo...

China cement production growth slows in Jan-Sept

China’s cement output growth decelerated in recent months due to weak demand and cement producers production cut to s...

Baltic Dry Index keeps on dropping throughout October

Late October saw the all important Baltic Dry Index trading below 1000 points. The continuous slump has seen the inde...

Holcim committed to regreen deforested Nusakambangan

Cement producer PT Holcim Indonesia has reiterated its commitment to regenerate its limestone mining site on Nusakamb...

Inekon to build cement works worth CZK 4.7bn in Egypt

Czech company Inekon Group, exporting complete plants, industrial equipment and railway vehicles, will build cement w...

Lafarge introduces new product, South Africa

Lafarge has introduced the high earlystrength cement product Rapidcem CEM II 52,5N, which was developed in New Zealan...

Titan Group says turnover up, profits down in Jan-Sept

Titan Cement on Thursday reported a 15.6 per cent decline in its consolidated net, after tax and minorities, profits ...

Grasim, ACC quarterly profits take a plunge

Against the backdrop of high input costs and general economic slowdown, Grasim, the Aditya Birla Group’s flagship com...

Boral’s cement volumes ahead

That the annual general meeting, Mr. Rod Pearse, managing director of Boral, reported higher volumes and prices for c...

Higher interest charges depress Titan’s profits

Titan’s turnover increased by 3.5% to EUR1,183.5m in the first nine months of 2008, while the EBITDA declined b...