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Rural housing turns best bet for cement, India

With increasing rural affluence, demand for cement for construction of houses in villages has gone up significantly o...

Foreign cement makers line up for BIS approval, Pakistan

The Pakistan government’s effort to fight inflation by removing import duty on cement has had the desired result: a c...

Import of cement under study: Anbazhagan

Import of cement through the Government-controlled body, Cements Corporation, is under consideration to tackle the pr...

Shree Cement FY07 net down

Shree Cement Ltd has reported a net profit of Rs 177 crore for the financial year to March 31, 2007 compared with Rs ...

HeidelbergCement in agreed UK£8bn offer for Hanson, UK

HeidelbergCement confirmed it is bidding 1,100 pence per share to buy UK building materials company Hanson PLC, valui...

Tamil Nadu considering cement imports to control price rises

The Tamil Nadu government is considering various measures including the import of cement to control the spiralling pr...

Iran bans cement exports

Exports of cement from the mainland are banned, Deputy Economy Minister for Commercial Affairs Mehdi Ghazanfari annou...

Barloworld cement unit in Zimbabwe hit by forex

The acute shortage of foreign exchange in Zimbabwe had put “significant constraints on the normal operation” of cemen...

American firm to construct cement factory in Ethiopia

North Holding Investment Inc (Ethiopia Branch), an American investment firm, is planning to construct a close to five...

China’s Sinoma wins US$42m contract from Sumter Cement

Sinoma International Engineering Co Ltd said it has signed an agreement with Sumter Cement Co LLC to design and provi...