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TPIPL to refinance B10bn in debt

TPI Polene, the country’s third largest cement producer, plans to refinance debt of 10.12 billion baht before e...

British Aggregates Association launches cement market investigation

The British Aggregates Association, BAA, has brought in a specialist firm to investigate claims that the UK cement ma...

ABB’s AutoLab and RMP successfully installed at Indocement’s Cirebon plant

ABB Switzerland Ltd announced today the successful commissioning of their new systems at Indocement’s (PT Indocement ...

Nine US states sue EPA over mercury emissions

Nine states in the US, along with several environmental groups, have sued the United States Environmental Protection ...

Cement prices rise three per cent on higher input costs

The Vietnam National Cement Corporation (VNCC), the country’s biggest cement producer, announced a hike of VND20,000 ...

Lafarge Ciments opens EUR20m slag grinding plant in Western France

Lafarge Ciments, the French unit of Lafarge SA, has invested EUR20m (US$26.6m) to open a slag grinding mill in Bassen...

Five year tax holiday to new cement units, India

Unable to put pressure on cement manufacturers to slash prices, the government is planning to offer them a five-year ...

Rinker acquires more quarries as Cemex bid lingers

Rinker Group Ltd said it has acquired three hard rock quarries and two sand mines in the northeastern Australian stat...

Row Over Sh470m tender increases Portland’s Woes

Succession, two key vacancies and a Sh470 million deal are at the centre of problems bedevilling East African Portlan...

Russian co to build cement plant in Uzbekistan 2007-2010

Russia’s Moscow-based TKB-Invest plans to build a cement producing plant in Uzbekistan between 2007-2010, Uzbek...