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Work starts on new cement plant

Construction of a US$210m cement plant began in Tinh Gia district of central Thanh Hoa province on July 4. The plant,...

CNBM plans to spin off unit

China National Building Material Group Corp (CNBM) plans to spin off its machinery equipment making unit, Northern He...

Holcim Bulgaria to push capacity increase in 2006

Holcim will complete a Euro 26.5m investment in raising the output capacity of one of its Bulgarian plants by the end...

Eurocement to pay after settlement with antitrust

Russia’s largest cement producer Eurocement will pay a 267 million ruble fine (US$10m) to the federal governmen...

Bio Bio sells assets worth $73.95m

Chilean cement producer Cementos Bio Bio (CBB), controlled by industrial group Briones, announced on July 3, 2006, th...

Readymix sells East Wall site

Irish Readymix has sold its site on East Wall Road to the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for €23 milli...

Cement shortage continues in Jamaica

Over in Jamaica, months after Caribbean Cement Company Limited’s recall of 500t of cement that crippled the con...

Penden Cement: rising demand from India

Demand for cement has increased and sufficient orders are at hand for the coming months but the monsoon which floods ...

CAF approves loan to Soboce

The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) has approved a US$25m loan to Bolivia’s largest cement producer, Soboc...

FFE Minerals acquisition

FFE Minerals has acquired US-based Excel Foundry and Machine, Inc., which is a leading provider of quality spare part...