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Lafarge planning US plant expansion

Lafarge wants to invest in its cement plant in the southern Illinois town of Joppa. A spokesman for Lafarge North Am...

FLSmidth & Co wins Iran kiln order

FLSmidth & Co AS said it has won a Euro 35m order from Fars & Khuzestan Cement Co’s Abyek Cement unit to expand...

China’s output of cement in April 2006

China produced 103,750,900t of cement in April 2006. The output in January-April reached 319,781,100t, up 21.8 per ce...

Lafarge ups mid-term targets, mulls roof unit sale

Lafarge raised its mid-term targets on Thursday and said it was considering selling its underperforming roofing busin...

Cement Hranice ups 2005 profit by 32 per cent Hranice

Czech cement maker Cement Hranice raised audited net profit by 31.7 per cent YoY to Kc659.3m in 2005, says its annual...

Buzzi Unicem acquires 35 per cent stakes in two Algerian

Buzzi Unicem SpA said it is acquiring a 35 per cent stake in Algeria cement company Hadjar Soud for EUR58m and a simi...

Cement plants to raise capacity by 10% to meet demand

Vietnam’s cement plants will raise their capacity by 10% between now and 2008 in order to meet the increasing d...

Cement firm expects industry slump, Philippines

Fortune Cement Corp. expects a decline in sales and demand, or at best, a flat performance for 2006 due to less gover...

Cement prices firm despite monsoons

Cement prices are showing no signs of abatement despite the arrival of the monsoons in some parts of the country. Usu...

Andhra Cements to expand cement capacity

According to GP Goenka, Chairman, Andhra Cements, the company’s Phase I capacity is to be increased to at least...