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DOE assesses the use of energy at Holcim

The US Department of Energy recently conducted a three-day industrial energy saving assessment at the Holcim facility...

Holcim places 99.9 per cent of new shares

Holcim has sold 99.9 per cent of the new shares issued under its latest SFr1.7bn rights issue, the Swiss cement maker...

Italcementi looks to China for further growth

Italian group Italcementi, the world’s fifth cement producer, has been planning to further strengthen its posit...

Lehman Brothers becomes second largest shareholder in Italcementi

Through its International Europe division, investment bank Lehman Brothers now owns 2.35 per cent of Italcementi, mak...

Heracles Cement returns to profitability

Greek cement producer Heracles , majority-owned by France’s Lafarge , on Tuesday reported first quarter net pro...

Egyptian Ameriya Cement net profit up

Egyptian company Ameriya Cement almost doubled its consolidated net profit to 74.1 mln Egyptian pounds (US$12.8m) in ...

HeidelbergCement Buys majority stake in Kartuli Cement

HeidelbergCement AG said Tuesday it has bought a 51 per cent stake in Georgian cement producer Kartuli Tsementi, inve...

QCCI Committee to discuss cement crisis

The Contracting Committee at the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry (QCCI) will tomorrow meet to discuss the ceme...

TCL must ship more cement to Jamaica

The principles of a Caribbean Single Market (CSM) prevents the Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) Group from maintaining c...

Price cuts start to bite

The cement sector was in focus last week, thanks to government initiatives to curb further price hikes. Cement compan...