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Lafarge raises buy-out offer again

Lafarge has further increased its bid to buy out Lafarge North America Inc. minority shareholders to US$85.50 a shar...

Arabian Cement Company sales

The sales revenue of ACC for the year 2005 increased by 18.7 per cent to SR687.2m from SR578.8m in 2004. The cost of ...

Saudi cement sector outlook

According to data currently available, projects currently under execution in the GCC amount to about $620bn. Out of t...

Caixa triples Cimpor stake

State-owned savings bank Caixa Geral de Depositos bought 20 million shares of cement company Cimpor SA more than trip...

Semapa says starts 175 mln euro bond issue

Portuguese conglomerate Semapa has begun a 10-year, Euro 175m bond issue in a private placement, the company said on ...

Limak, Sabanci interested in Elazig

According to the daily Dunya, Limak Group, Sabanci Group are interested in Oyak’s Elazig cement plant. This week, Oya...

UltraTech Cement Q4 net rises

UltraTech Cement is to announce its Q4 and FY06 results. According to estimates, its Q4 net profit is expected to go ...

Pakistan to import cement

Pakistan is set to import 400,000t of cement to stabilise prices following rising demand. A vessel with nearly 32,000...

Demand for cement rising in Malaysia

What are Tasek’s prospects over the next five years? Barring any unforeseen circumstances, we expect demand fo...

Environmental designs honoured

Bangkok will host the first global Holcim Awards tomorrow, in which 15 of the most environmentally friendly architect...