The opening, at the end of last month, of Holcim's new 4.0mt per annum cement works at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, on t...
The impending publication of a 300-page report by Mexican competition authorities is expected to shed new light on t...
The recently published Global Cement Report Eighth Edition contains a wealth of very useful cement industry data, wi...
The UK papers are full of news and debate about quantitative easing. At first sight one might be forgiven for thinki...
With eye-catching newspaper headlines indicating that much of the UAE is now facing a boom to bust scenario, a stream...
It’s perhaps the sign of a simple mind, but I never fail to smile at the recollection of the Woody Allen quotation th...
The Lafarge ownership saga continues. Last month saw Albert Freres - Group Bruxelles Lambert - seemingly spend clos...
The recent brief conflict in Georgia still has some way to run with the Russian’s apparently in no hurry to return to...
“That’s where John McCain was shot down in 1967”, my taxi driver said rather nonchalantly as we weaved our way throu...
At the end of March 08, Cemex had a net debt US$18,813m disclosed, and a further undisclosed amount of debt in the fo...
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