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Bolivia: reality contradicts cement trade announcement

Bolivian productive development minister Antonia Rodriguez surprised many this week when she announced that the country will begin importing cement from Venezuela. The cement shortage and economic...
News - 01 September 2010

Price war, power failures affect Lafarge Pakistan 1H

Lafarge Pakistan Cement Ltd. has announced today that its net turnover for the half year ending on 30 June 2010, continued to suffer as a consequence of the ongoing price war. Its net sales was re...
News - 01 September 2010

Moody’s confirms Lafarge’s Baa3 rating, outlook negative

Moody’s Investors Service has today confirmed Lafarge S.A.’s Baa3 issuer rating. The rating outlook is negative. Moody’s has also confirmed Lafarge North America, Inc’s and Lafarge Cement UK plc’s...
News - 01 September 2010

Lafarge Hope award, UK

Work to develop a new type of eco-friendly commercial flooring concrete has
 earned Hope Cement Works operator Lafarge an award.

 The firm was among the winners at the Green Apple Environmental ...
News - 31 August 2010

India: small producers feel pressure

Amid continuous consolidation in the domestic cement sector, with major companies capturing bigger market shares, smaller ones may find it difficult to expand their limited area of operation, acco...
News - 26 August 2010

Lafarge India starts health centre in Chittorgarh

Lafarge India, under its Corporate Social Responsibility Programme has now launched a health centre at Bhujia Kheri village in Nimbahera tehsil in district of Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. This centre w...
News - 25 August 2010

Bulk World Trade clinker grinding plant

Bulk World Trade, a company belonging to the Lafarge Cement group, has invested approximately EUR20m in building is clinker plant in the Port of Tarragona. Work began three years ago during the su...
News - 25 August 2010

Lafarge Malayan Cement to sell bonds

Malaysia’s largest cement maker will sell as much as MYR350m of Islamic bonds under a seven-year program to fund expansion, the company said March 26. The debt is rated AA2 by RAM Rating Services ...
News - 24 August 2010

Lafarge’s India-Bangladesh cement project remains frozen

Four years after operations started Lafarge’s gigantic limestone mine in Meghalaya state, north-east India, is still at a standstill, pending a decision by India’s Supreme Court. In February the ...
News - 23 August 2010

Holcim’s net profit falls 12 per cent

Holcim Ltd on Thursday joined rivals in warning that weak cement demand in Europe is offsetting steady growth in Asia as the company posted a 12 per cent drop in quarterly net profit. The cement ...
News - 19 August 2010