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Lafarge operating renewable fuels system at Davenport

Lafarge has recently installed equipment that will allow it to use waste seeds, paper, and packaging scrap as fuel at its Davenport cement plant. With these and other by-product materials, the pla...
News - 12 October 2009

Essentium piles into cement

The privately owned Spanish conglomerate Grupo Essentium, run by Susana Monje, having earlier successfully sold its share of the Spanish cement and aggregates joint venture that it had with Orasco...
News - 09 October 2009

Lafarge gains permission to construct new plant, Algeria

Lafarge has obtained permission from the Algerian government to construct a new facility located in Oum El Bouaghi with a capacity of 2.5Mt. The investment, whose amount was not disclosed, will be...
News - 07 October 2009

Zambia construction industry records 9.9% growth

The construction industry has recorded a 9.9 per cent growth since the beginning of the year despite effects of the credit crunch on the local economy. The 9.9 per cent growth rate recorded so fa...
News - 05 October 2009

Lafarge Cement profit doubles, Zambia

Lafarge Cement has almost doubled its profit to ZMK61.7bn from ZMK34bn as demand for cement is expected to remain strong. The company has recorded an increase in the cement volume output by 49 pe...
News - 02 October 2009

Supply Minister Mulongoti Challenges Lafarge, Zambia

Works and Supply Minister Mike Mulongoti has challenged Lafarge Zambia to ensure that it guarantees a steady supply of cement on the local market because road contractors are still complaining abo...
News - 01 October 2009

Stone to reveal Lafarge preliminary findings

In conjunction with Community Advocates for Safe Emissions, Dr. Ward Stone, State Wildlife Pathologist, will reveal preliminary findings associated with his testing of soil and small wildlife for ...
News - 01 October 2009

Study warns of mercury near Lafarge site

Elevated levels of toxic mercury and other heavy metals are in neighborhoods around the Lafarge cement plant on Route 9W, according results from a volunteer project performed by a well-known state...
News - 01 October 2009

Venezuela buys majority of Lafarge subsidiary

Venezuela’s government has purchased 93.8 per cent of the local subsidiary of Lafarge SA, the Caracas Stock Exchange said Wednesday. The state-run Corporacion Socialista Cementera bought the shar...
News - 01 October 2009

Lafarge to deepen cooperation with SW Chinese city

Lafarge Group has inked a cooperation agreement with southwestern China’s Chongqing city in the fields of environmental protection industry. The two sides will cooperate in such sectors as...
News - 29 September 2009