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Lafarge sets sights on emerging markets

Lafarge is pursuing growth in emerging markets in an attempt to counteract the downturn in the construction sector, the Financial Times reports. The group’s chairman and chief executive Bruno Laf...
News - 07 January 2009

Cement barge runs aground

A 60m empty cement barge ran aground near McMicking Point, Vancouver on New Year’s Day. Staff from Vancouver-based Lafarge, the company that owns the barge is however keeping quiet on how the b...
News - 03 January 2009

Cemex US markets under pressure in 2009

Cemex could face more price declines in 2009 in the US, as lower-cost cement imports erode profit in the Mexican company’s largest market, weighing on efforts to reduce its $16.4 billion debt bur...
News - 30 December 2008

Heracles posts dividends

Shareholders of Heracles Cement, majority owned by France’s Lafarge, decided a 32 million Euro or 0.405 euro per share capital return, Greece’s financial daily Imerisia reported. The company’s s...
News - 29 December 2008

Nigerian prices and imports in the spotlight again

Every day, news about high cost of cement makes headlines in the Nigerian press and while some blame the present government for lack of political will to enforce government policy to check possib...
News - 29 December 2008

JK Cement eyes 6Mta greenfield unit In Himachal Pradesh

Rich limestone deposits and the state government not averse to having more cement plants is attracting more players with JK Cements being the latest entrant, vying for setting up a large greenfiel...
News - 23 December 2008

UK: Lafarge recalls 30,000 bags of cement

Lafarge has recalled 1500t of Blue Circle cement over fears it contains higher than normal levels of chromium VI. The company is recalling 280,000 bags in total from DIY outlets and builders’ merc...
News - 22 December 2008

PITC to make first duty-free cement import

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has ordered an initial duty-free importation of 1m bags of cement by the state-owned Philippine International Trading Corp. (PITC) to be made available a...
News - 22 December 2008

Final decision on Lafarge burn permit expected soon, US

The Department of Environmental Quality presented an update on the requested burn permit by Lafarge at Thursday’s Air/Water Quality committee meeting. The fate of the plant’s plans to burn alterna...
News - 19 December 2008

NTPC in talks with Lafarge

It is reported that NTPC and Damodar Valley Corporation are in talks with Lafarge to set up manufacturing units in the locality of their power projects in order to meet the government’s mandate of...
News - 17 December 2008