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Polish building materials prices to increase

Polish building materials’ experts forecast prices will gain between 7 and 10 per cent this year. Still, there should not be any such shocks as the 200-per cent growth in brick prices within three...
News - 06 February 2008

Lafarge Ciments to invest EUR20m in grinding facility

Lafarge Ciments said it will invest EUR20m in its facility in Brest, northwestern France, according to local press reports.     Located at the Brest Port, the cement grinding unit will be expande...
News - 04 February 2008

Leveraged deals

It looks like the fall in stock market valuations over the past couple of weeks may cause problems for some borrowers (but not all) in our sector in a number of debt financed deals.  Higher margin ...
International Cement Review Editor's Blog - 01 February 2008

China’s CNBM to raise over $600m in share sale

China National Building Material Co Ltd (CNBM), the country’s No. 2 cement maker, plans to issue up to 300 million shares and use more than US$623m of the sale proceeds to fund acquisitions and in...
News - 31 January 2008

Portland changes name to Lafarge Cement Malawi

Lafarge Portland Cement Friday announced it has changed its name to Lafarge Cement Malawi migrating to the company’s global brand. Announcement the change at a press briefing in Blantyre Managing...
News - 29 January 2008

Azerbaijan output reaches 1.778Mt in 2007

Azerbaijan cement production reached 1.778Mt representing an increase of 10.6% compared with 2006.   Garadagh Cement is the main local producer and has an annual capacity of 1-1.4Mt of cement, wh...
News - 28 January 2008

OCI/Lafarge transaction completion

Lafarge and Orascom Construction Industries have today completed the acquisition of Orascom Cement by Lafarge, announced on December 10, 2007. Lafarge now owns 100% of Orascom Cement. The reserv...
News - 24 January 2008

Poland cement trust investigation slowly moving forward

Anti-trust proceedings instigated by the Consumer and Competition Protection Office (UOKiK) against cement companies are taking longer than initially planned. According to unofficial sources, the ...
News - 24 January 2008

Lafarge and Orascom

Having seen what some of my editor colleagues write when they put pen to paper one is reminded of the old adage: silence is golden, but let's throw caution to the winds and see what is stirring in ...
International Cement Review Editor's Blog - 23 January 2008

Lafarge adds Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Sawiris representatives to board

Lafarge shareholders approved the nomination of representatives from its two largest shareholders to the French company’s board of directors.     Shareholders approved board seats for Groupe Brux...
News - 21 January 2008