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Lafarge Cement sales in Romania up 58.6 per cent YoY Jan-Sept 2007

Lafarge’s cement sales in Romania rose 58.6 per cent YoY in terms of value in the first nine months of 2007.     In terms of volume, the company’s cement sales in Romania went up by 42 per cent Y...
News - 09 November 2007

St-Gobain denies held merger talks with Lafarge

French building materials group Saint-Gobain  denied on Thursday ever having held merger talks with cement giant  Lafarge, as French daily Le Figaro reported.      "We categorically deny having b...
News - 09 November 2007

Lafarge 3Q Net Profit +9% despite US slowdown

Lafarge SA Thursday said net profit for the third quarter was up 9%, supported by emerging markets growth and higher prices, and in spite of the slowdown in the U.S. residential market.     In a ...
News - 08 November 2007

Lafarge rejects merger proposals from Saint-Gobain

Lafarge has rejected proposals for a merger with fellow building materials group  Saint-Gobain, French daily Le Figaro reported.    Citing unnamed sources, the paper said Saint-Gobain and  Lafarg...
News - 08 November 2007

Uganda: Chinese firm takes US$105m Lafarge-Hima expansion works

Lafarge has awarded a Ush185 billion (US$105m) turn-key contract to China’s CBMI Construction for the later to expand its cement capacity in Uganda from 350,000t to 830,000tpa. With demand surpas...
News - 07 November 2007

SC puts on hold Lafarge’s plea to ferry limestone, India

The Supreme Court today refrained from granting Lafarge’s plea to allow transporting limestone from its mines in Meghalaya to the company’s plant in Bangladesh.     A special bench headed by Chie...
News - 05 November 2007

Cement producers’ profits dip in Jan-Sep

Chile’s top three cement producers -  Cementos Bío Bío,  Lafarge and Polpaico - all saw their bottom line drop during the first nine months of this year compared to January-September 2006, accordi...
News - 01 November 2007

Egypt grants licences for six cement plants

Egypt granted six licences on Sunday to build greenfield cement plants as part of efforts to increase domestic supply, the first to Nile Valley cement for E£251m, officials said. Local affiliates...
News - 29 October 2007

Rising cement sales buoy Grasim Q2 net

Diversified Birla group company, Grasim Industries, has reported a 50% rise in its net profit for the second quarter, led mainly by its cement and viscose staple fibre businesses (VSF), two fast-g...
News - 29 October 2007

Uganda: Hima Cement Starts Shs185b New Factory

President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned the construction of a Shs185 billion cement plant in Kasese, the third of its kind in the country. The investment by Hima Cement, a subsidiary of France-...
News - 29 October 2007