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Azerbaijan offers Lafarge limestone deposit

The Azerbaijani government has made proposal for France’s Lafarge on the occasion of a raw materials site for construction of a new cement factory. Heydar Babayev, the minister for economic develo...
News - 03 October 2007

Ashaka Relocates Communities Over Quarry Activities

Speaking during a visit to the Ashaka works, Nigeria, the Co-President, Cement Division of Lafarge Group, owners of Ashaka, who is in charge of Africa, Mr. Guillaume Roux, said the resettlement of...
News - 02 October 2007

Sumpreme Court allows cost benefit study for mining firms

The Indian Supreme Court has allowed the central empowered committee (CEC) to file an “environment cost benefit analysis” on degradation of environment and forests by mining companies, including F...
News - 01 October 2007

Vorotantim invests US$450mil in Florida, after the cement market

Votorantim Cimentos has wrapped up the acquisition of the concrete company Prestige in Florida (US) for US$200m and begun the construction of a new cement plant at Sumter, a US$250m project to be ...
News - 28 September 2007

1Mta Shuangma Cement project starts production

The first phase cement project with annual output capacity of 1Mt of Shuangma Cement Factory in Gongxian of Sichuan Province, southwest China, which was acquired by Lafarge Shui On, started produ...
News - 28 September 2007

Lafarge Canada appeal begins

The long-awaited hearing into Lafarge Canada’s controversial proposal to burn tires, plastics and other waste in a 34-year old cement kiln near Kingston, Ontario has begun, despite last-ditch effo...
News - 26 September 2007

Lafarge’s Romanian succes

Romanian Lafarge Cement, expects its turnover to increase by 30 per cent YoY to €300m, much more generous than an earlier forecast. The company revised up its 2007 target based on the 84 per cent ...
News - 25 September 2007

Lafarge to see firmer demand for cement next year, Malaysia

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd is expected to see firmer demand next year as the bulk of the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) projects would be implemented then.  AmResearch said in a report that Lafarge’s...
News - 24 September 2007

South Africa forecast

Estimates are that southern Africa will need about 24Mt of cement a year by 2014. Question is whether local cement industry can deliver.     Projected demand derives from the average economic for...
News - 21 September 2007

Ashaka Cement Relocates Communities

Ashaka Cement Company has relocated three communities affected by its quarry activities at its factory in Bajoga of Funa-Kaye local government area of Gombe state. They were moved to a place of t...
News - 19 September 2007