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Proposal for largest brownfield scheme

A proposal for the largest brownfield scheme in Northern Ireland was submitted this week. The application for a 153ha scheme in Magheramorne, near Larne, was announced by Lafarge Cement UK last ye...
News - 22 May 2006

Lafarge faces charges over plant fatalities

Three days after a worker died at the Lafarge Canada asphalt production plant on Moodie Drive, the company will be in court today on safety and health charges related to a fatality last year at an...
News - 19 May 2006

Lafarge buys Brasov quarries

Lafarge Aggregate Betoane (Aggregate Concrete) bought several stone quarries in Brasov for some Euro 550,000 from Romaco. Lafarge has already used the quarries on lease contracts, Business Review ...
News - 19 May 2006

Lafarge Romcim sees higher 2006 turnover

Romanian cement producer Lafarge Romcim, a unit of French building materials group Lafarge, expects its turnover to reach Euro 190m in 2006, the company said on May 18, 2006.  The Romanian cement ...
News - 18 May 2006

Lafarge now owns 100 per cent of Lafarge North America

Lafarge has today announced that it has successfully completed its acquisition of the remaining shares of Lafarge North America that it did not acquire previously through its tender offer that exp...
News - 17 May 2006

YTL Cement on firm foundations, Malaysia

Resilient earnings and high dividends have kept YTL Cement Bhd shareholders smiling in the last five years, in the face of plunging cement prices and industry-wide losses. Between 2001 and 2005, Y...
News - 16 May 2006

Chilanga Cement spends on plant upgrades, Zambia

Chilanga Cement has spent K54.3bn over the past two years on maintaining its plants, company chairman Muna Hantuba has said.  Reviewing the year ended December 31, 2005 at the company’s annual ge...
News - 16 May 2006

Mogensen feeders for Lafarge, UK

Mogensen has received an order for eight Type TR1 vibratory feeders for installation in the Lafarge Cement Northfleet Works. This order follows the successful operation of a similar feeder, whic...
News - 16 May 2006

Lafarge completes North American transaction

Lafarge has announced that it has successfully completed its cash tender offer for the 46.8% minority stake in Lafarge North America  that it  not previously owned. Lafarge now holds approximatel...
News - 15 May 2006

Analysts look for higher earnings from Holcim

Holcim could report higher first-quarter profits after the purchase of its third-largest competitor in India and an increased stake in a Chinese partner. Net income may have risen by 32 per cent t...
News - 10 May 2006