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Cement industry turning green

Leading environmental NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has awarded the Indian cement industry its "Three Green Leaves" rating for reducing pollution but feels it needs to clean up its ...
News - 19 December 2005

MP impressed by cement plant, UK

Rugby MP Jeremy Wright took a journey forward in time to find out what the future could hold for Rugby Cement and the controversial tyre-burning issue.    After court hearings and much concern fr...
News - 16 December 2005

Lafarge announces further increases in cement capacity

The Paris-based global leader in cement is spending €125m in a new kiln and associated production facilities at its Russian subsidiary Voskresenskcement’s existing works, raising the cement capacit...
News - 15 December 2005

Cement industry complains about CO² certificates

The Austrian cement industry is threatening to shut down its kilns temporarily if the price of legally mandated CO² certificates goes up too much. Peter Orisich, General Director of the Lafarg...
News - 15 December 2005

EPA requests info on dust disposal

Florida Rock Industries Inc disclosed Wednesday that it received a request for information from the US Environmental Protection Agency about whether its subsidiary illegally disposed of constructio...
News - 15 December 2005

Lafarge Malayan: share buy-back

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd reports it has bought back 1.2m shares at prices ranging from M$0.60 to 0.62 a share, for a total of M$741,085.27 (approx US$0.2M) on December 13.  In a filing to Bursa M...
News - 14 December 2005

Mykolaivtsement increases output

In November, the Mykolaivtsement company (Mykolaiv, Lviv region), increased cement production by 25.8 per cent or 12,500t compared with November 2004, to 61,000t.   According to reports, in Novembe...
News - 14 December 2005

Motivation vital for high performance

A South African based business analyst Justin Cohen says companies need to motivate their individuals if productivity is to improve. Cohen said yesterday during a training workshop for Lafarge Port...
News - 14 December 2005

Humidification at eco-friendly cement plant

Designs Unique, the Johannesburg-based company specialising in data acquisition projects, was recently commissioned to install a laboratory humidifying system at the Lafarge Bamburi Cement plant i...
News - 14 December 2005

Cemex and Cementir trade concrete interests

Cemex is pulling out of Denmark by having signed an agreement to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary 4K-Beton to Cementir, already the market leader in Denmark.  4K-Beton operates 18 batching plants a...
News - 13 December 2005