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Electra order from Lafarge Canada

Electra Gold Ltd. has received a purchase order from Lafarge Canada Inc. for 2200t of chalky geyserite for its cement plant located in Richmond, BC.  The chalky geyserite must be delivered to Port...
News - 25 May 2005

Cement producers in scramble to lift output

There is no cement shortage in SA, as some have suggested, but there will be one if action is not taken now, Barloworld CEO Tony Phillips said last week.  Two of SA’s four big cement makers have a...
News - 20 May 2005

Price war costs cement firms

Malaysian cement companies are expected to suffer losses in the first half of this year because an ongoing price war is affecting margins, sectorial analysts say. “The current price war is worse t...
News - 20 May 2005

Romanian cement market estimates

The Romanian cement market will remain in 2005 at the level registered last year, of Euro 300m, the incremental increase of the market being strictly related to the ROL - EUR exchange rate evoluti...
News - 19 May 2005

Challenges to cement manufactures in Uganda

According to Mr Mbuvi Ngunze, Managing Director Hima Cement, one of the biggest power consumers in Uganda, electricity power tariff hikes have hit the manufacturing industry hardest. While there i...
News - 18 May 2005

GK Goh Keeps Sell on Lafarge Malayan

GK Goh Research keeps sell on Lafarge Malayan Cement due to price war. "The price war has intensified and the situation now is worse than the last price war in 1999," GK Goh says; adds domestic cem...
News - 18 May 2005

Philippines Republic Cement sees tough year

Republic Cement Corp, part of the worldwide Lafarge empire, expects a tough year in 2005 as it grapples with rising production costs, continued tight government spending on infrastructure, and a po...
News - 13 May 2005

Growth in gypsum sales expected to moderate

The gypsum market in Thailand will likely expand at a slower pace this year than in 2004, according to Siam Gypsum Industry (Saraburi) Co, a Franco-Thai joint venture between Lafarge Boral Gypsum i...
News - 11 May 2005

WAPCO seeks US$77m from rights offer

Nigeria’s West African Portland Cement Company , a subsidiary of the world’s leading cement firm Lafarge , said on Monday it had launched its rights issue to raise 10.2 billion naira ($77m) to pay-...
News - 10 May 2005

European majors remain optimistic

European building materials producers Lafarge, Holcim and HeidelbergCement have reiterated their growth forecasts for 2005 despite the expected four per cent year-on-year decrease in demand in the...
News - 10 May 2005