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Cement prices seen to stabilise

Republic Cement Group of Companies forecast of stable cement prices in The Philippines for the first half of the year due to improved production efficiencies and favorable peso-dollar exchange rat...
News - 01 April 2005

Tyre protestors at Ravenna

Opponents say pollution from a cement plant in Ravena USA, that already affect local residents may get worse if Lafarge Cement is allowed to burn tires there for fuel. Lafarge filed an application...
News - 31 March 2005

High input costs hit Circle Cement

Increased input costs have caught up with one of Zimbabwe’s leading cement manufacturers, Circle Cement Limited (part of the Lafarge Group) whose operating margins declined from 29.5 per cent to 20...
News - 30 March 2005

Morocco’s Lafarge Ciments 2004 net profit surges

Morocco’s main cement company Lafarge Ciments on Monday announced a 59 per cent rise in net profit for 2004 helped by exceptional financial results and a buoyant building industry in the north of ...
News - 29 March 2005

Westbury drops plans for burning recycled fuel

Campaigners fighting plans to burn poisonous chemicals at the UK Westbury cement works were celebrating yesterday after the firm dropped its controversial plans.  Lafarge announced it has postpone...
News - 29 March 2005

Agency identifies rogue cement sourced from Lafarge plant

The UK Highways Agency, which manages and operates England’s motorways and trunk roads, became aware in the third week of January of potential problems with cement supplied by Lafarge Cement UK fr...
News - 22 March 2005

Lafarge Ciments Appoints HR Director

Lafarge Ciments, the cement division of French building materials group Lafarge, appointed Alain Guillen, 44, human resources (HR) director, it was reported on March 18, 2005.  Prior to the appoin...
News - 21 March 2005

Moldovan Ciment Rezina

Moldovan cement producer Ciment Rezina, majority-owned by French building materials group Lafarge, increased its net profit twice to 19 mln Moldovan lei (Euro 1.1m) in 2004 compared to 2003, it wa...
News - 16 March 2005

Lafarge to develop its US positions

Bruno Lafont, managing director of Lafarge, the French building materials group, has said that it is interested in consolidating its position in mature markets such as North America as well as con...
News - 16 March 2005

Lafarge ups stake in Vietnam concrete business

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd subsidiary Supermix Concrete (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd has acquired the remaining 57 per cent stake in Supermix Asia Pte Ltd that it does not already own from another Lafarge su...
News - 15 March 2005