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Lafarge to look again at Loma Negra?

Lafarge is reported to be interested in acquisition of the Argentine cement company Loma Negra. This Argentinian company, owned by Argentine businesswoman Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, was put for sa...
News - 06 January 2005

News from Andalas

Semen Andalas’ head of corporate communications Tri Rahman Batara says that its Lhonga plant had been seriously damaged by the 26 Dec tsunami that has claimed more than 94,000 lives in Aceh and No...
News - 05 January 2005

Westbury wins battle but war not over

Campaigners fighting plans to burn toxic waste liquids at a cement works last night pledged to take their battle all the way to the European courts, after they lost their bid to stop the trial.  L...
News - 05 January 2005

Lafarge unit plans capacity expansion

Lafarge Indian unit plans to spend INR4.50bn for a 2.5Mta capacity expansion at its plant in eastern Chhattisgarh state, reports the Economic Times.  Lafarge will initially expand the plant’s capa...
News - 04 January 2005

French Lafarge buys Ecuador N0: 2

French building materials group Lafarge has bought up German holding company Finlatam V GmbH, owner of about 99 per cent in Ecuador’s second largest cement manufacturer Cementos Selva Alegre, for...
News - 03 January 2005

First picture from devasted Andalas

Reports coming in from Indonesia’s Aceh province show evidence of the massive damage to the Lafarge Andalas plant on the west coast of Sumatera, less than 100km from the epicentre of the sub-sea e...
News - 03 January 2005

ASEC Egypt gains major new local investor

The recent death of ASEC’s chairman Omar Guimei, a major shareholder in ASEC Cement has prompted a reshuffle of the company’s stock, and the sale last week of a significant 49 per cent stake to a...
News - 03 January 2005

Malaysia Lafarge Malayan to shed United Cement stake

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd said its Kedah Cement Holdings Bhd unit will sell a 49 per cent stake in United Cement Pte Ltd, a Singapore company, to Pan United Industries Pte Ltd.  Pan United, a Si...
News - 31 December 2004

Construction plans for proposed 800,000tpa expansion

Malaysia’s Lafarge Malayan Cement bhd is now involved in a move that is aimed at reducing the group’s overall logistics costs to ship cement from its Langkawi plant to the mainland as well as redu...
News - 30 December 2004

Crisis team flies to Andalas

Reports that a crisis management team from Lafarge’s Paris headquarters has flown out to Indonesia to assist at the Andalas facility in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Suma...
News - 29 December 2004