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Going green with better quality tyres

Most of a tyre’s environmental impact occurs during its actual use rather than during disposal as is commonly believed. This is due to the phenomenon of rolling resistance which affects fuel consu...
News - 19 November 2004

Philippine Republic Cement

Republic Cement Corp said it will issue its  convertible loan notes worth 1.35 bln pesos to Lafarge Cement to December 1. The notes were previously planned to be issued last Monday. It did not  sa...
News - 17 November 2004

Bamburi set for further gains

Bamburi Cement Limited, Kenya’s biggest manufacturer of cement and cement related products, recently celebrated 50 years since it first commenced operations.  It was incorporated in 1951, and list...
News - 17 November 2004

Lafarge to start Mejia plant by 2006

Lafarge will start commercial production at its proposed 1Mta cement plant at Mejia in Bankura by 2006. The construction work for the plant will start from 2005. "Lafarge will come up with its cem...
News - 16 November 2004

More on the Rawang expansion

Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd (LMC) will see the cement-grinding capacity of its Rawang plant increase by 800,000t by July next year when it commissions an additional cement mill there.    The compan...
News - 12 November 2004

Lafarge keen on more Indian acquisitions

Lafarge India Ltd is weighing the options of setting up greenfield units or taking over existing units in the country for growth.   The Indian subsidiary, which has presence in the eastern part of ...
News - 12 November 2004

Lafarge says its Indian brand push is costliest

Lafarge spends more on brand promotion as a proportion of sales in India than any other country in the world, the company’s chairman, Bertrand Collomb, told Business Standard today.  "The marketin...
News - 11 November 2004

Lafarge plans for tyre burn

Lafarge Brasil has inaugurated a new plant in Matozinhos (Minas Gerais state). The main characteristic of the new plant is the operation with industrial sub-products in the whole production process...
News - 11 November 2004

Lafarge appoints Razak Ramli

Former Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) secretary-general, Tan Sri Abdul Razak Ramli has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd.  ...
News - 10 November 2004

Lafarge plugs in to captive power sector

Lafarge India (LIPL), a subsidiary of the Lafarge group of France, will be amongst the first foreign investors in the captive power sector in India. The company which grabbed headlines by taking o...
News - 08 November 2004