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RMC gains amid talk of cement price increaseRMC Group recovered from recent weakness amid talk that France’s Lafarge is set to push through further cement price rises in Germany. Although the German cement market is perhaps best known a...News - 21 June 2004 |
Cimpor plans Indian acquisition?In what could signal another step forward in the consolidation of the Indian cement sector, Cimpor has appointed merchant bankers HSBC Securities and KPMG to identify acquisition targets within In...News - 17 June 2004 |
Fortune Cement upgrading plantFortune Cement Corp, a unit of Republic Cement in the Philippines, has allocated P700 million to improve facilities. Renato C. Sunico, Fortune Cement chairman, said the amount would be used to up...News - 17 June 2004 |
Collomb says co’s German market still in decline, to rebound in H2Lafarge chairman and former chief executive Bertrand Collomb said its US market rebound has continued, with further improvement in volume and pricing conditions, but Germany will remain weak until...News - 10 June 2004 |
No public inquiry into Lafarge plansThe Government has rejected calls for a public inquiry into Lafarge Cement’s plan to burn re-cycled liquid fuel in Westbury. The decision comes despite residents’ fears that the application for a...News - 08 June 2004 |
Brazil Portobello sells to LafargeBrazil’s ceramic producer Portobello SA has sold its mortar producing subsidiary PortoKoll Ltda to Lafarge in a deal estimated at 28.1 mln Brazilian reais (US$8.97m) The purchase was made via Laf...News - 07 June 2004 |
UK – No public enquiry into WestburyThe UK government has rejected calls for a public enquiry into plans to burn recycled liquid fuel at Lafarge’s Westbury plant. Environment minister Elliot Morley said “It would not be normal to ha...News - 06 June 2004 |
Lafarge expects annual turnover increaseLafarge expects to generate an annual turnover increase between 8.0 pct and 10 pct in middle term, the company’s managing director Bernard Kasriel said at the general shareholders’ meeting on May 2...News - 02 June 2004 |
UK Medway project put on holdLafarge Cement UK has confirmed that it is delaying the development of its new cement works at Snodland in the Medway Valley. Lafarge Cement managing director, Jean-Francois Sautin, said: ³We have...News - 01 June 2004 |
Heracles pretax profit up 137 per centGreek cement producer Heracles said on Monday its first-quarter group pretax profit rose 137 percent to 14 million euros, thanks to better weather than last year and rising profit margins in Greec...News - 25 May 2004 |