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Cement merger on the cards?

The Competition Tribunal is expected to hear two large mergers next week between three cement manufacturers -- Alpha,  PCC and Lafarge -- and a proposed transaction involving investment holding co...
News - 21 May 2004

Tarmac: no more UK cement plant plans

Chief executive Robert Robertson says the £115m Buxton facility upgrade is final UK project. Tarmac has no plans for any further cement factories in the UK beyond the new £115m plant at Buxton...
News - 19 May 2004

Lafarge names Blatz head of aggregates, concrete

Lafarge  has put Jean-Charles Blatz in charge of its aggregates and concrete business following the departure of Charles de Liedekerke, it said on Monday. Blatz has spent his whole career at L...
News - 18 May 2004

Cement Firm’s Objection Questioned

Rio Grande’s Tijeras plant in New Mexico faces stricter environmental pollution control legislation. Local public hearings in Bernalillo County have discussed the proposal to bring local ambient ai...
News - 14 May 2004

USA – Cement firm’s objection questioned

Rio Grande’s Tijeras plant in New Mexico faces stricter environmental pollution control legislation. Local public hearings in Bernalillo County have discussed the proposal to bring local ambient a...
News - 14 May 2004

Lafarge Malayan sees low demand growth

Lafarge Malayan Cement expects cement demand growth in the country to fall to low single-digits from about 20 per cent last year, due to the slowdown in construction activities as a result of stee...
News - 12 May 2004

Lafarge: more Romanian investments

Lafarge has said it planned to invest Euro 4.0m in its operations in Romania this year, local news sources reported. Lafarge will invest Euro 2.0m in aggregate production and another Euro 2.0m in ...
News - 12 May 2004

Lafarge sees more China opportunities

Lafarge wants to invest more in China and thinks Beijing’s efforts to cool the booming industry could allow it to buy more factories, a company executive said on Tuesday.  The French-based firm ha...
News - 11 May 2004

Ravena US overhaul

When Atlantic Cement Co finished the Ravena facility in 1962, it was the largest ever built in the US. Many local people know the plant because of the conveyor system that passes below the Thruway...
News - 11 May 2004

More than just a holiday romance

A serious, academic-minded executive who’d never lived outside his native Vienna, Martin Kriegner had just turned 40 when Lafarge offered him a posting in Mumbai. To help him make up his mind, the...
News - 10 May 2004