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Lafarge takeover bid for Sicim company

Lafarge Romania, one of the three-largest domestic cement makers, launched on Monday a take-over bid for a 32 per cent stake in Sicim Constanta for 48.1bn lei (about EUR1.2m). Lafarge has already ...
News - 21 April 2004

UK – Lafarge calls for debate on building material sources

Although the long-running story of the Lingerbay quarry has come to an end, the debate where building materials are to come from in the future, remains. The company at the centre of the quarry...
News - 16 April 2004

FWS Construction continues North American expansion

FWS Construction Ltd., a leading Western Canadian construction company, is pleased to announce it has recently been awarded a contract  to build a cement distribution terminal for Lafarge in Washin...
News - 14 April 2004

EPF buys 1.74m additional shares in Lafarge Malayan Cement

The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has raised its stake in cement maker Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd by buying an additional 1.74 mln shares between March 11 and 24 on the open market, the company sa...
News - 09 April 2004

Town gets toxic waste burn

A controversial plan to burn a variety of waste solvents at a UK Wiltshire cement works looked certain to go ahead last night after the Government ruled out holding a public inquiry into the trial...
News - 09 April 2004

Spain Megasa buys small stake in Cimpor

Spanish steel manufacturer Metalurgica Galaica SA (Megasa) bought a 1.99 per cent stake in Portuguese cement producer Cimpor for 56.2 mln euro ($67.9m) on April 7, 2004.  Megasa bought 13.4 million...
News - 09 April 2004

Circle to Shut Down for Upgrade

Circle Cement Ltd Zimbabwe, is shutting down its plant in June for a major refurbishment programme, chairman Ian Coulter said last week.  He said the plant would be shut down for about 50 days duri...
News - 07 April 2004

Dyckerhoff chief rejects cement price fixing allegations

Dyckerhoff AG’s chief executive officer Wolfgang Bauer rejected cement price fixing allegations, in an interview with Wirtschaftswoche news magazine.  Dyckerhoff was among the companies raided by t...
News - 07 April 2004

Orissa Cement plans expansion

According to The Times of India, Orissa Cements (OCL) has embarked on a Rs 400-crore expansion plan to emerge as a dominant player in the eastern region. The plans include enhancement of brownfiel...
News - 06 April 2004

Moroccan Lafarge Ciments posts good profits

Moroccan cement company Lafarge Ciments’s 2003 consolidated net profit rose 13.6 per cent year-on-year to 784 mln Moroccan dirhams (US$87.6m), the company’s CEO Jean Marie Schmitz told a news confe...
News - 06 April 2004