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Hebridean superquarry plan finally buried

Plans to create Britain’s biggest quarry were scrapped yesterday, marking the end of Scotland’s longest-running planning dispute.  The cement manufacturer Lafarge Aggregates said that it was withd...
News - 06 April 2004

Lafarge buys US concrete company

Lafarge Building Materials Inc a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lafarge which holds the former cement and ready-mix assets of Blue Circle in the United States, has completed the acquisition of the ass...
News - 01 April 2004

Chilanga Shareholders reject K60 dividend

CHILANGA Cement Plc shareholders last Friday rejected a K60 dividend offer arguing for an amount that reflected the company’s good performance for 2003. But the dividend was passed by division, af...
News - 31 March 2004

Melón 2003 net profit up 6.68%

Chilean cement company Empresas Melón posted a 16.6bn peso (US$26.8m) consolidated net profit in 2003, up 6.68 per cent from the year before, Melón said in a statement to the country’s securities r...
News - 31 March 2004

Lafarge to Build a new production line in Bouskoura, Morocco

Lafarge  has today announced th edecision by Lafarge Ciments (Morocco), its 50 per cent subsidiary, to build a new production line in Bouskoura, Morocco, to increase the cement capacity by over 90...
News - 30 March 2004

Cementos Bio Bio 2003 net profit up

Chile’s Cementos Bio Bio posted a 20bn peso (US$32.4m) consolidated net profit in 2003, a 32.8 per cent jump from the year before, Bio Bio said in a statement to the country’s securities regulator...
News - 29 March 2004

FCB-Ciment

FCB-Ciment (France), the subsidiary fully devoted to Cement Industry of the FIVES LILLE Group, has signed in January 2004 a contract with Lafarge Cementos SA de CV, the Mexican subsidiary of Lafar...
News - 26 March 2004

Lafarge To Acquire Hupfer Holding

Lafarge has signed an agreement with the Haniel Group for the acquisition of Hupfer Holding, a major aggregates and ready-mix concrete producer in the East and the Center of France and in the area...
News - 25 March 2004

Beni Suef losses

Egyptian cement company Beni Suef Cement reported a net loss of 318.8m Egyptian pounds (US$51.7m) for 2003, up from 84.92m pounds (US$13.8m) in 2002.  The wider net loss came despite an 11.4 per ce...
News - 25 March 2004

Chilean Cement industry improves

Empresas Melon, a subsidiary of Lafarge, forecasts a 1.8 per cent to 2.0 per cent growth for Chile’s cement industry in 2004. Melon’s forecast is however less optimistic than the 4.0 per cent grow...
News - 24 March 2004