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Portland imports raw materials from Egypt

Following the closure of its major plant at Changalume in Zomba in 2002 reportedly due to dwindling limestone deposits, Portland Cement (1974) Limited is importing clinker, the crucial raw materia...
News - 22 January 2004

World – Global Greenhouse Gas Register launched at Davos

The World Economic Forum, currently in session at Davos, officially launched the Global Greenhouse Gas Register, developed in partnership with key international business and environmental organisa...
News - 22 January 2004

Quarry rejection welcomed

Environmentalists have welcomed the rejection in court of an attempt to create Britain's biggest quarry in the Western Isles. A French multi-national's bid to excavate the so-called 'superquarry' a...
News - 16 January 2004

Chile sales rising

Local cement deliveries in Chile grew 4.6 per cent in 2003 to 3.62Mt, according to a report by local financial firm CB Capitales. The figures are the highest since 1998 (3.85Mt) as the country's e...
News - 15 January 2004

Lafarge Korean acquisition

Lafarge, which has held a 39.9 per cent interest in Lafarge Halla Cement in South Korea since 2000, now owns a 50.1 per cent stake following the acquisition of 10.2 per cent of the company's share...
News - 13 January 2004

Votorantim Canadian loan

St. Marys Cement Inc, a Toronto, Canada-based cement production unit of Brazil's industrial conglomerate Votorantim, has received a US$325m loan from a bank syndicate led by US Citigroup Global Ma...
News - 13 January 2004

Rail shortage halts cement

Cement production in Eastern India has been severely hit due to an acute shortages of railway trucks required to transport clinker. Production was hit the hardest in the past two months. Cement un...
News - 13 January 2004

Austria`s Porr buys concrete plant

Austrian construction company Porr AG bought a Euro3.0m concrete production plant in Croatia from Austrian concrete producer Lafarge Perlmooser AG, it was reported on January 10, 2004.  The plant i...
News - 12 January 2004

Lafarge expands in Asia

Lafarge is to increase the capacity of its Chongquin cement works in China from 0.8Mt to 1.8Mt by building a second production line.  The US$40m investment is expected to be completed during the la...
News - 08 January 2004

PSP Engineering wins Russian contracts.

  Czech firm PSP Engineering, has won several new orders in Russia, according to the firm's spokesman Ludek Fesar. PSP has signed deals to complete a cement mill at the Voskresensk cement fact...
News - 07 January 2004