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Cimpor stake bought by Lafarge

Cimpor Cimentos de Portugal SA said France's Lafarge paid 4.07 eur per share for the additional 17,742,705 shares or 2.64 per cent stake it bought in the Portuguese cement maker on Monday from Cem...
News - 24 December 2003

Serbian Novi Popovac

Serbian cement maker Novi Popovac said on December 22, 2003 it planned investments of Euro 20m for 2004.  The funds will be used for modernisation of cement production facilities and for increase o...
News - 24 December 2003

Lafarge to divest of stake in Molins

As part of its continued efforts to improve its balance sheet following the acquisition of Blue Circle Industries, Lafarge has signed an agreement to sell its 40.9% in Cementos Molins Industrial. ...
News - 23 December 2003

Lafarge acquisition

Lafarge has acquired the EBRD's 23 per cent shareholding in Lafarge Polska, which is made up of Lafarge's cement and aggregates & concrete operations in Poland. The transaction amounts to Euro84m,...
News - 18 December 2003

Europe – Cement Sustainability stakeholders make progress in wide range of issues

The latest Cement Sustainability stakeholder meeting, hosted by the Cement Sustainability Initiative in Brussels, was the scene for productive talks on many of the more complex issues surrounding ...
News - 12 December 2003

Quarry battle

Lafarge Aggregates is still bidding to set up a super-quarry on the Hebridean island, in what has become Scotland 's longest-running planning dispute, dating back to 1991. The company was...
News - 10 December 2003

Lafarge Halla pulls out of Tong Yang Cement

Lafarge’s Korean cement arm, 39.9% owned by Lafarge and the remainder by financial investors, has sold its 25% stake in Tong Yang Cement Corporation to Tong Yang Major Corporation f...
News - 10 December 2003

World Economic Forum creates Global Greenhouse Gas Register

At the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Milan, Italy, the World Economic Forum announced it is creating a Global Greenhouse Gas Register to facilitate the dis...
News - 09 December 2003

Kenya – Bamburi and Worldwide Fund for Nature regenerate degraded Shimba Hills forests

Kenya – Bamburi and Worldwide Fund for Nature regenerate degraded Shimba Hills forests Lafarge-owned Bamburi Cement, no stranger to conservation issues, is teaming up with the Worldwide Fund ...
News - 08 December 2003

Hima Cement safety

After winning a silver medal as Uganda's best investor of the year, the management and staff of Hima Cement celebrated two years of no lost time accident (LTA) at their factory. According to the c...
News - 08 December 2003