Cement News tagged under: international
Semapa’s Secil resumes output at Lebanon cement plant11 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsSecil, the cement division of Semapa SGPS, announced that the factory owned by its Ciment de Sibline affiliate south of Beirut in Lebanon has resumed production after escaping damage in the recent attacks on the country, Diario Economico reported. Secil has 28.6 per cent in Sibline, which has begun output at one of the two furnaces on the site, the business daily said. |
QNCC signs QR800mn deal for a cement plant11 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe Qatar National Cement Company (QNCC) has signed a QR800mn agreement with French major FCB Ciment for the building of its fourth cement manufacturing facility in Umm Bab. The agreement signing ceremony took place at the head office of the QNCC yesterday and was attended by senior officials of QNCC, FCB and their consultants, the Belgium-based Basse Sambre Engineering. To mark the agreement, QNCC chairman and managing director Salem Butti al-Naimi and Alain Cordonnier, chief executive off... |
Building with tears as cement prices, others escalate11 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsNigeria as the nation’s landscape is now dotted with a plethora of uncompleted or abandoned commercial and residential housing projects. The road to building construction and individual home ownership in the country has indeed become very cumbersome. Built environment experts who are beginning to develop goose dimples over the issue point to a number of factors as being responsible for this ugly development. They include: the high cost of land, no thanks to the Land Use Decree of 1978 wh... |
SA cement sales rising11 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsSouth Africa’s Cement and Concrete Institute, in their report for August, reported an increase of 9.7% in cement sales for the year to date. In the year to date in 2006, a total of 9.3 million tons were sold from 8.4 million tons in the same period last year. The current sales total included 113,594 tons of exports, down 34% from the 172,492 tons of exports in the comparable period of 2005. Domestic sales amounted to 8.5 million tons for the period, up from the 7.6 million tons in 2005, wi... |
Russian company buys Uzbek cement plant11 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsThe Russian company Eurocement Group has bought the Ohangarontsement joint-stock company, the second largest cement producing plant in Uzbekistan, the Vedomosti (Russian) newspaper reported on 21 August. The company’s representatives told our newspaper about this. The administration of the Ohangaron town also confirmed this. Sergey Marchenko has already been appointed its director-general, the newspaper reported. The paper did not cite any details of the deal. The main shareholders of the O... |
ACC to invest in east08 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsIndia’s second-biggest cement maker, Associated Cement Companies Ltd, plans to invest INR11bn ($238.6m) for expansion and setting up readymix concrete plants in eastern India, a senior official said on Thursday. The company will spend INR5bn over four years to build 50 readymix concrete plants, Ramit Budhraja, the company’s eastern region head, said. "The new plants will help us manufacture technologically advanced cement and will give us an edge over competitors," he said. "These plants ... |
Monthly consumption rises 21.5 per cent, Argentina08 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsArgentine production of Portland cement grew by 21.5% in August, compared with the same month of 2005. The increase is related with the expansion of the construction sector. The sales of cement to the domestic market have reached 822,596t in August, included the imports. This has involved a growth of 22.1% in comparison with August 2005. |
EU OKs Holcim unit buy of Foster Yeoman outside UK08 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsAggregate Industries, a unit of Holcim has won permission from the European Commission to buy Foster Yeoman’s operations for markets outside Britain, the EU executive announced on Thursday. But the Commission referred Holcim’s purchase of the privately held UK building materials group for markets inside Britain to Britain’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT). "The Commission believes that the OFT is best placed to assess the competitive impact of the case on the heavy building materials markets ... |
Cement set to rise by 15 per cent, UK08 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsContractors are set to be hit by massive cement price hikes over the next few months, according to a report by Contract Journal, UK. Lafarge Cement announced this week that it will slap a 15 per cent price increase on bagged cement from the beginning of next month and enforce a similar hike on bulk cement at the turn of the year. The move could see UK contractors pay an extra UK£60m for cement next year. The producer supplies more than six million tonnes of cement to sites around t... |
Vietnam Cement Corporation to be restructured08 September 2006, Published under Cement NewsVietnam Cement Corporation will reorganise under the parent-subsidiary model pursuant to a recent decision issued by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung. Decision No 196/2006/QD-TTg dated August 29 would provide that the parent company remain a State-owned enterprise managing production and business operations and responsible for maintaining State capital in the parent and subsidiary companies. Ten subsidiary companies will be equitised between 2006-10, with controlling interests ... |