Cement News tagged under: international
Lafarge to offer lighthouse holidays?15 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsLafarge has paid more than UK£100,000 for a redundant East Lothian lighthouse put up for sale at the end of last year. The has its Dunbar factory on neighbouring land. The 40m-high Barns Ness lighthouse had marked the southern approach to the Firth of Forth for more than 100 years. Lafarge spokesman Chris Ettery said the company had no special plans for the lighthouse, but it would be properly maintained. Mr Ettery added: "We already own the former keepers’ cottages beside it, which are cur... |
Century Textiles reports fire at plant, India15 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsCentury Textiles & Industries Ltd has informed BSE that due to fire in electrical substation, cable and electrical equipment connecting the raw Mill & kilns got damaged on August 12, 2006 at the Company’s Century Cement plant at Baikunth, Dist. Raipur, in the State of Chhatisgarh. Consequent to it, Kilns producing the clinker at the said plant have become inoperative with effect from the said date, i.e. August 12, 2006. Due to fire, the production of clinker has stopped while the cement ... |
China’s top producers in 200515 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsFollowing is a list of the output of the top ten cement enterprises in 2005 as reported by China’s Cement Net: Anhui Conch Cement 43,.68Mt (Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi provinces) Shanshui Cement 19.429Mt (Shandong province). Sanshi Cement 13.70Mt (Zhejiang province) Huaxin Cement 13.33Mt (Hubei, Jiangsu, Hunan, Henan, Yunnan, Tibet) Jidong Cement 11.73Mt (Hebei, Jilin, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia) China United Cement 10.74Mt) (Shandon... |
US$3bn to reconstruct Lebanon15 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsFinancial experts are predicting that it will currently cost around US$3bn to rebuild Lebanon’s war ravaged infrastructure and buildings, reported Emirates Today. Financial experts believe that heavy investment from the Gulf will be crucial to helping Lebanon’s regeneration, as long as the UN sanctioned ceasefire is secure and maintained. Firms in the construction and cement sectors will be the initial beneficiaries of the reconstruction efforts. |
Higher costs and taxes will slow cement growth14 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsIncreasing power costs, railway tariffs and higher tax incidents coupled with poor coal quality will check the growth of the cement industry in the year 2006-07, which reported a 10 per cent rise in the corresponding previous year. A study, undertaken by Assocham on prospects of cement growth in 2006-07, highlights that electricity and coal account for as much as 60-70 per cent of the manufacturing cost of the domestic cement sector. Of these, electricity alone accounts for 40 per cent of... |
Magyar Cement preparing lawsuit against Holcim14 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsHungary’s Magyar Cement said Saturday that it is preparing a Euro 200m lawsuit against Holcim, in the Swiss courts. Magyar and Holcim have been locked in a dispute since the Swiss cement giant took over a 57 percent stake in the Hungarian company’s Hejoecsaba plant in 1994. Magyar said in a statement released in Zurich that it was ready to pursue its claim that the acquisition was fraudulent in a civil suit in Switzerland, where Holcim is based. "It is now up to the Holcim Board of Directo... |
China speeds up reshuffle of cement industry14 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsChina will designate ten major domestic cement enterprises and give them preferential policy support in project examination and approval, land use and loan use. Some industry experts say that the move indicates that China will speed up reshuffle of cement industry and raise production concentration of the industry. An additional 30 smaller units will enjoy priority support of local governments. The proposals have set objectives of the restructuring: 1. Production scale of top ten cement... |
US building materials still in short supply14 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsAlthough home builders in many parts of the USA are beginning to experience a decline in buyer demand, the shortage of some key building products is continuing. Chief among the products in tight supply is cement. Although residential-construction starts may be lower now than during the boom of the past five years, increased demand from public and commercial building is taking more and more cement. “U.S. cement plants are operating at maximum levels, as they did throughout 2004 and 2005,’’ ... |
Iran’s cooperation with Belarus14 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsDuring his recent visit to Belarus, Minister of Industries and Mines Alireza Tahmasbi signed four cooperation agreements with Belarus state officials. Director General of the International Relations Department of the Ministry of Industries and Mines Qader Soleymani said this on Sunday in a briefing to reporters on the outcome of Tahmasbi’s visit to Belarus. He said that according to a mutually inked agreement, Iran will build a cement factory in Belarus. "The basic framework of the cement pr... |
Lebanese cement supplies badly disrupted14 August 2006, Published under Cement NewsCement production in Lebanon has, not surprisingly ground to a halt throughout the country as continued Israeli attacks have made such strategic operations highly dangerous to operate. Holcim reports that due to the airstrikes in southern Lebanon and Beirut, it has had had to close a depot in Saida, as well as its two concrete plants in Beirut in the second half of July. By early August it also had to stop the plant in Chekka due to security reasons. Fortunately Holcim reports that no empl... |