Cement News tagged: International
Gujarat Ambuja’s Dec sales rise
Gujarat Ambuja cement has recorded a 11 per cent rise in cement despatches at 1.254Mt in December 2004 against 1.123Mt registered in the same month a year ago. Gujarat Ambuja said in a statement, the
Cement exports rise in Pakistan
The export of cement recorded an increase of 58.52 percent to 777,352t in the first half (July-December) of the current fiscal year compared to the same period last year, according to the data release
News from Andalas
Semen Andalas’ head of corporate communications Tri Rahman Batara says that its Lhonga plant had been seriously damaged by the 26 Dec tsunami that has claimed more than 94,000 lives in Aceh and
More plans from Vietnam
The State-owned Vietnam Cement Corporation has a plan to build a further eight cement plants and cement production lines. The new plants will include the Binh Phuoc Cement Plant in Binh Phuoc province
Indonesia’s Semen Gresik may cut cement exports
Indonesia’s largest cement maker PT Semen Gresik may have to ask its units PT Semen Padang and PT Semen Tonasa to cut exports to anticipate increasing demand from the tsunami-hit Aceh province,
Hong Kong-listed Anhui Conch raises stake
Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd (ACCCL) and its subsidiary, Huaining Conch, are to acquire for 131.32 mln yuan a total of 49 per cent stake in Shuangfeng Conch, a producer of cement and clinker in China, sa
Gujarat cement companies raise prices
In what could possibly be one of the highest price increases in a single day, cement manufacturers have joined hands to hike cement prices in Gujarat by a whopping Rs500 per tonne, or Rs25 per bag, fr
Garadagh Cement confirms upgrade
The executive board of Holcim is prepared to sanction the overhaul of the cement plant of the owned joint-stock company Garadagh Cement in Baku this year. Azer-press learned from the chairman of th
Holcim to help Tsunami victims
As a sign of its deep sense of shock at the immense scale of the natural disaster in Asia and a token of our solidarity with the people affected, Holcim Ltd has decided to make a donation of
Goldsun moves to tap mainland cement market
Goldsun Group, Taiwan’s largest concrete supplier, will invest 1.2 billion yuan (US$144m) to build two cement production lines in Yongding of East China’s Fujian Province. The company s
Lafarge unit plans capacity expansion
Lafarge Indian unit plans to spend INR4.50bn for a 2.5Mta capacity expansion at its plant in eastern Chhattisgarh state, reports the Economic Times. Lafarge will initially expand the
Tariff Commission to keep hearing cement firms’ plea
The Philippine Tariff Commission is bent on hearing a cement manufacturers’ appeal to extend safeguard duties versus imported gray Portland cement, noting that no temporary restraining order or
Grasim, ACC post higher December despatches
Aditya Birla group company Grasim has reported a 2.95 per cent rise in its domestic cement despatches at 1.141Mt for December 2004 over 1.108Mt in the same month last fiscal. Grasim’s cement pro
French Lafarge buys Ecuador N0: 2
French building materials group Lafarge has bought up German holding company Finlatam V GmbH, owner of about 99 per
Construction set to begin on five projects in Vietnam
The following are five major projects, which will begin to be built in the country this year:
First picture from devasted Andalas
Reports coming in from Indonesia’s Aceh province show evidence of the massive damage to the Lafarge Andalas plant on the west coast of Sumatera, less than 100km from the epicentre of the sub-sea