Saudi Arabia s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, has approved plans to set up a new cement supplier in the capital city, Riyadh. Umm-Al-Qura Cement will be set up with a capital of SR: 200m provided ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Marathon Oil's newly announced CEO will bring international experience to enhance the company's global operations, analysts said Thursday. Long-time leader Clarence Cazalot is stepping down as president and CEO on August 1, after 14 years ...
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AkzoNobel has supplied high performance coatings systems for half of the stadiums being used at this month's FIFA Confederations Cup football tournament in Brazil. Being staged from June 15 to 30, the three stadiums to feature the ...
Tags: Coating, Construction, Decoration
A long-standing dispute over the problems surrounding Kenya's sole refinery in Mombasa is escalating, triggering fears the country could lose clout as an investment magnet for neighboring countries. A financial crisis at the aging plant ...
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Bayer MaterialScience has inaugurated a regional innovation hub for Asia Pacific in Shanghai, China. More than 200 experts will develop novel ideas for the use of high-performance plastics, foams and coatings in key sectors such as ...
The Romanian cement market declined 0.2 percent in 2012 owing to bad weather and an unfavorable economic context, and this year seems no better as yet. Any growth by yearend will be small, and could only come from infrastructure investments ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Grupo Abayak AKOGA Cemento cc. has awarded FLSmidth a contract for the supply of a 3000 tpd greenfield cement plant. The plant will be built in Akoga on the mainland of Equatorial Guinea. The contract, which is worth around EUR68 million, ...
Tags: FLSmidth, Cement Plant, Equatorial Guinea
May 9, 2013 - Skilled worker training centres that are a partnership of labour and management are found to be more successful in helping apprentices become journeypersons, says a new study commissioned by the Ontario Construction ...
May 6, 2013 - The Ontario government says it is improving how the province plans and builds large energy infrastructure projects going forward; it has asked the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) and Ontario Power Authority ...
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Hail Cement Company has announced that it has begun full commercial operations at its newly-developed cement plant yesterday. The company raised around $130m when its shares were floated on the stock exchange in 2011 through the sale of ...
Tags: Cement Plant, Cement, Construction
Royal Dutch Shell, Japan's Mitsubishi and Iraqi state-owned South Gas Company have launched a long-delayed project to capture and market gas from some of Iraq's biggest oil fields, Shell said Wednesday, adding that it would be the largest ...
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The Australasian Railway Association welcomed the release of draft legislation for new tax incentives that will promote investment in public infrastructure. "Any initiative that will encourage private sector investment into major ...
The NSW Government has leased Port Botany and Port Kembla on a 99-year contract. Following a six-month competitive bidding process, the 99-year lease of state-owned port assets at Port Botany and Port Kembla has been awarded to the NSW ...
Russia's Gazprom and Dutch company Gasunie have signed an agreement to explore the possibility of expanding the Nord Stream gas pipeline as well as setting up other gas infrastructure projects in Northwest Europe and the UK, the companies ...
Tags: gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Sundeep Rao, director of Oman-based Sohar Steel, which produces rebars, coated rebars and weld mesh, has answered SteelOrbis' questions regarding the market outlook and Sohar Steel's operations. What is the situation regarding Sohar ...
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