Sephaku Cement, the first indigenous player in South Africa’s cement industry of over 70 years, has signed up 1.95 billion rand ($222 million) of domestic debt funding for its 3.4 billion rand ($390 million) cement plant and clinker ...
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Spokespeople for ARM Cement, Kenya s second largest producer of cement behind Lafarge-owned Bamburi Ltd, said that the company is looking forward to a strong year on the back of its recently opened Dar es Salaam plant in Tanzania and the ...
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McGraw-Hill Construction,part of The McGraw-Hill Companies,presented the 2013 Dodge Construction Outlook at the 74th annual Outlook Executive Conference in Washington,D.C.,this week.The report predicts total U.S.construction starts in 2013 ...
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* Baosteel leaves November prices unchanged from October * Other major steel mills remain wary of demand SHANGHAI, Oct 11 (Reuters) - An unexpected price freeze by a top Chinese steel mill signals that other players in the world's biggest ...
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Holcim is to close its cement factory in the Hungarian city of Labatlan (N Hungary) by next year, communications director of Holcim Hungaria Zrt., Iren Marta told local press on Monday. According to reports in MTI, Holcim originally planned ...
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Al Jouf Cement currently has a production line cabale of producing 5, 000 tonnes per day (tpd) of cement and clinker. A second line is currently being added with the same capacity, and Box International is advising on a third. It will ...
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In partnership with the World Green Building Council, Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is enabling the development of more 'Green Buildings' by turning innovative and intelligent lighting solutions into people benefits in ...
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Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi(SCAD)issued its monthly report on the prices of building materials for the month of August 2012.The report presents an analysis of the movements in the prices of the various materials used in the construction ...
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Dubai Group is in talks to sell its 45 percent stake in a joint venture firm with cement maker Lafarge, two sources familiar with the matter said, as the state investment vehicle sells assets to repay its $10 billion debt pile. Lafarge ...
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Over the past years, the EU has put a lot of focus on designing legislations to increase the energy efficiency of buildings such as the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). Now that ...
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Exports of U.S.-made construction equipment grew 24 percent and totaled $13.7 billion for the first half of 2012 compared to January-June 2011, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). The off-road equipment ...
Capacity utilisation of the cement industry declined to 68.29 percent in the first two months of this fiscal year 2012-13, the lowest level seen in a decade as the demand of cement drastically decreased locally and for export purposes. The ...
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Cement makers in Oman have are to set to register double digit growth in their revenues in the second half of 2012, mainly due to growth in construction segment that has led to higher off-take of cement, Oman Daily Observer has reported. ...
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The Moulay el Hassan Bridge in Rabat, Morocco, is one of the longest and most modern bridges in the Alaouite Kingdom and is now illuminated thanks to GE Lighting’s Iberia LED, a versatile outdoor luminaire that combines design ...
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Statistics Centre - Abu Dhabi (SCAD) issued today its monthly report on the prices of building materials for the month of May 2012, which presents an analysis of the movements in the prices of the various materials used in the construction ...
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