Domestic cement dispatches in Pakistan during February 2014 increased by 8.7% y/y compared with February 2013, totalling 2.135 million t – the highest figure ever recorded. A spokesperson for the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers ...
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Suez Cement and Italcementi s first waste treatment plant in Egypt was inaugurated this week. The project uses 45,000t of household waste to produce 35,000t of alternative fuel annually. Given Egypt s on-going fuel concerns the project will ...
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Vietnam s domestic sales declined by 18.6 per cent YoY in the first month of this year to 2.93Mt due to subdued real estate activity, the country s Ministry of Construction (MoC) has said. Exports during January 2014 totalled 820,000t, ...
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Sarawak s sole cement manufacturer CMS Cement Sdn Bhd, a unit of diversified Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd, is investing in a third cement grinding plant, which will boost its installed capacity by one million tonne to 2.75 million tonnes per ...
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Indonesian cement sales increased by 5.6 per cent in 2013, less than half the rate of growth of 14.5 per cent the year before, due to slower demand particularly outside the main consumption hub of Java. Domestic cement sales for the ...
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New construction projects are expected to increase demand for cement in coming months. Sales of cement companies dropped by 17 percent in November 2013 to 3.65 million tons compared to 4.37 million tons in the same period in 2012, local ...
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Buzzi Unicem has reported that its net sales have fallen by 3% year-on-year to Euro2.08bn for the first nine months in 2013. Cement sales volumes fared better with a 1.2% drop to 20.6Mt. For the third quarter of 2013 the Italy-based cement ...
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Domestic cement sales in Indonesia fell 5.8% y/y to 3.3 million t in August 2013. Cement sales fell a more drastic 32% month-on-month, but it should be noted that a two-week holiday in August following Ramadan would have significantly ...
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Poor cement sales in Portugal and Angola have reduced Semapa s net profit by 52.3% year-on-year to Euro39.3m for the first six months of 2013 from Euro82.3m in the same period in 2012. Sales in Portugal fell by 15.2% to Euro82.2m for the ...
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Cement sales in the first six months increased 6.18 percent to 10.13 million metric tons from 9.54 million MT in 2012, the Cement Manufacturer's Association of the Philippines said. The group attributed the healthy performance to the ...
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Pakistan Cement export posted an increase of some 12 percent, month-on-month, during the first month of current fiscal year 2013-14. According to July 2013 figures released by All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA), ...
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In the course of the first half of 2013, Titan further strengthened its fundamental financial metrics, increasing sales, generating positive free cash flow and further reducing net debt. The robust recovery in the USA and resilient demand ...
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Kenya s second-largest cement firm ARM Cement posted a 28 percent rise in first-half pretax profit helped by a rise in cement sales, and it forecast a strong performance for the second half of the year. The cement manufacturer, which ...
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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 ...
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Raysut Cement, one of two major listed cement manufacturers in Oman, has announced that its first quarter pre-tax profits grew by a third during the first quarter of 2013 to $23.7m (OR: 9.13m). The company s revenues grew by 2% to $65.5m ...
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