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ASEC Engineering, a Portfolio Company of ASEC Holding, has signed three 5-year contracts to manage new cement plants that will create over 750 jobs in Egypt’s Qena, Beni Suef and Assuit governorates
FLSmidth has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire 100% shareholding in Phillips Kiln Service. The deal is a natural extension of FLSmidth’s Customer Services business.
Lafarge has agreed with Boral to sell them its stake in their common Asian Gypsum joint venture for €429 million.
An MoU has been signed between the Nigerian Bauchi State government and C&C International from Florida, USA, to establish a cement company.
Votorantim Cimentos has reached an agreement with ANCAP to build a new cement plant in Uruguay, with an initial capacity of 750 000 tpa.
Irish Cement Limited has become the first company in the Republic of Ireland to gain certification to the Building Research Establishment BES 6001 Environmental & Sustainability standard for its Eco-Efficient CEM II range of products.
MIT researchers take a life-cycle approach to evaluating the real costs and environment impacts of infrastructure.
The EPA has decorated five Cemex plants in the US with an ENERGY STAR® award.
Hazemag has supplied Bim Son Cement Co., Vietnam, with a complete limestone crushing plant and a clay crushing plant.
Dangote Cement plc reports Q2 results and Lafarge Cement WAPCO Nigeria Plc produces first clinker from Ewekoro II plant.
Holcim Philippines has reported a hefty decline in first semester profit compared to last year, as cement weakened in the absence of election-related government spending that boosted sales in early 2010.
According to the Markit/CIPS Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index® (PMI®), UK construction companies reported a seventeenth successive rise in new business received during July.