Scaling New Heights
A new tower dominates the Dubai skyline, the GCC opts to create its own petro-currency and the UAE orders its first nuclear reactors.
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A new tower dominates the Dubai skyline, the GCC opts to create its own petro-currency and the UAE orders its first nuclear reactors.
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, and the CEO of Holcim Ltd, Markus Akermann, today signed a long-term agreement during the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland.
The Board of Oracle Coalfields PLC, the UK developer of a 1.4 billion t coal deposit in southern Pakistan, is pleased to announce that the company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Lucky Cement Limited, a major cement manufacturer and exporter based in Pakistan.
Lafarge North America, Inc. is to make improvements totalling US$170 million at 13 plants across the US. The EPA claims the company violated the Clean Air Act, and has hit back with a large fine.
Reports suggest that more than one tenth of container ships are lying idle, waiting for orders to sail.
The tracks of Jurrasic dinosaurs found in a quarry in Oxfordshire, England, in 1997 are to receive official protection
A new Gypsum Quality Protocol is set to raise market confidence in recycled gypsum and increase demand for waste plasterboard.
Negotiations are well advanced between the Cebu Energy Development Corporation (CEDC) on the possible sale of power plant coal ash to local cement plants.
Accredited Business Consolidators Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Envirocare Corp., secured funding for a proposed joint venture in Nicaragua with Green World Crete, Inc., for an environmentally friendly "green" concrete plant.
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. announced today that, in solidarity with the Haitian people, the company is responding to this humanitarian emergency by collaborating in relief efforts with the governments of Mexico and other countries, international institutions, and social organisations.
Fortress Group has embarked on shipping 100 000 t of cement to Cameroon, with the last of eight vessels heading for Cameroon in late December 2009.
The latest news from India on December shipment figures, expansion plans, financial results and coal import duty.