Attock
Cement is a subsidiary of the Pharaon Group a group of companies with investments in
cement, oil and gas, power generation and information technology sectors.
Pakistan has a well-developed
cement industry with abundant raw material availability in the country.
In a briefing ahead of the stockholders meeting of parent conglomerate Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV) yesterday, Aboitiz said this
cement expansion program would be pursued partly by taking out factory bottlenecks to produce more
cement and partly by building new kilns, referring to the cylindrical machines used for the pyro-processing of
cement raw materials.
Over the time
cement industry of Pakistan has grown progressively.
Since the
cement market is an integral part of the construction segment, growth in this sector will result in the growth of the
cement market during the forecast period.
Asia
Cement (Asia) with this acquisition will also be able to secure a 100% stake in Lanfeng
Cement's wholly owned unit Sichuan Lanfeng Building Materials Co.
This report is the result of extensive market research covering the concrete and
cement market in the US.
Institutional investors believe both companies will see earnings continue to grow in the second half, with Taiwan
Cement predicting a 20% growth in earnings in the second half from the previous one.
Monteiro developed a model to determine how the chemical composition of each cylinder's
cement and the amount of water used to make the cylinder influenced the formation of cracks during sulfate exposure.
More than 30 states reported shortages of
cement in 2005.
The participants discussed some of the key barriers (geographic, environmental/health, regulatory and community) that prevent the use of industrial by-products as additives to
cement mixtures.
It has a greater fuel value than coal,'' said Don Unmacht, president of National
Cement.
Key words:
cement hydration; image analysis; microstructure; Plaster of Paris; visualization; x-ray microtomography.
2] As the
cement hardens, the reaction between calcium-aluminum fluorosilicate (a basic glass) and polymaleic acid is minimally exothermic.
The Mexican company, the third-largest
cement producer in the world, runs operations in Indonesia as well as in the Philippines and Singapore.