cement

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.