The cement industry is largely controlled by one player--Cemex--and its billionaire chief, Lorenzo Zambrano.
Jobs have been lost in the local cement industry and it has been tough to attract the investment to replace them.
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The cement industry is largely controlled by one player-- Cemex (nyse: CX - news - people )--and its billionaire chief, Lorenzo Zambrano.
"As we saw the consolidation of the cement industry in Europe and America happening in Asia, we said we have to be there, " explains Medina.
There are allegations of cartels working in the cement industry and sections of the media have been blamed for publishing and broadcasting news for money.
When a wool carpet surpasses its utility, it gets turned into secondary fuel for the cement industry, and the leftover chalk gets used for backing carpet tiles.
Anas claims credit for nursing Padang out of financial difficulties in the 1970s, and urges Jakarta to give the cement industry the opportunity to save itself - without handing it over to foreigners.
Just days earlier the president had taken a similar decision in relation to the cement industry: three foreign transnationals Mexico's Cemex, France's Lafarge, and Holcim of Switzerland which supply most of the local market, are being offered a joint-venture scheme like the one applied last year to the oil companies in the Orinoco heavy-oil belt.
True understanding of cement came from the oil industry over the last hundred-plus years and without cement, there would be no drilling.
It makes steel bars which reinforce cement used in the construction industry - no doubt the downturn in building projects hasn't helped the company's fortunes.
Born in Cuba, he was a financial manager at a cement company when Fidel nationalized private industry.
He says the asbestos industry must be aware of how their cement sheets are really used.
For example, the report said the Bureau should work with industry to develop a standardized procedure for a critical test of cement barriers, with a guide on how the results should be interpreted.
Bartlit emphasized in his letter Thursday that cementing failures are a known hazard in the oil industry, with specific tests such as a "negative pressure test" and "cement evaluation logs" designed to identify cementing problems.
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