The second recommended that only cement-based prostheses should be used for total hip replacements.

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At the time, NICE said there was not enough evidence to support the use of non-cement based prostheses are effective.

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Eagle Materials Inc. is a Dallas-based company that manufactures and distributes cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard and concrete and aggregates.

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The Quinn Group cement and quarrying business is in talks to merge with part of the Belfast-based Lagan group.

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Just look at Cemex (nyse: CX - news - people ), one of the largest cement companies in the world and based in Monterrey, Mexico.

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It was the province's largest enterprise, and its 1995 acquisition by East Java-based Gresik in a government-directed consolidation of state-owned cement plants was a traumatic experience for West Sumatra.

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Unusual because the would-be conserver is not Mexico's government but Cemex, a giant cement firm based in the northern city of Monterrey.

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