Without it, the energy boom will flow out of our leaky grid like oil from a bad cement-job.

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Whereas rich-world companies, such as Lafarge and Saint-Gobain, are investing in developing countries to increase sales of their cement and building products, Cemex is showing that the same thing can flow in reverse.

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