Hodson's partner is Cimex, a government-owned conglomerate that owns 50%of the venture and is providing land, cheap labor and materials like cement.
Last spring, I posted a column on this blog arguing that, in the pharmaceutical business, the glass ceiling looks a bit like cement.
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Dangote started building his fortune over three decades ago by trading in commodities like cement, flour and sugar but became a billionaire by manufacturing these items.
Based in Dallas, Texas, Eagle is a manufacturer and distributor of building material and construction products like cement, gypsum wallboard, recycled paperboard, and concrete and aggregates.
Dangote began building his fortune more than three decades ago when he started trading in commodities like cement, flour and sugar with a loan he received from his maternal uncle.
Dangote started building his fortune more than three decades ago when he began trading in commodities like cement, flour and sugar with a loan he received from his maternal uncle.
Yet noble intentions do not, of themselves, move concrete, even rotting concrete like the cement-and-pine-cone slurry used to make the Elwha Dam, the first of the two structures to be built.
Commodity purveyors like paper, cement, chemicals and aluminum hold little upside price or demand leverage in 1998.
The mud solidified into a cement like mass that caused the well to stop flowing and then really STOP FLOWING.
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The extreme heat and pressures had caused the barite to form a cement like material that was hard to grind away.
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They are mainly big polluters like steelworks, cement plants and power generators.
Cement producers like Southdown (53, SDW) and wallboard maker USG Corp. (51, USG) trade at less than ten times forward earnings in a market where their main products are in short supply.
Without it, the energy boom will flow out of our leaky grid like oil from a bad cement-job.
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Among the areas she sees further gains are chemical stocks like Linde, industrials like Deutsche Post and Heidelberg Cement, and utilities such as E.
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According to his company's website, Mr Dini's industrial sized 3D printer uses sand and a special binding agent to create a "marble like material" stronger than cement.
For all the attention given to technologies like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, some of the greatest gains to be made in reducing the environmental risks of natural-gas production come from simple things like the proper pouring of cement well casings and the proper handling of chemicals and wastewater, so that they do not spill or seep into streams or water supplies.
The sidewalks of the town were gray in the early morning and at night, but the noon sun put a glaze on them, so that the cement burned and glittered like glass.
"I was digging down through this stuff, it was literally like banging your hammer on a frozen cement floor, " he recalls.
Influencing them away from those criteria is like trying to re-shape already dried cement.
To keep building sites fully staffed, unions are strengthening their apprenticeship programmes, with some success: programmes for cement masons, pipefitters and the like are said to be bursting.
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Most fund managers still like infrastructure -- power plants, telecommunications, cement, toll roads, ports and airports.
It had a colored rope, with a yellow handle, and you held the handle and walked pulling the cement mixer behind you rather like a wagon, although it was nowhere near the size of a wagon.
Like many conglomerates, Votorantim sees diversity as a shield: cement apart, its main businesses are internationally traded commodities subject to cylical swings.
The ultimate point is to enable Cemex employees to focus on selling more cement, rather than getting bogged down in things like completing a telephone call or wading through masses of paper to find important customer account data.
In addition, whereas barnacles just ooze out their cement, Crassicorophium processes its material in a spider-like spinning duct.
"You know you've got cement, concrete blocks and steel, and the ice goes through it like it's just a toothpick, " Dennis Stykalo, who also lost a home to the ice, told the CBC.
As in most oil states, Iraq's idea is to channel the crude oil wealth into the creation of refineries, steel mills, agriculture, cement factories, as well as sundry infrastructural programs--schools, hospitals, roads and the like.
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