CEMENT MANUFACTURING

Cement manufacturing process from CEMBUREAU

Cement manufacturing process from OFICEMEN in Spannish

Cement manufacturing from understanding-cement.com



CEMENT ASSOCIATIONS

BDZ (Germany)

Brazilian Portland Cement Association

British Cement Association, United Kingdom

Cembureau (Europe) Cement and Concrete Institute

Cement Association of Canada

FEBELCEM (Belgium)

Indonesian Cement Association

Portland Cement Association (USA)

Swedish Concrete Association

Association of the Swiss Cement Industry

Polish Cement Association

Austrian Cement Association

Hellenic Cement Industry Association (Greece)

Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association

Instituto Boliviano del Cemento y el Hormigon

Instituto del Cemento y del Hormigon de Chile

Instituto Colombian de Productores de Cemento

Instituto Mexicano del Cemento y del Concreto

Asociacion de Productores de Cemento - Peru

Cement and Concrete Association of Australia

Cement and Concrete Association of New Zealand

China Building Materials Academy

Japan Cement Association

Cement and Concrete Association of Malaysia  

Cement and Concrete Institute (South Africa)

Caribbean Cement Producers Association

Instituto Español del Cimento y sus Aplicaciones (Spannish)



CEMENT TYPES AND STANDARDS


American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

ASTM C150  Standard

BIS Indian Standard -  News

BIS Indian Standard -  Home page

Types of Cement in India from business.mapsofindia.com

SABS South African Standard -  Home page

Standards and nomenclature from British Cement Association

Types of cements and properties from British Cement Association

European Standards for cement form CEN from European Comittee for Standardization - search for cement

European Standard EN 197-1/2000 - National Implementation

Gost 10178-85  Russian Cement specifications in Russian from Trilog.ru

Gost 10178-85  Russian Cement specifications from Trilog.ru - English google translation



STATISTICS AND REPORTS


Cembureau Activity Report 2006

World production of cement from USGS

Background Facts and Issues Concerning Cement and Cement Data from USGS

Cement statistics since the year of 1900 from USGS

Monthly data on the shipments of cement to final USA customers, and the production of clinker, in the United States from January 2006 through July 2007 from USGS

USA Building Materials Index compared with Dow Jones, SP500 and Nasdaq Index form finance.yahoo.com

USA Cement Companies Index compared with Dow Jones, SP500 and Nasdaq Index form finance.yahoo.com
 
Economic, Construction, Cement and Concrete statisitis state by state in the USA from Portland Cement Association

Overview of the cement industry in USA from tradegov.com

Overview of the cement industry in India from indiainbusiness.nic.in

Overview of the cement industry in the Middle East from Worldcement.com



INTERNATIONAL TRADING


International Chamber of Commerce

The Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP) from Wikipedia

SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance) web site

Definitions and clarification of international trading topics from export911.com

Basics on Letters of Credit from Wikipedia

The Letter of Credit Forum

Text of ISP 98 with rules to be applicable to Stand By Letters of Credit from The Letter of Credit Forum

Text of UCP 500 with rules to be applicable to Letters of Credit from The Letter of Credit Forum

Text of UCP 600 with rules to be applicable to Letters of Credit from The Letter of Credit Forum

List of SWIFTStandards MT and SWIFTStandards MX from swift.com

Swift Field 700/701 Definitions for Letters of Credit from internetlc.com

Glossary of LC related terms from mantissa.co.uk

Example of a Letter of Credit from export911.com

Trade Glossary and several Trading links from InternetLC.com

Basics on Bill of Lading from Wikipedia

Example of an Ocean Bill of Lading from export911.com

INCOTERMS 2000  from ICC web site

INCOTERMS 2000  Wallchart from ICC web site

INCOTERMS 2000  from International Business Training

Basics on Certificate of Origin from Letter of Credit Forum

Basics on Force Majeure from Wikipedia

Basics on Law Merchant (Lex Mercatoria) from Wikipedia

Lex Mercatoria web site

Top World 50 Banks from Bankersalmanac.com

Directory of World Ports from Worldstonex.com

List of World Sea Ports from Wikipedia

International Association of Ports and Harbors

World Ports location with sateliite view from worldportsource.com

Freight and Shipping

Information System for the Transport Community

Maritime Companies, Sites and Services

World Shipping Directory from ship.gr

Flags of the shipping companies from crwflags.com

Maritime directory from m-i-link.com

Shipping news from CargonewsAsia

The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control

Glossary of Shipping terms from marad.dot.gov



CEMENT PRICES


Latest cement prices news by Google News

Cement and Clinker Imports CIF USA July 2007 from USGS (see pages 24-27)

Monthly Statistics of Building Materials and Components in the United Kingdom  from berr.gov.uk



CEMENT NEWS


Latest cement news by Google News

Cement news from BBC's web site

Cement news from allAfrica.com

Cement news from zibb.com

Cement news Indian market from ibef.org

Cement news from Worldcement.com

Cement news (USA) from Bizjournals.com




CEMENT AND ENVIRONMENT


The Cement Sustainability Initiative

The Sustainable Cement Project from The United Nations Environment Programme web site

Making Cement Sustainable from The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Cement and Concrete Environmental Consideration from BuildGreen.com

Cement Environmental Impact on Air Quality from Envorinment Canada

CO2 Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Cement Industry 2005 from gispri.or.jp / wbcsd.org

2006 Canadian Cement Industry Sustainability Report from the Cement Association of Canada

Cement Task Force - Action Plan from the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate



OTHER USEFUL LINKS


Cement Glossary from Portland Cement Association

Interesting information about cement from understanding-cement.com

Health Risks and Precautions in Using Portland Cement from cdc.gov

Useful links for Architecture, Construction and Engineering  from National Building Specification (UK)

Directory for Architecure, Engineering and Construction (Spain)

Cement in Wikipedia

Clinker in Wikipedia

Historical Timeline of Concrete from duc.auburn.edu

Concrete basics from Portland Cement Association

Coal in the cement industry from The World Coal Institute

Frequently asked questions about cement and concrete from Portland Cement Association

Database of geographic coordinate information. Tageo.com provides information about 2,667,417 cities in the whole

Online translations from google.com

Online translations from altavista.com

All the counties of the World from Nations on Line

World Weather from The Weather Network

World Weather from UM Weather

Current local time in most cities of the world

Explore, Search and Discover the World with Google Earth


Exchange rates from x-rates.com

Exchange Rates Charts and Graphs from xe.com