拉法基欲增加菲律賓水泥產(chǎn)能
在投資其它水泥公司之前，拉法基主要是擴(kuò)大和改善Fortune公司的設(shè)備。據(jù)中國水泥網(wǎng)了解，拉法基在菲律賓有5個水泥廠。
拉法基強(qiáng)調(diào)了菲律賓水泥進(jìn)口保護(hù)稅的必要性，該保護(hù)稅由菲律賓水泥協(xié)會提出。菲律賓對每袋（40公斤）進(jìn)口水泥征收15.60比索的保護(hù)關(guān)稅，該稅將延續(xù)到2008年。
原文：
Lafarge to hike cement capacity
Lafarge SA of France, the largest cement producer in the world, is pumping in P250 million worth of investments to raise by as much as 23 percent the capacity of one of its cement interests in the Philippines.
Lafarge Cement president Erdogan Pekenc told reporters during the joint general membership meeting of the Makati Business Club, the Philippine-France Business Council and Le Club (French Chamber of Commerce) that this would bring to P950 million its total investments in Fortune Cement Corp. over the past two years.
Pekenc said the company would spend P250 million this year to raise the output of the Fortune Cement to 3,200 tons per day from the existing capacity of 2,600 tons per day. This is on top of the P750 million the company invested last year to modernize the cement facility.
The French firm has so far pumped in $1 billion in the Philippines including the acquisition of Republic Cement Corp. and its subsidiaries Fortune Cement, Premier Cement, Iligan Cement, Mindanao Portland Cement and FR Cement.
Pekenc explained that the company is now focusing on expanding and modernizing the facilities of Fortune Cement before investing in the plants of the other cement companies.
Pekenc also stressed the need for the Philippine government to extend the safeguard duties imposed on all cement imports as petitioned by the Cement Manufacturers Association of the Philippines. The industry wants the P15.60 safeguard duty per 40-kilogram bag of imported cement that expired last year extended until 2008.
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