Cement, Energy & Environment

3. Dumping the market with imported cement and its effect on Iraqi cement marketing and supporting the Iraqi cement through activating the Domestic Product Act and the application of the law on customs tariff. 4. Modern technologies in the cement industry. Cement Factories in Iraq It is worth mentioning that the number of governmental plants and the private sector in Iraq is (21) as mentioned below:- 1. Tasluge Cement Plant! French Lafarge Company. 2. Bazian Cement Plant! French Lafarge Company. 3. MAS Cement Factory/ MAS Iraq for Industrial Investment. 4. Doh Cement Plant/ AL-Doh AL-Iraqi Cement Company. Northern Cement State Company 5. Old Badush Cement Plant 6. New Badoosh Cement Plant 7. The Second expansion of Badush Cement Plant 8. New hammam AI-Aiil Cement Plant 9. Old Hammam AI-Aiil Cement Plant 10. Sinjar Cement Plant Iraqi Cement State Company 11. Kirkuk Cement Plant 12. Fallujah Cement Plant 13. Kubaisa Cement Plant I (Investor) the pioneer contracting and Trading Company 14. AI-Qaim Cement Plant! (Investor) AI– Maysarah General Trading C. Ltd. Southern Cement State Company 15. Kufa Cement Plant 16. Najaf Ashraf Cement Plant 17. Karbala Cement plant! (Investor) pioneer and the French Company Lafarge. 18. Muthanna Cement Plant 19. Samawah Cement Plant 20. Babylon Cement Plant 21. Basrah Cement Plant The conference included two sessions. In the first session two papers were presented : 1. Partnership contracts : an investment aspects in the cement industry; 2. Investment in partnership contracts with private sector. The Second session included three papers: 1. Impact of imported cement on local cement producers; 2. Dumping the Iraqi markets with imported cement; 3. Modern technologies in the cement industry. Those papers enrich the interventions made during the conference sessions in coming out with recommendations to achieve the desired aims of the conference. The conference was produced and organized by: 1. Iraqi Cement State Company 2. AI-Maysara General Trading Co. Ltd. Courtesy: Cement and Building Materials Review, June 2013, Pp 20-21. Corporate Social Responsibility ONLY 1% OF COMPANIES NEED TO FOLLOW CSR SPENDING NORMS India might be among the first in the world to make social welfare spending by companies part of the law but new norms would be applicable only on about 1% of total active companies in the country. The new Companies Bill, which was approved by Parliament after a long wait on August 8, requires companies to shell out 2% of three-year average annual profit towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. The CSR norms, that would come into effect once the President gives his assent, would be applicable to companies having either net worth of Rs 500 crore or more; turnover of Rs 1,000 crore or more; or net profit of Rs 5 crore or more. It is estimated that around 8,000 companies would fall under the ambit of the clause 135 of the Companies Bill, 2012," consultancy Ernst & Young's Executive Director and Leader (Development Advisory Services) Paru l Soni told PTI. Even though there are more than 13.29 lakh companies registered in the country, only nearly 9 lakh entities are active. Going by the numbers, it would imply that only around one% of companies would be required to follow the CSR norms. Courtesy: The Hindu Business Line, New Delhi, 12.08.2013 52 -, /