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		<title><![CDATA[Lafarge "Safety Month" Highlights Importance of Safe Workplace for Employees, Subcontractors, Companies and Communities]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HERNDON, Va. -- This month, Lafarge North America Inc. - part of the Lafarge Group, the world leader in building materials - is holding "Safety Month" at its 1,000 plus sites throughout North America. At each site, management is seeking to raise awareness among employees, subcontractors and the local community...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lafarge North America has 39,000 tons of cement stockpiled at the]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lafarge North America has roughly 39,000 tons of cement stockpiled at the Port of Milwaukee.   Bruce Scott, Lafarge's senior terminal manager at the port, hopes that stockpile lasts until March.   Every winter, the barges that carry cement to Milwaukee dock in a harbor and wait for...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nordson Corp., Duluth, Ga. -- Linda Ray recently joined as global business development mgr. for new markets in the Adhesive Systems Group. Ray comes to Nordson from Lafarge North America where she had strategic and business development responsibilities.  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lafarge Breaking Ground into a More Prosperous Future for Silver Grove, Kentucky, an Industrial Info News Alert]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SUGAR LAND, Texas -- Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). The new proposal came just five years after the $94 million, 500,000-square-foot drywall plant opened in mid-2000, becoming the largest drywall plant in North America. Now, Lafarge North America, Incorporated (NYSE & TSX:LAF) is expected to add 100...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NEWS BRIEFS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lafarge North America has applied for a permit to upgrade and expand its cement plant in Joppa, IL. The $420-million upgrade would expand the plant's capacity to 2.7 Mt/a (3 million stpy). It would include two new kilns. Construction could begin in late summer and be completed in about two-and-a-half...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Federal officials investigating VA-based LaFarge North America Inc.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LaFarge North America Inc., of Herndon, Va., a subsidiary of a French concrete and building materials company, said it is being investigated by federal officials probing government contractors. LaFarge, which has several quarries and other operations in Maryland, said its western New York offices were searched by federal agents on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Waste not]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utilizing blast-furnace slag from iron manufacturing, NewCem hydraulic cement helps to achieve low permeability: improved workability: lower setting temperatures; and resistance to chemical reactions. Lafarge North America. 678.746.2000. www.lafargenorthamerica.com. Circle 186  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lafarge Successfully Completes Cash Tender Offer for Lafarge North America]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS -- Lafarge, the world leader in building materials, has today announced that it has successfully completed its cash tender offer for the 46.8% minority stake in Lafarge North America (NYSE & TSX: LAF) that it did not previously own. Lafarge now holds approximately 92.37% of the shares of Lafarge...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lafarge Increases Offer for Outstanding Minority Shares of Lafarge North America to $85.50 Per Share; Special Committee of Lafarge North America Resolves to Recommend Revised Offer]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS -- Lafarge, the world leader in building materials, today announced that it will amend its cash tender offer (the "Offer") for the remaining 46.8% minority stake in Lafarge North America (NYSE & TSX: LAF) that it does not own by increasing the offer price to $85.50 per share. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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