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Bergamo, 27 June 2009
Italcementi and Ciments Français announced, after their respective Boards of Directors meetings held on June 26, that the conditions they had set for their planned merger have not been met. 
 Press release
The new Italcementi Group “transparent cement” at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai
 The World Expo in Shanghai, which will take place from 1 May to 31 October 2010, will attract the participation of 200 countries and international organisations and about 70 million visitors. Italcementi Group will be the official supplier of the Pavilion and will build over 6,000 panels made of “transparent cement” that will cover 70-75% of the total surface, creating inside the building a sequence of lights and shadows in constant evolution during the day.
ITCLab designed by Richard Meier has won the Green Good Design Award 2009
 Bergamo, 17 June 2009
ITCLab, the new Italcementi Group Research Centre under construction on the outskirts of Bergamo, won prestigious international award.
The Chicago Athenaeum and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies presented the Green Good Design Award to the building designed by architect Richard Meier.
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The new line under construction at the Yerraguntla cement plant in Andhra Pradesh (India) is one of the strategic projects that Italcementi Group has confirmed as a priority for 2009 together with those at Ait Baha (Morocco), Martinsburg (North America) and Matera (Italy). Zuari Cement, the Indian subsidiary of Italcementi Group, is expanding the production capacity of its Yerraguntla plant by installing a second burning line with a designed production capacity of 2,3 Mill tons of cement per year and adopting top-of-range technical solutions with a particular focus on energy performance.
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