Brazil's Economic Rights Secretariat (SED) launched an investigation into 10 of the country's leading cement producers, including Votorantim, Camargo Correa, Lafarge, Holcim, Soeicom, Itambe, CP Cimento, Grupo Nassau, Cimpor and Ciplan.Brazil's Economic Rights Secretariat Secretariat, 1970–89, thoroughbred race horse. Trained by Lucien Laurin and ridden by Ron Turcotte, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes to capture the Triple Crown in 1973. Secretariat (foaled 1970) U.S. (SED (1) (Stream EDitor) A Unix text editor that processes an entire file. It is the stream-oriented version of ed, an earlier text editor. Sed executes ed commands, but instead of editing one line at a time, sed applies the commands to the whole file. ) launched an investigation into 10 of the country's leading cement cement, binding material used in construction and engineering, often called hydraulic cement, typically made by heating a mixture of limestone and clay until it almost fuses and then grinding it to a fine powder. producers, including Votorantim, Camargo Correa, Lafarge, Holcim, Soeicom, Itambe, CP Cimento, Grupo Nassau, Cimpor and Ciplan. The companies are being accused of having conspired to reduce the supply of cement to the country's concrete makers, influencing market prices. If found guilty, the cement companies could be fined as much as US$825 million. |
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