Business News
The latest business and legislative news from around Europe
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11 March 2010
Nordkalk to reopen limestone quarry
Nordkalk plans to reopen the Ruonaoja Quarry in Kolari in northern Finland because new mining projects in northern Finland will create new markets for limestone-based products. .. Read more..
11 March 2010
Keestrack: major share in OMTrack
Keestrack, the Belgian manufacturer of track mobile screening plants has acquired a major share of the Italian manufacturer of track mobile crushers, OMTrack of Ponzano Veneto. Both c.. Read more..
10 March 2010
Italcementi unveils part of strategic plan
Italian cement group Italcementi CEO Carlo Pesenti has unveiled part of the company's strategic plan that will be presented to investors in September 2010, but as for the proposed merger with its .. Read more..
10 March 2010
French trio to recycle concrete
Cemex Bétons Sud-Ouest, CEMEX Granulats Sud-Ouest and Roy TP have come together to create a branch in Aquitaine, France, devoted to the recycling of concrete. The concrete wil.. Read more..
10 March 2010
Lafarge to expand market presence
The Lafarge Group intends to expand in Russia seeing the local market as "very promising." Alex de Valuhoff, Lafarge Cement CEO, says the group has two cement plants.. Read more..
09 March 2010
Net profits fall at Italcementi
talian cement group Italcementi posted net profits of €71.30 million in 2009, down on the €142.5 million in 2008. The gross operating profits decreased to &euro%.. Read more..
09 March 2010
Association for Latvian firms
Latvia's leading producers of construction materials, CEMEX, Sakret, Liepajas Metalurgs, Valmieras Stikla Skiedra, Tenax, Knauf, and Aeroc, have established the Association of Constr.. Read more..
08 March 2010
Construction materials slump in Leningrad
In 2009, the production of rocks and aggregates, which make up the largest part of construction materials, dropped by 20.5% to €542.67 million in the Leningrad region of Russia... Read more..
08 March 2010
Ciments Français's turnover drops
Cement manufacturer Ciments Français saw consolidated turnover fall 11.7% to €4.22 billion in 2009. Turnover rose in countries such as China, Egypt and Morocco although in the fou.. Read more..
08 March 2010
Lurgain proposes 21 job cuts
A labour force adjustment plan (ERE) at the Spanish pre-manufactured concrete products company, Prefabricados de Hormigon Lurgain, will make 21 out of 28 workers redundant at its plant in Uh.. Read more..
