September 19, 2014
The capacity of a cement plant to be built by Chinese company Hengyuan Group in the Orel region (Central Federal District) of Russia will total 2-2.5…
September 19, 2014
Lafarge Granulats France has appointed Olivier Guise as managing director for the provincial sector. He will be in charge of strengthening activity…
September 19, 2014
France's national ready mixed concrete union (SNBPE) has appointed Carole Jaillot as the head of its environmental commission. The position was…
September 19, 2014
The future quarry of Swiss cement group Holcim, which will open in Bayel (Aube) at the end of 2014 or start of 2015, will extract 1 million tonnes of…
September 16, 2014
In January of this year, the UK Competition and Markets Authority announced a shake-up in the cement industry requring Lafarge to sell off another…
September 16, 2014
Demelza Mulligan has assumed the role of managing director of Haver Southern Africa, succeeding Joachim Hoppe who directed Haver Southern Africa for…
September 16, 2014
Lafarge has sold its cement operations in the Urals region (Russia) to Buzzi Unicem for an enterprise value of €104 million. Lafarge UralCement…
September 15, 2014
French prefabricated concrete manufacturer SPL is to double production at its Laundal site, which was opened in 2010 and currently employs some 40…
September 15, 2014
Germany’s ready-mixed concrete (RMC) association Bundesverband der Deutschen Transportbetonindustrie (BTB) forecasts the production of RMC in the…
September 15, 2014
Cement company Holcim Nicaragua is said to rank third among other companies owned by the Swiss-based group in terms of its corporate social…
September 15, 2014
The Polish unit of the cement producer Lafarge has appointed Federico Tonetti as the new managing director. He will take over from Bruno Roux, who is…
September 15, 2014
The Swiss company Holcim will construct a new production line for semi-dry process at the Holcim (Rus) cement factory in Volsk (Saratov region, Volga…
September 15, 2014
A CNY 540 million (€67.91million/US$88.03 million) cement production project has been signed in Zhangjiajie City, Cili County, Hunan province, China…
September 15, 2014
A new type of road surfacing, called Poroelastic road surface (PERS), has been laid on a 15km stretch of the former E4 motorway near Linköping,…
September 15, 2014
Two facilities for building material production have been launched in the Kaluga region (Central Federal District). Omia Ural, the Swiss manufacturer…