June 17, 2014
Amit Bhatia, chairman of Hope Construction Materials, has been crowned Young Director of the Year for London and the South-East alongside Ross…
June 17, 2014
The UK’s largest independent aggregates business, Breedon Aggregates, has purchased five new Cat K-Series wheeled loaders from Finning to support its…
June 12, 2014
The French financial markets authority (AMF) has approved the simplified tender offer from Italian cement group Italcementi for French construction…
June 12, 2014
India's Adhunik Cement has been accused of operating a plant in Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya since 2008 without ever receiving clearance from the…
June 12, 2014
Mexico’s Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) and the Government of Nuevo Leon have highlighted the efforts implemented…
June 12, 2014
A total of CAD 350 million (€235.36 million) will be invested by Quebec into a limestone deposit to be developed by Canada's McInnis Cement in Port-…
June 12, 2014
For the second time in three years, Track Tec of Poland has won a tender to supply concrete sleepers to Tramwaje Warszawskie, the tram company in the…
June 12, 2014
Mexican cement company Cemex has revealed that it aims to swap US$55 million (€40 million) worth of Cemex bonds, due to expire in 2015, for 5.5…
June 12, 2014
Jamshed Naval Cooper has been named chief operating officer of HeidelbergCement India (HCIL). Cooper was formerly director (sales and marketing) for…
June 12, 2014
Lafarge Wapco, the Nigerian subsidiary of French cement producer Lafarge is planning to raise NGN 100 billion (€446.74 million) by issuing debts or…
June 12, 2014
Italian investment holding Italmobiliare has decreased its stake in Italcementi, the Italian building materials producers, from 60.262%, retained…
June 12, 2014
Holcim US has plans to invest US$100 million (€74 million) in a modernisation of its Ada, Oklahoma cement plant. The company, one of the largest…
June 12, 2014
Finnish construction and infrastructure company Lemminkäinen has concluded its employer-employee negotiations and is cutting a maximum of 265 man-…
June 12, 2014
The Spanish concrete structures producer Prephor, which manufactures products for the electricity and telecom sectors mainly, is to make 27 redundant…
June 12, 2014
In Romania, the top three largest cement producers HeidelbergCement (Germany), Lafarge (France) and Holcim (Switzerland) are reported as recording a…