December 19, 2012
Holcim Belgium, the Belgian division of Swiss cement manufacturer Holcim, is planning to close its brick grinding centre in Haccourt. The predicted…
December 19, 2012
French ecology minister Delphine Batho says the biodiversity commitments of the national union of aggregates producers (UNPG) conforms to the…
December 17, 2012
A fleet of Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) G-Series wheeled loaders are shifting 76,000tonnes of iron ore a day in the world’s largest…
December 17, 2012
Analysts at Citi have changed the recommendation on Lafarge from neutral to buy. Furthermore, Citi has increased the target share price for the…
December 17, 2012
The cement company Sociedad de Cementos y Materiales de Construccion (SCMC) based in Andalucía is to make 35 redundancies across its two plants in…
December 17, 2012
Finnish Elematic is to supply the world's biggest precast concrete plant to Iraq. The near €40 million order has been placed by South Korea's Hanwha…
December 17, 2012
Three workers unions in Spain have signed a collective agreement for the cement sector in Alava, which will include a wage rise of 1.4% in 2013 and…
December 17, 2012
Lafarge has invested €6.2 million (£5mn) in a bid to reduce emissions at its Cookstown Works cement plant in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The bulk of…
December 17, 2012
Granit is to build a mining and processing plant at its Sitnitskoye deposit in Belarus. The site, which will have three road metal production lines…
December 17, 2012
Finnish concrete company Lujabetoni's new fast-drying concrete is said by the firm to be able to reduce problems with damp and indoor air quality…
December 17, 2012
Finnish concrete company Lujabetoni's new fast-drying concrete is said by the firm to be able to reduce problems with damp and indoor air quality…
December 14, 2012
Russian construction and building materials company LSR plans to upgrade its construction materials plants in the Urals. The company plans to invest…
December 14, 2012
Polish aggregate supplier Dolnoslaskie Surowce Skalne (DSS) recorded a net loss of €5.61 million over the first three quarters of 2012. The loss was…
December 14, 2012
Italian cement producer Italcementi has introduced a temporary lay-off scheme for up to 665 workers in a bid to cut costs. Two-thirds of the scheme’s…
December 12, 2012
In Spain the Escuela Politecnica Superior de Linares, part of the University of Jaen, is developing bricks made from waste paper, which could bring…
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