April 2, 2012
JCB has announced that former Jaguar Land Rover strategic business office director Michael Mohan has joined the company as group engineering director…
April 2, 2012
Turkey’s competition authority Rekabet Kurumu has announced an investigation of three Antalya-based cement companies following a sharp rise in cement…
April 2, 2012
Finlay Hire has boosted its waste management solutions with an agreement to buy a new Airtrac 3200 S from Iona Waste Systems signed at Hillhead last…
April 2, 2012
France-based mineral company Imerys is reported to have launched a takeover bid for the Luzenac talc quarry in Southern France. The company has made…
April 2, 2012
CRH has reported full year sales of €17.17billion for 2010, down just 1% from the previous year, although EBITDA has dropped 10% to €1.61billion for…
April 2, 2012
The impact of the recession is no excuse for quarry firms not to continue building on the solid foundation of health and safety they have developed…
April 2, 2012
Cemex France has celebrated the completion of its new 90m3 per hour concrete plant in Lille, France. The inauguration of the new facility means the…
April 2, 2012
Lafarge and Cantillana joint venture Coli Maçon has said that it wants to grow its market share in France’s packaged aggregates market to take the…
April 2, 2012
Cemex has extended its sand and gravel businesses in France and Germany with the buyout of two quarries. The company has acquired a sand and gravel…
April 2, 2012
Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment has announced the appointment of Scott Nelson as its new president for the Europe, Middle East and Africa…
April 2, 2012
Plans for Schotter- und Steinwerk Weißenburg (SSW) to establish a new quarry in Altmühltal, Germany has met with objections from an environmental…
April 2, 2012
Aggregate production in France fell to 335.8million tonnes in 2010, down from almost 348million tonnes in the previous year, according to the…
April 2, 2012
Lafarge UK has confirmed that it is to be the lead sponsor of the first Business of Biodiversity Conference which is due to be held at Excel in…
April 2, 2012
Poldim has lost out in the shortlist of companies qualified by the Polish Government for the final round of bidding to acquire an 85% stake in…
April 2, 2012
Lafarge has announced that it was the first company to subscibe to a new bond issue launched by Novacem last week. The UK-startup will use the £…