May 22, 2015
Hope Construction Materials, Britain’s leading independent supplier of construction materials, has announced a major investment in rail…
May 22, 2015
CarbonCure Technologies, a Canadian green technology company serving the concrete sector, has closed a $3 million Series C investment round.…
May 22, 2015
Natural stone production specialist Cupa Stone its sixth Spanish distribution centre in Spain. Costing €1 million, the 1,500m² centre in Padron will…
May 21, 2015
Lafarge CEO Bruno Lafont has been awarded a €2.5m bonus for his efforts to secure the merger deal between the French cement giant and Swiss…
May 20, 2015
Terex Finlay has appointed Rik Kiddle as the internationally renowned crushing and screening firm’s global business development and sales director.…
May 20, 2015
Spanish building materials firm Uralita’s losses rose by 18.1% to €18.9 million in Q1 2015, compared to the same period of 2014, due to its financing…
May 20, 2015
PPC, South Africa's largest cement manufacturer, recorded 9.2% sales growth to US$377.91 million (ZAR 4.5 billion) in the six months to March 2015.…
May 20, 2015
Lafarge, the French cement giant, has received seven expressions of interests for the acquisition of two of its assets in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand…
May 20, 2015
Finning, the exclusive UK Caterpillar dealer, has now supplied its second remote control machine to metals and minerals specialists Harsco. The Cat…
May 20, 2015
Cement giant Lafarge plan to axe 380 jobs and fellow sector giant Holcim is cutting around 120 jobs in a “key phase” of preparations for the merger…
May 19, 2015
Plans for an eight-hectare expansion of Lafarge Tarmac’s Mountsorrel granite quarry in county Leicestershire, central England, have been approved.
May 19, 2015
Although Lafarge and Holcim have agreed revised terms to allow their €42 billion merger to go ahead, it is not yet a done deal. The companies have…
May 19, 2015
IronPlanet, the world’s leading online auction platform for buying and selling used construction equipment, has been demonstrating its flexible…
May 19, 2015
South African cement producers have welcomed the imposition of provisional anti-dumping duties on Pakistani cement imports. Following an…
May 18, 2015
Eagle Materials, the US-based cement and other building materials company, reported revenues up 19% to US$1.1billion in its financial results for…