September 1, 2015
To help redress the severe shortage of trained service technicians for construction equipment and trucks in Ethiopia, Volvo launched a new vehicle…
August 28, 2015
Terex Trucks has appointed three additional regional managers in aftermarket and customer support as part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to support…
August 28, 2015
After two months of a decline, sales of cement in Morocco rose 4.39% in July, 2015. Sales since the start of the year are down 0.77%. In the first…
August 28, 2015
Dangote Cement and Chinese company Sinoma International Engineering have signed deals to construct cement plants across Africa. The plants will add…
August 28, 2015
Tokyo Cement Company (Sri Lanka) has called on the Sri Lankan government to fix an alleged policy mismatch resulting in what managing director SR…
August 28, 2015
DEUTZ, the Cologne, Germany-based engine manufacturer, has produced the nine millionth engine of its 150-year-plus history. The company says that…
August 27, 2015
World demand for cement is projected to rise 4.5% per year to 5.2 billion tonnes in 2019, according to a new study by the US-based Freedonia Group.…
August 27, 2015
CRH CEO Albert Manifold says the construction materials giant is on track to deliver “another year of growth” after the firm’s H1 2015 reported sales…
August 27, 2015
For the third time HeidelbergCement has initiated the Quarry Life Award, an international scientific and educational competition to find new ideas…
August 26, 2015
Tanzania Portland Cement, which trades as Twiga on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, posted a H1 2015 net profit of TZS22.17 billion (US$10.4 million…
August 26, 2015
The global white cement market is expected to exhibit moderate growth in the short and medium terms driven by the revival of the global construction…
August 26, 2015
Sika Srbija , the Swiss-owned materials company for the construction sector in Serbia, has reported that it registered a 25% sales increase in H1 of…
August 26, 2015
It has been reported that the Belgian company Karmeus is planning to invest a total of €7 million (US$7.97 million) in the Serbian plaster factory…
August 26, 2015
The latest Builders Merchants Panel from GfK shows that general builders merchants in the UK saw sales increase by 12.8% in the second quarter of…
August 26, 2015
Between 26 August 2015 and 23 October 2015, Taiwan-based Taiwan Goldsun Building Materials (Goldsun Building) will be repurchasing 100 million of its…