March 26, 2012
Holcim has been allowed to completely replace conventional fuels with waste when making cement at its production plant in Sehnde-Höver near Hanover,…
March 26, 2012
Cement demand in Germany will not grow in 2012, according to national cement industry association Verein Deutscher Zementwerke (VDZ). In 2011, demand…
March 26, 2012
Lafarge’s energy consumption from waste rose to 15% last year, compared to 11.7% in 2010. The French construction materials group has spent several…
March 26, 2012
A decrease in aggregates markets during the recession has resulted in more than 100 pits and quarries closing over the last two years. This is one of…
March 26, 2012
Dyfrig James, regional president for Northern and Central Europe for Lafarge’s Aggregates, Concrete and Paving business, has been appointed chairman…
March 26, 2012
HeidelbergCement has secured an extension of its €3 billion syndicated credit facility, which was due to mature at the end of 2013, until 31 December…
March 26, 2012
World demand for cement and concrete additives is projected to increase 8.35% annually to US$15.8 billion in 2015, a significant improvement over the…
March 26, 2012
The UK asphalt market increased by over 5% in 2010 but the market has already started to turn lower, claims industry experts BDS Marketing Research,…
March 26, 2012
The upgrading of Lunsin Mining Company’s Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk cement plant is under way. The Russian plant, launched in 2011, produced 7,000 tons of…
March 26, 2012
German building materials manufacturer HeidelbergCement has secured an extension of its €3bn syndicated credit facility. The facility has been…
March 26, 2012
Latest figures from Cemex show that the company’s consolidated net sales increased by 6% during the fourth quarter of 2011 to approximately US$3.…
March 26, 2012
Vicat achieved a 12.5% rise in consolidated sales in 2011, according to new figures published by the French building materials group. Expansion in…
March 26, 2012
Lafarge is axing 460 jobs as part of a reorganisation of its worldwide corporate division. The French building material group says 90 of the job…
March 26, 2012
According to Infocemento figures, cement consumption in Spain totalled 14.5million tonnes during the first eight months of 2011, which represents a…
March 26, 2012
Overall Sandvik's business was stable in the fourth quarter with good performance especially in Sandvik Tooling but also in Sandvik Mining and…
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