Quarry Products

Miller Argent’s Ffos-y-fran mining facility in South Wales has reached the landmark figure of five million tonnes of processed coal. After seven…
Global demand for industrial silica sand is forecast to advance 5.6% a year to 289 million tonnes in 2018, according to US-based business research…
A 30% onsite fee discount is on offer to all those registering early to attend the co-located 2015 World of Asphalt Show & Conference and AGG1…
The Tamil Nadu state government has introduced a subsidised cement scheme dubbed Amma Cement, which will be priced at US$3 (INR 190) per 50kg bag.…
Ethiopia's Ministry of Industry has unveiled a draft Cement Industry Development Strategy prepared by Adama Science and Technology University.…
Malabar Cements (MCL) of India plans to import 1.32 million tonnes of limestone, sand, clinker, coal and other materials for production after the…
Turkish cement firm Sancim Bilecik Cimento (Sancim) has been acquired by Askale Cimento. The acquisition follows the recently aborted acquisition of…
HeidelbergCement is to sell its brick and roof-tile business to private equity firm Lone Star Funds for €1.17 billion (US$1.4 billion), as it looks…
Bruno Lafont will be CEO of the new company created by the multi-billion euro merger of Lafarge and Holcim. The naming of Lafont and the rest of the…
CEMEX says it has closed a series of transactions with Holcim, originally announced on August 28, 2013 and supplemented on October 30, 2014. The…