Concrete Plants, Equipment & Applications

CEMEX is contributing to the reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral after the devastating fire that partly destroyed and ravaged the building, including the iconic church’s roof and spire.

The building materials company says it will match the donations made by its employees in France to Fondation du patrimoine (French Heritage Foundation), a private organisation dedicated to saving French cultural and natural heritage.

CEMEX adds that it will also assist in the reconstruction efforts with a range of t

Construction materials group Hanson is entering the final stages of its contract to supply specialist concrete for the Deansgate Square development in Manchester.

Hanson's Owen Street plant in the north west England city has supplied 110,000m3 of the concrete to the project's main contractor Renaker for use in the walls, floor, foundations and columns.

Once completed in Spring 2020, Deansgate Square will consist of four glazed towers – the tallest of which will be 64 storeys high and claimed to be th

Buy-and-build construction materials group SigmaRoc has acquired a 40% equity interest in GDH, a quarrying and construction materials group located in South Wales.

London, UK-based SigmaRoc says it intends to acquire the remaining 60% share by mid 2020.

GDH is one of Wales’s largest independent suppliers of aggregates. It operates out of six granite and limestone quarries – incorporating three asphalt plants. six concrete plants, and a wharf operation, as well as a civil engineering division deliveri

Building materials and solutions company LafargeHolcim plans to appoint three new members to its board.

The company's board of directors will propose the appointments of Colin Hall, Naina Lal Kidwai and Claudia Sender Ramirez for shareholders to approve at the upcoming Annual General Meeting on 15 May.

Two current board members - Nassef Sawiris and Gérard Lamarche - have decided not to stand for re-election to the board at the AGM.

Colin Hall has extensive experience in international finance and is

The venture capital unit of CEMEX has invested in LINKX, a company that offers specialised software for optimising the delivery of construction materials.

The LINKX software solution is designed to enable control of deliveries and vehicles in real time, allowing for data-based decision-making and facilitating communication and information among all involved parties (shipper, carrier and receiver).

LINKX, which currently operates in the Mexican and Spanish markets, says it is exploring new potential s

Italcementi, a subsidiary of building materials company HeidelbergCement, has signed contracts with Buzzi Unicem and Colacem about the disposals of cement plants in the northern and central region of Italy.

In a statement the companies involved said no details of the transactions would be disclosed for the time being.

“These divestments are part of our action plan to accelerate our portfolio optimisation,” said Dr Bernd Scheifele, chairman of the managing board of HeidelbergCement.

He added that th