Holcim celebrates centenary

Holcim has celebrated 100 years of operation in the Netherlands and Belgium by announcing plans to ensure it is still working in the region 100 years from now.

March 12, 2012 Read time: 1 min

680 Holcim has celebrated 100 years of operation in the Netherlands and Belgium by announcing plans to ensure it is still working in the region 100 years from now. The company has said that it plans to invest up to €600million in its Obesco 2 project to ensure continuation of its activities in Obourg, where reserves are set to be exhausted this year. The company has also said that it is waiting for permission to start operating a new limestone quarry near Tournai.

Holcim site celebrates centenary

Holcim Belgium, the Belgian division of the Swiss cement manufacturer Holcim, has celebrated its 100th anniversary at its Obourg site.

April 3, 2012

Holcim to reopen Belgian site

Holcim is reported to be planning to resume activity at its limestone quarry in Antoing near Tournai by 2015. The company expects to extract around 4.3million tonnes of limestone from the 162ha site each year. Holcim is understood to be planning to be planning to invest €50 to 70million on the Obourg cement facility to support the new activity.

March 9, 2012

Italian limestone quarry celebrates centenary

With celebrations planned for the company's centenary, the Marocca Group's Alberto Marocca talks to Claire Symes about plans for the Anagni Quarry's next 100 years. Italy's aggregates business is well known for its family-owned business with produce around 70% of the country's quarried material. But Anagni, 50km east of Rome, is home to one thriving privately-owned quarrying business - the Marocca Group.