News

Engcon says it is encouraged by its summer period trading, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The director of Ukraine's cement producers association says The Big Construction programme for road and bridge building and other infrastructure projects gives hope for growth in the country's cement market.

Building materials giant CEMEX has signed an agreement with Carbon Clean to develop an efficient and affordable carbon capture solution by 2021.

A virtual discussion on decarbonisation held by European construction equipment association CECE has stressed the importance of the industry moving from a purely machine-specific approach to a more holistic one in addressing the issue.

Breedon says it has continued to deliver an encouraging trading performance since demand began to return in early May after the COVID-19 lockdown.

Herbst Tiefbau is a civil engineering business run by Christian Herbst and his six-man professional team – the company operates in Epfach, which is one of the most beautiful landscapes in Germany. "Your civil engineering partner in the foothills of the Alps," is how Christian Herbst describes his business.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co is celebrating seven decades since the start of full-scale production of its excavators.

German building materials giant HeidelbergCement has unveiled its new strategy 'Beyond 2020' at this year's Capital Markets Day. Key elements of the strategy are new medium-term financial and sustainability targets that the company aims to achieve by 2025.

LafargeHolcim is taking part in Europe's largest hackathon HackZurich and challenging technical and data experts to provide innovations in sustainability to support cities as they face the task of housing two billion more people over the next 25 years.

Marshalls chief executive Martyn Coffey is confident of a market recovery from COVID-19-induced disruption which impacted on the group’s first-half 2020 trading.

French construction chemicals company CHRYSO is collaborating with Solidia Technologies, a US-based 'green' cement and concrete tech start-up, to improve the sustainability performance and material properties of Solidia's ultra-low CO2 concrete.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has indicated it will approve Breedon Group's acquisition of CEMEX assets in the UK, providing certain requirements are fulfilled.