Italmobiliare, the Italian investment holding that controls cement company Italcementi, has posted a turnover of €2.6 billion for the first half of 2011, compared to a turnover of €2.57 billion in the same period of 2010.
Shareholders of Russian company Iskitimcement, belonging to RATM holding company, have approved a €49.69 million dividend payment out of the company's undistributed profit, a record-breaking amount for the company.
Lafarge has agreed with Boral to sell them its stake in their common Asian Gypsum joint venture LBGA (Lafarge Boral Gypsum Asia) for €429 million, which represents the enterprise value of Lafarge’s 50%-stake in the jv.
HeidelbergCement has launched an international research competition aiming at finding new ideas for the conservation and promotion of species diversity in quarries and gravel pits.
Russian company Pavlovskgranit has reported that its production volume and sales rose by 17.4% and 10.2% in the first half of 2011 compared with the same period last year.
Samsung IMK Corporation is planning to build industrial enterprises in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan. Plants will process wastes from the Aksusky plant of Ferro Alloys and Aluminium of Kazakhstan.
Metso has acquired Copperstate Industrial Services, a mining services provider based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Metso says the acquisition strengthen its position as a service and technology provider for the mining and construction sectors.
The UK’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has recognised a geologist-turned-quarryman’s outstanding contribution of more than 35 years to safe and healthy working in the quarrying and mineral products sector.
Danish company FLSmidth has received a contract worth €147.71 million for the supply of a complete cement plant from Russian company Kaluga Cement Plant.
The President of the French Federation of Road Industry Unions (Usirf), Jean-Louis Marchand, has also been elected President of the European Asphalt Pavement Association (EAPA).
