June 5, 2014
The previously announced acquisition of Terex’s hauler business by Volvo Construction Equipoment has been completed. The purchase consideration…
June 5, 2014
Experts forecast that concrete prices in the Russian city of St Petersburg will increase by 10-15% by mid-summer 2014. In May 2014, for the first…
June 5, 2014
Cemex and BirdLife Europe have released a joint statement backing the EU’s Nature Conservation Policy. It calls for the strengthening of public…
June 5, 2014
French senator Roland Courteau and MP Marie-Hélène Fabre have told Lafarge they will raise its concerns over claimed unfair competition from rival…
June 5, 2014
Italmobiliare, the Italian investment holding that controls building materials specialist Italcementi, has appointed a new board. Giampiero Pesenti…
June 5, 2014
Finning customers Andrew Bettney and Paul Marriott are taking a 70-year-old fully operational Cat D8-8R track-type tractor back to France as part of…
June 4, 2014
In April 2014, sales of aggregates fell 7.8% on the previous month and 5.9% on April 2013, reports Unicem, the French national union of quarries and…
June 4, 2014
HeidelbergCement has opened a new factory in Tbilisi, Georgia, where the latest generation separator has started work, contributing to the rise of…
June 3, 2014
Superior Industries, a major manufacturer of conveyor systems and their related components, has bought GreyStone, which manufactures washing,…
June 3, 2014
Stuart Keighley and Al Laverty of CEMEX Readymix Central region are on their bikes cycling from CEMEX Uddingston office near Glasgow, Scotland, to…
June 3, 2014
Jason Purllant, formerley of Red Rhino Crushers and JCB, has joined Austrian company Rubblemaster as sales and marketing manager in the UK, which the…
June 3, 2014
In the first quarter of 2014, the Cypriot cement manufacturer Tsimentopiia Vasilikou registered revenues of €23.47 million and a net profit of €1.881…
June 3, 2014
India's Kakatiya Cement Sugar & Industries (KCSIL) reported a net profit of INR 12.40 million (about €155,000) in January-March 2014, down 86.74…
June 3, 2014
HeidelbergCement has launched a new separator at its cement plant in Rustavi, Georgia. Investment in the project stands at €7.34 million and the…
June 3, 2014
Latvia's cement producer Cemex posted a turnover of €88 million in 2013, which was up by 3.1% from 2012. The company generated a gross profit of €28…