March 28, 2012
France-based Italcementi subsidiary Ciments Francais has announced a drop in sales and profit in the first half of 2011, compared to the same period…
March 28, 2012
Lafarge and Anglo Amercian’s subsidiary Tarmac are reported to be planning to sell off £600million (€682million) worth of assets in order to complete…
March 28, 2012
Demand for aggregates and cement in the UK rose in the first quarter of the year, according to new figures released by the Mineral Products…
March 28, 2012
Lafarge’s Spanish cement subsidiary Lafarge Cementos has announced that it has appoint Luis Ferrer Vidal as its new sales director. Vidal takes on…
March 28, 2012
Italcementi has posted profits of €187.8million for the first half of the year, up from €81.8million in the same period in 2010 partly due to the…
March 28, 2012
Cemex is celebrating completion of its five year contract to supply construction materials to the expansion project at Alicante Airport in Spain. The…
March 28, 2012
The majority share in Poland-based concrete and steel producer Kombinat Budowlany is to be sold off by the Polish government by auction next month.…
March 28, 2012
Cemex is celebrating completion of its five year contract to supply construction materials to the expansion project at Alicante Airport in Spain. The…
March 28, 2012
The UK-based Mineral Products Association has said that it welcomes the publication of the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) but there…
March 28, 2012
Shareholders at Lafarge’s AGM yesterday cleared the way for participation in future meetings to be carried out electronically removing the need to…
March 28, 2012
Holcim has announced that it has appointed Bogdan Dobre as its new concrete and aggregates director for the Romanian region. Dobre will take over the…
March 28, 2012
Major Cimpor shareholder Camargo Correa has said it has not ruled out launching a takeover bid for the company. Brazil-based Correa holds a 32.9%…
March 28, 2012
Lack of orders this year and staff strikes have been cited as the cause of financial difficulties at Slovenia-based Vemont, despite recording a…
March 28, 2012
Demand for aggregates in Poland reached 110million tonnes in the first six months of 2011 – up 6million tonnes on the same period last year due to…
March 28, 2012
Russia-based Southern Industrial Corporation (YUPK) has officially opened its new €5million rock crushing and screening plant at its site in the…