May 2, 2014
German company Amberger Kaolinwerke (AKW), a subsidiary of Quarzwerke,, is investing €25 million in a new sand and gravel plant in Schnaittenbach and…
May 2, 2014
The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) predicts that annual demand for cement in India will increase by 2.7 times to between 550 million tonnes…
May 2, 2014
Cemex Latam, the Latin American subsidiary of Mexican cement group Cemex, registered net profits of US$55 million (€39.82 million) in the first…
May 2, 2014
The proposed merger of the Swiss cement producer Holcim and its French competitor Lafarge is expected to bring about cost savings amounting to €1.4…
May 1, 2014
Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe)/(HCME) has announced that its UK dealer has been renamed Hitachi Construction Machinery (UK) Ltd. Formerly…
May 1, 2014
Sandvik Construction’s new distributor for Rammer and Bretec throughout Indonesia is PT Kasana Teknindo Gemilang.
May 1, 2014
The UK’s Mineral Products Association’s (MPA) results for Q1 2014 indicate significant increases over the same period of 2013, albeit lower than the…
May 1, 2014
Edge Innovate has appointed Porter Group as the exclusive dealer for Edge equipment in New Zealand. Founded in 1945, Porter Group is a name that is…
April 30, 2014
Unicem, the French national union of quarries and construction materials, says that sales of ready-mixed concrete rose by 5.4% during the first…
April 30, 2014
consolidated net sales reached US$3.6 billion (€2.6 billion) during the first quarter of 2014, an increase of 8% versus the comparable period in 2013…
April 30, 2014
In a company announcement to the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (No. 08-2014, 30 April 2014) the European Court of Justice has ruled that the…
April 30, 2014
On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of HeidelbergCement’s stock exchange listing, Dr Bernd Scheifele, chairman of the managing board, started…
April 30, 2014
Finning UK and Ireland is investing £10 million (€12 million) in two new facilities, a national parts centre in Cannock, central England, and a…
April 30, 2014
CNH Industrial has agreed to enter into a new licensing agreement with Sumitomo Construction Machinery, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Heavy…
April 30, 2014
Holcim, which with Lafarge recently unveiled plans for a merger of the two companies, has reported a significant increase in operating profit for the…