January 7, 2014
Lafarge announces the sale of its 20% minority stake in European and South American gypsum operations to Etex for an immediate cash consideration of…
January 7, 2014
Danish company FLSmidth has received an order worth approximately €40 million (DKK 300 million) from Indonesian cement producer PT Semen Padang for a…
January 7, 2014
The newly-appointed managing director of RDS Technology is Angela Simkins who has 25 years of general management experience and more recently has…
January 7, 2014
CRH says it made seven acquisition and investment initiatives during the second half of 2013. These transactions, together with the previously…
January 7, 2014
Entrepreneur Amit Bhatia, who is chairman of Hope Construction Materials, has told of his optimism for the future as the company celebrates its…
January 6, 2014
The government of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, North Caucasus, Russia, has extended the income tax relief period for producers of cement. In 2014…
January 6, 2014
Bruno Lafont, CEO of Lafarge is reported as saying in an interview with Algerian publication Liberté that the group has already invested over €240…
January 6, 2014
A cement plant is planned to be built in the Republic of Mari El, Volga, Russia. The raw material will be supplied to the plant from the Chukshinskoe…
January 6, 2014
In Sweden, building material producer Cemex has formed a contract with Swedish port company HallandsHamnar. Cemex is to introduce two new cement…
January 6, 2014
In England, Rutland County Council has awarded Lafarge Tarmac Contracting a highways contract that could be worth up to £35 million (€40 million).…
January 6, 2014
Algerian cement and derivatives company Entreprise des ciments et dérivés d'Ech-Cheliff (ECDE) launched an international, restricted call to tender…
January 6, 2014
It is reported that Spanish precast concrete production plant, Prefabricados Hormitec, situated at the El Bayo Industrial Estate, León, northern…
January 6, 2014
According to Unicem, the French national union for quarry industries and construction materials, production of aggregates declined by 2.7% in…
January 6, 2014
Albert Manifold is the new group chief executive of CRH, following the retirement of Myles Lee after 32 years with the group including five years as…
January 6, 2014
As part of its global expansion plan for its services centre network, Metso plans to build a state-of-the-art service and repair facility in Mesa,…