March 30, 2012
Lafarge UK has officially opened a new footpath across its Panshanger Park site in Hertfordshire and named the link after a former employee.…
March 30, 2012
Improvements in the house construction market have helped to boost the Finnish concrete industry. According to the Finnish concrete association’s…
March 30, 2012
Marwyn Materials has acquired the acquisition of Breedon Holdings for £2.25million and warrants to subscribe for 55,266,667 Ordinary Shares at an…
March 30, 2012
Fundacion Lafarge Espana is the latest venture set up by Lafarge’s Spanish operation Lafarge Cementos and aims to directly support sustainable…
March 30, 2012
Holcim has cited better than expected result from North America as well as growth in emerging economies for its growth in sales and profits in the…
March 30, 2012
Democratic Republic of Congo-based Groupe Bazano has just taken delivery of five Hitachi EH1100-3 dump trucks from the country's official dealer,…
March 30, 2012
Scotland-based Leiths has been given consent to expand its Achilty Quarry near Contin by 4.5ha, giving access to 3million tonnes of aggregates over…
March 30, 2012
The Hitachi factory at the port of Hitachinaka has been hit by the second tsunami that hit the coast of Japan’s Ibaraki-prefecture. Hitachi reports…
March 30, 2012
Spain-based aggregate producer CTH has applied to the business court to try and start negotiation with its creditors in a bid to avoid going into…
March 30, 2012
Tarmac has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard in the UK in recognition of its efforts to measure, manage and reduce its carbon emissions. The…
March 30, 2012
UK-based Grundon has applied for permission to expand its sand and gravel extraction at Old Kiln Quarry in Chieveley, Berkshire. The company has said…
March 30, 2012
Work on a new sculpture aimed at linking Hanson’s Coldstones Quarry in North Yorkshire with the neighbouring Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB…
March 30, 2012
Portugal-based Lafarge Agrigados has announced plans to expands its quarry in Alenquer from 7ha to almost 25ha in a bid to ramp up production to…
March 30, 2012
Hitachi has announced the delivery of the 10th rigid dump truck to Finland’s Talvivaara Mine near Sotkamo, 600km north of Helsinki. The keys to the…
March 30, 2012
Eurovia will have to sell six aggregate quarries in France in order for the company’s acquisition of Tarmac to go ahead, according to the French…