March 26, 2012
The concrete industry has hit back at the inaccurate and misleading reporting of the closure of the A4 Hammersmith Flyover, London. The flyover was…
March 26, 2012
SPC predict producers will have made 18.2-18.3million tonnes of cement in 2011, up from the record-breaking 16.95million tonnes in 2008. SPC also…
March 26, 2012
The Volgograd region's Arbitration Court is hearing claims from plaintiffs including Sberbank Head Office in the Volgograd region (South), which…
March 26, 2012
The funds from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF) will pay for the development of CleanTechBlock bricks over the next three…
March 26, 2012
In 2011, the programme to replace asphalt in the centre of Moscow, the Russian capital, with paving flagstones will be reduced from 1.13 million m²…
March 26, 2012
In the first half of 2011, prices for construction materials in Russia significantly rose in price. Rebar grew by 5.7% in price; metal by 5-10%;…
March 26, 2012
The Slantsy cement plant at Cesla, 170km south-west of St Petersburg, Russia, and controlled by HeidelbergCement Group, has signed an agreement with…
March 26, 2012
The Portland Cement Association (PCA) has named Gregory M. Scott senior vice president of government affairs. He will head the association’s…
March 26, 2012
Cemex says it has been named the primary cement supplier for the Baha Mar tourist complex in Cable Beach, Nassau, being built by CCA Bahamas. It is…
March 26, 2012
Swiss group Holcim, one of the world's leading suppliers of cement and aggregates, says that its 2011 first-half net profit fell by 4.2% to 586…
March 26, 2012
Breedon Aggregates, the UK’s largest independent aggregates business, is entering the Nottingham ready-mixed concrete market with the acquisition…
March 26, 2012
Individual trading category figures for the same month included a hardware trader and wholesaler product sale rise of 5.5%, while wood traders saw a…
March 26, 2012
FL Smidth has been awarded contracts worth a total of approximately €66.7 million for equipment supplies to a copper producer in South America. The…
March 26, 2012
Irish group CRH has unveiled plans to expand further into emerging markets, while reporting pre-tax profits of €95 million for the six months to June…
March 26, 2012
Atlas Copco has acquired Perfora, Italy, a company that manufactures and sells cutting and drilling equipment in the dimensional stone industry.…