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County-Tyrone, Northern Ireland-based CDEnviro has been ranked in the top 20 on a national league table of Britain’s fastest-growing SME exporters.

The 2nd annual Sunday Times Heathrow SME Export Track 100 league ranks Britain’s private small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) with the fastest-growing international sales.

CDEnviro, which was listed at number 16, was one of two businesses from Northern Ireland to feature. Country Antrim-based Seven Technologies Group ranks at No 43 on the league table.

Terex Washing Systems (TWS) is launching a number of new product lines at Hillhead 2016, serving an increasingly diverse range of materials handling sectors.

First in the new product line-up is the “eagerly-awaited” Modular Scalping Unit.

TWS says that the modular chassis-mounted scalping unit offers operators a well-proven, cost-effective and durable machine in a modular all-electric format that is ideal for C&D recycling applications as well as quarry and mine overburdens. It also integrates seaml

Longley Concrete has sold Whites Concrete to Naylor Concrete Products.

Whites has a turnover of £2 million (€2.5 million/US$3 million) and makes pre-cast and pre-stressed concrete products.

Naylor said the deal would extend its product range.

Production will move from Longley's site in Dewsbury to Naylor's plant near Barnsley, northern England.

Iran exported 15 million tonnes of cement and clinker in 2015-16, down a fifth from the previous year.

Abdolreza Sheikhan, the Association of Cement Industry Entrepreneurs secretary, said that among the major export markets, Iraq (which accounted for 60% of shipments) raised tariffs from US$4 (€3.51) per tonne to US$13 during the year under review, while Azerbaijan has increased domestic production and reduced imports.

Iran now seeks to market cement in Africa and Central Asia.

Data from the Department of Building Materials of Vietnam showed that demand for cement and clinkers reached 24 million tonnes as of year-to-date (up by 15% year-on-year), while cement production for 2016 is projected to reach a range of 75 million to 77 million tonnes.

The department noted that cement prices remain stable despite the demand surge, which is attributed to the recovery of the property market.

Demand for cement from the local market rose 17% to 6.07 million tonnes in April 2016 compared

Indonesian cement company Indocement Tunggal Prakasa (Indocement) plans to appeal the decision by the Semarang Administrative Court revoking its permit to develop a cement plant in Pati, Central Java.

The appeal will be submitted at the Surabaya High Court.

The public protested against the construction of the cement plant for fear of environmental damages including difficulty in accessing clean water as well as danger of flood.

Indocement has spent nine years conducting studies as well as processi

Russia’s Pervaya Nerudnaya Kompaniya (PNK) will independently mine crushed stone at the Gavrilovo crushed stone quarry in the Leningrad region.

In the last ten years, the facility has been leased and developed by Semiozerskoe Karyeroupravlenie of the Technostrom group (TSM Group).

It is reported that after PNK refused to extend the leasing agreement, Technostrom's plant that accounted for some 9-17% of the regional crushed stone market, was closed.

According to experts, PNK expects to supply crushe

The Daniel group is acquiring three Lafarge sites in south-western France.

The Baudreix-Mirepeix site comprises an alluvial gravel quarry and a concrete plant. The quarry produces 200,000tonnes of aggregates/year.

At Louvie-Juzon, an open pit limestone quarry, 350,000tonnes of aggregates/year areproduced, while the third acquisition targets a concrete plant.

These purchases add to the offer of the construction material specialist, which aims to broaden its target clientele.

With these acquisitio

According to a study of Informa D&B, the sales of cement in the Portugal rose in 2015 by 6.3% to 2.6 million tonnes, and in value sales in Portugal rose by €10 million to €220 million, while exports stood at €147 million.

Cement was mainly shipped to North Africa and African Portuguese speaking countries and in total 58% of the cement exported by Portugal in 2015 was shipped to Algeria.

Gary Schutz, the president of Holcim Indonesia, is reported as saying that the cement company has reported cement sales of 2.67 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2016, up 41% from a year ago.

Sales grew by 24% to IDR 2.45 trillion (€161.95 million/US$184.38 million).

National demand for cement grew by 4% during the quarter.

The company is projecting that cement sales will grow by 5% in 2016 to 63 million tonnes/year.

Following the acquisition of Lafarge Cement Indonesia, the company has in

Yi Ju Hwan has been elected as president of the Korea Cement Association.

He currently serves as CEO of Hyundai Cement.

In its regulatory filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) of India, UltraTech Cement has announced that it has secured permission from its board to raise its Registered Foreign Portfolio Investor (RFPI) limit from 24% to 30%.

The increase in the limit by the local company is subject to approval from board members at the yearly general meeting scheduled for July 2016.

In August 2016, a gravel storage facility owned by Goldsun Group is expected to be completed and operational.

Located in Port of Taipei, the storage facility is designed with a storage capacity of up to 135,000tonnes.

It has eight freight exits, which allow eight gravel trucks to transport gravel.

The environment of the storage facility is clean, and its transport efficiency is high.

The new storage facility will help increase productivity, said the Goldsun Group.

The aggregates sector in Catalonia, Spain, has reported turnover of €100 million in 2015, after increasing production 2% on a year earlier to 22 million tonnes.

The bulk of the opencast mining industry production relates to aggregates, which are used for infrastructure, housing, shopping centres and industrial estates.

There was still a drop of 72.4% since the maximums seen in 2005, with the drop being even bigger when it came to turnover, as the price per tonne since 2005 has been dropping.

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