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Swedish Green Party MPs have called on the country’s government to ensure the protection of the Ojnareskogen nature area in northern Gotland amid plans to quarry the site’s limestone.

The views of Carl Schlyter and Annika Lillemets comes as the Swedish government is to announce whether to protect Ojnareskogen no later than on 31 August 2015. Finnish minerals company Nordkalk wants to quarry limestone in the area, but some fear quarrying will have negative consequences on the area.

Sweden has committe

For the second year, Cemex is running its Driving Apprenticeship Scheme with the aim of recruiting 18 young people who want a career in driving aggregate tippers and cement tankers. Of the 18, 13 will be based at quarries, wharves or depots gaining experience with aggregate tippers.

This year the scheme has been extended to cement logistics, with apprentice drivers based at the company’s three cement operations: Rugby, South Ferriby and Tilbury.

This Driving Apprenticeship Scheme helps to address a

Guillermo Brusko is to head up LafargeHolcim Russia. The newly merged French-Swiss company says Brusko’s main task will be management and strategic development of the new company in the Russian market. Brusko is the former CEO of Holcim in Russia.

Equipment Sales & Service Ltd (ESS) has been appointed by Terex Trucks to distribute articulated and rigid dump trucks in Alberta, Canada.

Founded in 1946, the family-owned business is one of Canada’s oldest and most established heavy equipment companies, as well as one of the largest national service providers. The Terex Trucks haulers will complement the company’s current line of construction product offerings.

“We see Terex Trucks products as a great strategic fit, not only for our business but als

Nigeria’s Ogun State government is teaming up with cement manufacturer Lafarge Africa to develop state-wide solutions for waste management.

A working committee will be established as part of the effort to develop solutions for managing various wastes in Ogun. The parties will also establish a transparent and sustainable legacy on renewable energy. The planned forest restoration initiative by the two bodies is aimed at addressing environmental concerns.

Bill Law appointed senior vice president, corporate communications at Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE).

Effective immediately, Bill Law has been appointed senior vice president, corporate communications at Volvo Construction Equipment. Law brings over 20 years of experience in corporate communication roles both within the Volvo Group and outside the company.

As part of the senior executive management team, Law will be responsible for leading the development, coordination and delivery of Volvo C

LafargeHolcim has entered into a letter agreement with Birla Corporation for the €691 million (INR 50 billion) divestment of some of its Indian assets as part of the merger of its legacy companies.

The proceeds from the sale of the divestment business, which is subject to approval by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), will be used to further reduce debt.

As announced in April 2015, LafargeHolcim has received conditional clearance from the CCI for the merger. In that context, a package of asse

The Construction Equipment Association (CEA) says it has sold out in record time its UKTI (UK Trade & Investment) supported pavilion at bauma Africa 2015.

A total of 16 UK companies will be in the pavilion in Hall 6 at Africa’s biggest international trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines, and construction vehicles being staged at Johannesburg Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The first bauma Africa, also staged at Johannesburg Expo Centre, in Septem

A Zhejiang Shangfeng Building Materials (Zhejiang Shangfeng) cement project in Kyrgyzstan is scheduled for completion in 2016. The company plans to invest US$156.31 million on the new plant. Zhejiang Shangfeng is a China-based cement clinker production line operator.

New cement factory licenses in Egypt are being postponed by the North African country’s General Authority for Industrial Development (GAID). The move is said to be due to a rise in the untapped potential of existing plants and the recession in domestic and global markets.

GAID president Ismail Gaber said the authority will re-examine the cement consumption market in the country as well as future needs. GAID was planning to issue between 12 and 14 licenses for cement factories in the current fiscal year,

Tanzanian cement producers claim cheap imports are distorting the market, limiting their growth prospects in the continuing construction boom.

They say their growth prospects looked bearish despite a growing demand of cement to feed the rapidly expanding construction sector in the country fuelled by significant investment in new and existing infrastructure.

Reinhardt Swart, chairman of the Tanzania Chapter of East African Cement Producers Association (EACPA), said the industry is facing contraction an

Mexican cement giant Cemex is selling its operations in Austria and Hungary to the Rohrdorfer Group for around €160.1 million.

The Austrian operations consist of 24 aggregate quarries (approximately 6.47 million tonnes of aggregates sold in 2014) and 34 ready-mix plants (approximately 1.6 million m³ of ready-mixed sold in 2014). Cemex’s operations in Austria had net sales of approximately €216.4 million in 2014.

The Hungarian operations being divested consist of five aggregate quarries (approximately

Mexican cement giant Cemex is selling its operations in Austria and Hungary to the Rohrdorfer Group for around €160.1 million.

The Austrian operations consist of 24 aggregate quarries (approximately 6.47 million tonnes of aggregates sold in 2014) and 34 ready-mix plants (approximately 1.6 million m³ of ready-mixed sold in 2014). Cemex’s operations in Austria had net sales of approximately €216.4 million in 2014.

The Hungarian operations being divested consist of five aggregate quarries (approximately