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Highlights of Heidelberg Cement’s third-quarter results show that the group had its best operating income since the financial crisis and there have been increased sales volumes in all business lines.
The group says that revenue increased by 4% to €3.8 billion (like-for-like, +7%); operating income improved by 13% to €675 million despite negative exchange rate effects (like-for-like, +19%) and operating cash flow improved and net debt was reduced.
The outlook for 2014 is confirmed and HeidelbergCement says

HeidelbergCement has confirmed it will not buy any of the businesses that must be sold off as part of its rivals' merger.

In a brief statement, the German company told its shareholders it had now stopped looking at the assets being put on the block by its rivals, as it wanted to fortify its balance sheet and put cash into its own projects instead.

Given the importance of cement to developing economies - and Lafarge and Holcim's dominant positions in the market - their merger has come under enormous sc

The US Department of Energy is allocating a further US$752,000 to the next phase of a four-year research and development project leading to the commercial delivery of Solidia Technologies’ carbon dioxide-reducing cement and concrete.

The project called ‘Utilization of CO2 in High Performance Building and Infrastructure Products’ is co-funded by the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory through its Carbon Storage Technology program, and by Solidia Technologies.

The overall goa

LiuGong Dressta Machinery has appointed Howard Dale as new Vice President of Global Sales for Dressta.

Dale joins Dressta with 20 years of construction sales and marketing experience in China and South East Asia. His previous position was as a Shanghai-based Regional Director for CNH Industrial. As Vice President of Global Sales, Dale will be responsible for all aspects of Dressta’s global business including channel management, capacity building, after sales and service operations and expanding the corpo

Janne Leppänen from Finland has taken the title of best construction equipment operator at the 2014 Case Rodeo International Final.
The final was held at the Case Customer Centre in Monthyon near Paris, France, and Leppänen was declared overall winner among 42 highly skilled operators representing 15 nations from Europe and Africa.
The Best Team award was scooped by Denmark, thanks to the first-class performance and quality of its drivers, and for the first time a team from Africa (a delegation of three

A new Cemex UK Technical Development Programme has been launched to develop the technical managers of the future.

Six technicians embarked on the first 18-month programme with an orientation dayt Cemex’s National Technical Centre in Southam, County Warwickshire, England.

They met and worked with their individual mentors and existing senior technical managers, as well as learning about the programme, which has been developed in-house and is on-going, allowing the company to develop and extend its own

LiuGong Dressta Machinery has been awarded 2014 Top Chinese Investor in Poland.

The awards ceremony for the 2014 Top Foreign Direct Investors in Poland, which was hosted by Biz Poland Magazine and co-organised by The Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency; Special Economic Zones in Poland and the Chamber of Commerce of Poland, was held in Warsaw.

The award was evaluated by a judging committee, and the evaluation covered several important aspects such as investment scale; the strategic meanin

Cemex has signed binding agreements with Holcim regarding a series of European transactions originally announced on 28 August last year.

Under the main scope of the transactions between the global cement sector giants, Cemex will acquire all of Holcim’s assets in the Czech Republic and will divest its assets in the western part of Germany to Holcim. In Spain, Cemex will now acquire Holcim’s Gador cement plant (cement capacity of 0.85 million tonnes) and its Yeles cement grinding station (cement capacity

Cemex is venturing into the fashion world with the introduction of ladies handbags made from cement packaging bags.

These, as well as other items, are made by members of Mujeres Transformando a San Luis Potosí (Women Transforming San Luis Potosi) at El Terrero community, and are the result of dress-making courses organised by Cemex as part of its community development programmes, which have the support of the Instituto de Capacitación para el Trabajo (Institute for Work Training) of the Mexican State Go

Finning has opened its £8 million (€10 million) purpose-built National Distribution Centre in Cannock, County Staffordshire, England, to support its continued customer growth in after sales support and maintenance.

The state-of-the-art warehouse facility houses all of the dealership’s engines plus 60,000 different product lines, all of which are available for next day delivery. In addition the company has worked with their transport and logistics provider to replace eight of their existing trailers with

Cemex has won the top recognition by the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) for human resource excellence at its APO Cement Plant in the Philippines.

PMAP’s prestigious Employer of the Year Award annually recognises outstanding achievers whose leadership, dynamism, and professionalism measure up to the high standards of PMAP.

“At Cemex we value our people because they are our competitive advantage: we know that by hiring only the best we ensure that our team’s health, safety and p