March 28, 2012
Austrian gravel producer Köhler Kiesabbau is reported to have filed for insolvency but has launched a restructuring programme in a bid to keep the…
March 28, 2012
French aggregates association Unicem has announced that Lafarge’s quarry in Fercé-sur-Sarthe, France has achieved level four standard in its…
March 28, 2012
Sberbank has offered to restructure Russia-based quarry operator Pavlovskgranit’s €121million loan in return for a 51% share in the business with a…
March 28, 2012
Germany-based Oberrheinische Baustoff (ORB) opted for a Doosan DX420LC excavator following a three month trial of the machine from Doosan dealer F…
March 28, 2012
Investments linked to Euro 2012 are expected to provide a boost to the Polish cement market, according to Cemex Polska. The company has also warned…
March 28, 2012
France’s aggregates association (Unicem) has announced that production of aggregates in the country rose to 33.3million tonnes in September this year…
March 28, 2012
Lafarge Aggregates and Concrete has gone beyond the requirements of new UK legislation by fitting new blind spot mirrors to its entire road transport…
March 28, 2012
Stockbrokers placed a 'buy' rating on the Irish building materials company. A robust first quarter performance by Masco, a US-based producer of…
March 28, 2012
Swiss cement and aggregates manufacturer Holcim is concentrating on organic growth in emerging markets, being currently active in 13 of the 15 most…
March 28, 2012
In 2010, the net income of the HeidelbergCement Ukraine, comprising HeidelbergCement Group's cement plants in Ukraine, grew by 3.6% year-on-year to €…
March 28, 2012
Tarmac has boosted its capacity to deliver aggregates by rail to sites in central London, England, and the south-east of the country following an…
March 28, 2012
According to forecasts by SoyuzCement (the Russian cement producers organisation) cement production may grow by 15% in Russia in 2011. In 2010,…
March 28, 2012
Holcim has announced a 40 hectare extension of the limestone quarry (which covers 100 hectares today) at its Dannes cement factory in northern France…
March 28, 2012
According to a report on global cement consumption in 160 countries from the International Cement Review, some 3.86 million tonnes of cement will be…
March 28, 2012
SPC, the Polish Association of Cement Producers, predicts that cement production in Poland will grow by 1-1.6%, year on year, in 2010, reaching 15.7-…