March 26, 2012
Oficemen said the fall to 19million tonnes was likely to be followed by a December 2011 demand of 20.2million tonnes, down 17% on December 2010.…
March 26, 2012
HeidelbergCement has officially inaugurates a new cement mill at its plant in the seaport Chittagong, Bangladesh. The ball mill has a grinding…
March 26, 2012
A consortium presided over by ABM Solid has signed a contract to carry out works at the cement plant based in Chelm, eastern Poland, which belongs to…
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…