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The Eurocement Group in Russia has raised the retail prices for cement by 8%.

The share of the company in St. Petersburg market and the Leningrad region is estimated at 60%.

The prices for Eurocement Group's products will increase by RUB 300 (€3.39/US$3.81) per tonne and the average price for cement in the market will increase to RUB 4,500 (€50.81/$57.20), as a result.

The concrete producers, which are the primary customers for cement, will also have to raise the prices for their products.

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A new form of cement that will be used to cover nuclear waste buried in deep underground stores is under development.

The research team is led by Claire Corkhill of Sheffield University, England.

The cement has to withstand the intense radioactively of nuclear waste as well as harmless elements such as water. It is estimated the amount of intermediate nuclear waste in the UK will have swelled to around 300,000m³ by 2030.

The government has announced plans to build a new fleet of nuclear power stat

Ulyanovskcement, part of Eurocement Group, located in Volga Federal District, dismissed 236 employees or 31.5% of the staff, by mutual agreement of the parties between November 2015 and January 2016.

The reason for the redundancy is decrease in demand for cement.

Currently the workforce of the company consists of 514 employees.

The company reported that it produced 1.35 million tonnes of cement in 2015, which is 20.6% less than in 2014.

Cement company PPC has appointed Kelibone Masiyane as managing director for its operations in the country.

Masiyane succeeds Njombo Lekula, who was redeployed as MD for PPC's international operations.

During the fourth general assembly, shareholders of Ethiopia-based Habesha Cement agreed to the demand of the Industrial Development Corporation, South African Cement Company and Pretoria Portland Cement Company to revise the company's Articles of Association to allow majority shareholders to determine who is going to be on the board of directors.

The three South African companies have been on Habesha Cement's board of since 2013 while the United Bank of Ethiopia has one board seat.

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HeidelbergCement has substantially increased its operating income in 2015, as predicted in its 2014 annual report.
The group says that significant drivers behind this success were its programmes to improve efficiency and margins; price increases in key markets; energy costs that were slightly below the previous year, and positive exchange rate effects due to the weakening of the euro.
“2015 was by far the best year for HeidelbergCement since the financial crisis,” says Dr Bernd Scheifele, chairman of the

Three winners of the British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) annual Archaeology Awards have recently been announced. The Awards recognise best practice in applying an archaeological reporting protocol developed in partnership between the marine aggregate industry and Historic England.

Mark Russell, director BMAPA, said: “Staff working in the marine aggregate industry, at wharves or on board dredgers are aware they can encounter archaeological finds during their day to day work, so the exis

Global programme management and construction consultancy Turner & Townsend is providing quantity surveying expertise as part of a government programme to close and rehabilitate 660 abandoned asbestos mines and shafts in South Africa.

The rehabilitation programme falls under the Department of Mineral Resources, which appointed Mintek - a global leader in minerals processing and metallurgical engineering products and services, to provide the professional project management.

SRK Consulting has taken the

ACC, the India-based ready-mixed concrete and cement manufacturer, posted a 3% year-on-year Q4 2015 sales increase from INR 27.62 billion (US$ 405.4 million) to INR 28.46 billion ($417.05 million), while cement volumes rose 4% from 5.77 million tonnes to 6 million tonnes. However, the net profit of the firm in the quarter fell 69% to INR 1.02 billion from INR 3.26 billion as the firm focused on lowering costs.

The Wirtgen Group has invested in excess of ZAR50 million (US$3.14 million) into a new facility for its Wirtgen South Africa (SA) subsidiary. Despite the current economic slowdown, Heinrich Schulenburg, MD of Wirtgen SA, believes the investment into a new facility signals the German group’s confidence in the long-term business prospects for southern Africa.

The project is in line with the Wirtgen Group’s on-going investments into several capital projects in the global market. Speaking at the official op

Materials washing specialist CDE Global has announced that it has increased its product assembly space by 32% to allow for the production of 60 additional machines every year. CDE Global designs and manufactures materials washing and classification equipment with applications in a variety of sectors; sand and aggregates, construction waste recycling, mining, specialist industrial sands and environmental. The regional office network has a presence in Kolkata (India), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Cary (North Americ

The European Parts Centre for the Doosan Heavy range of excavators, wheel loaders and articulated dump trucks, based at Leipzig in Germany, is currently achieving a claimed industry-leading fill rate of an average of 96.6% compared to the typical figure of 95% in the rest of the industry.

Providing 24-hour delivery of parts to Doosan dealers and customers door-to-door anywhere in Europe from a stock of over 43,000 parts, the 6000m² Doosan European Parts Centre is housed in a large warehouse facility op

Hope Construction Materials, a leading UK independent supplier of cement and concrete, has announced the launch of its new bagged cement product, available later this year.

Their Professional Grade Cement will be available to customers across the southern half of England, the newest entrant into a UK bagged cement market worth £180 million (€231 million) annually.

The newly revealed product pack design, developed in association with Cognition Agency, features a large ram - a nod to the firm’s rich c