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In accordance with Article 20 of the Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading (Stock Exchange Act), LafargeHolcim has been informed by Sberbank of Russia that it holds, through a repurchase transaction with Eurocement Holding, 6.12% of the voting rights and of the registered share capital of LafargeHolcim.
This corresponds to 37,172,910 registered shares and voting rights.
According to the declaration of Sberbank of Russia, the Stock Exchange Act threshold of 5% was exceeded on 21 January, 2

A guide to slate’s use as an aggregate has been launched by Welsh Slate, said to be the UK’s leading supplier of natural slate for a peerless range of exterior and interior design applications.

The guide gives a snapshot of Welsh slate’s features and benefits as an aggregate, specifically for civil engineering, housebuilding, the water industry, and pre-cast and ready-mixed concrete.

As a construction aggregate, Welsh slate can be used as a granular sub-base for road building, car parks, footpaths an

The Mersey Gateway road bridge across the River Mersey in North West England will provide a new link between the towns of Runcorn and Widnes and speed journey times for those travelling further into Liverpool and Merseyside.

Due to be opened to traffic in Autumn 2017, Cemex UK is working with client Merseylink Civil Contractors Joint Venture to deliver the project which features a reinforced concrete decked three pylon cable-stayed bridge linked to approach viaducts on each side of the river.

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Breedon Aggregates has been awarded a contract valued at up to £10 million (€13 million) by Wills Bros John Paul JV to supply drystone, ready-mixed concrete and asphalt to the £35 million (€46) first stage of the A9 dualling project between Kincraig and Dalraddy south of Aviemore, Scotland.

The 8km stretch incorporates five new structures, numerous side roads and accesses to local estates. It is the first stage in a £3 billion (€3.95 billion) project to transform 128km of single carriageway to dual carr

Xylem, a leading global water technology company, is expanding its pump rental and service portfolio across Europe and South Africa through a multi-million euro investment.

Xylem says the expansion initiative will enable it to better meet the market demand from construction, industry, municipal and mining customers across both regions. In addition, the investment also supports Xylem’s global strategy to help build resilient communities, more prepared to respond to extreme weather events.

The expansi

The third -quarter of 2015 saw Italian natural stone products continue growing on the US market.

This is confirmed by the latest Istat export data analysed by the Marmomacc Observatory.

From January to September, 2015, exports to the USA of hewn, shaped and finished natural stones posted turnover of €336 million (US$364million), up by 29.4% over the same period in 2014.

UK-based Telestack, specialists in the design, manufacture and installation of mobile bulk material handling systems, has appointed Martin Dummigan as its new managing director.

He will be responsible for setting and achieving Telestack’s goals and objectives and will report to Jeff Elliott ,the group vice president aggregates & mining, and joins Telestack from Terex where he has had various roles in his ten-year tenure. His last role saw him serve as vice president, China Operations and Business Initiat

FLSmidth has been awarded a contract for process and quality optimisation of 17 cement plants recently acquired by the CRH Group, based in Dublin, Ireland using FLSmidth's ECS/ProcessExpert and QCX/BlendExpert products.

FLSmidth's ECS/ProcessExpert system stabilises the process of the plant, optimises the production, manages and corrects process disruptions and minimises wear on plant equipment, all to ensure optimum plant performance.

By improving equipment availability and utilisation, the system he

Fergus Ewing MSP, Scotland’s Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism, has opened a new asphalt plant at Daviot quarry near Inverness, Scotland, which represents a £2.2 million investment in the area by Breedon Aggregates, Scotland’s leading independent building materials company.

Breedon’s new state-of-the-art Marini plant will be capable of producing up to 180tonnes of asphalt per hour, substantially more than the previous plant on the site, and it also has a significantly larger hot storage facility

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published its 2015 Sustainable Development (SD) Report, covering the year 2014.

The SD Report, which reiterates the mineral products industry’s commitment to quality reporting of evidence based sustainability data to increase transparency, sets out the organisation’s priorities: a continued dedication to improving health and safety, the supply of sustainable products, a reduction in CO2 emissions from production and support for conserving the natural environmen

Chicago Pneumatic has opened new offices in Varyap Plaza, Istanbul, Turkey. The company is expanding its presence in the country with a new 300m2 customer centre. The opening of the new office has great significance for our company and customers,” says Philippe Artzet, Chicago Pneumatic Tools Division president.

“It will help us to provide better service for customers, enhance the efficiency of our communication and cooperation while providing a more comfortable working environment to our employees.”

Opposition towards new quarries has hardened and it is still the most unpopular form of development in Britain, research by strategy consultancy Development Intelligence has revealed.

DI Tracker, an annual survey commissioned by Development Intelligence, is said to show that three-quarters of people would oppose a new quarry in their local area and just one in ten would support it.

Viet Nam Cement Industry (VICEM) has aimed to produce 22 million tonnes of cement and 17 million tonnes of clinker in 2016. It expects clinker and cement consumption will reach 24 million tonnes. This will result in a profit before tax worth VND 1.80 trillion (€73.57 million/US$80.3 million) and revenue worth VND 33 trillion.

Meanwhile, there was a cement surplus of 30 million tonnes in 2015.

Cement demand expanded by 9.1% from 2014 to 53.18 million tonnes in 2015. Cement output for 2015 stood at arou