June 15, 2012
Cemex says that since 2005 it has invested more than US$ 175 million (€139 million) adjusting its production process and installing equipment to…
June 15, 2012
Tower Light and DF Ecology, the Italian producers of environmentally focussed construction equipment, have appointed a new dealer for their range of…
June 15, 2012
Two new machines are helping Fahey’s Concrete to get “maximum advantage” from its aggregate processing plant. The company has introduced a Terex…
June 15, 2012
ContiTech has strengthened its industrial business in specialised conveyor belts by buying Specialised Belting Supplies of Thetford, County Norfolk,…
June 14, 2012
Harsco Metals (HM) plans to invest €10million in a new waste treatment centre in Firminy, central France. Earmarked to open in 2013, the centre is…
June 14, 2012
Lafarge is aiming to reduce its costs by a total of €1.3billion over the next three years. Under its newly published 2012-15 business plan, the…
June 14, 2012
French group Imerys, which extracts and transforms minerals for industry and the construction sector, decided to close its tiling factory in Blajan (…
June 14, 2012
The International Arbitration Court in the International Chamber of Commerce has ruled that Strabag’s decision to pull out of purchasing production…
June 12, 2012
Holcim Granulats has sponsored the restoration of a pool gathering ground runoff in La Rothière, north-central France. The aggregates firm paid for…
June 12, 2012
Cement production in Poland dropped by 7.2% to 5.77million tonnes in the first five months of 2012, compared to the same period of 2011. The Polish…
June 12, 2012
Veidekke Industri has bought an 80% stake in Norwegian asphalting company Kito Asfalt. From its base in the county of Buskerud, southern Norway, Kito…
June 12, 2012
Lafarge has claimed that 47% of its produced cement will have a reduced CO² level by the end of 2012. The pledge is part of the French construction…
June 11, 2012
Tarmac has secured a place on the Eastern Highways Alliance, a major four-year framework contract valued at up to £75 million (€92.6 million). The…
June 8, 2012
Organisers say that excitement is building ahead of Hillhead 2012 for what will be the UK’s biggest shop window yet for plant, equipment, materials…
June 8, 2012
International Equipment Solutions (IES) has acquired, through an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary, Siac do Brasil from SIAC and its affiliates. IES…