November 19, 2015
From 1 December 2015, the current general manager of Holcim Romania, Francois Petry, will become the CEO of Aggregates Industries, LafargeHolcim's…
November 19, 2015
CRH says that sales from continuing operations rose 16% to €15.5 billion in the nine months to the end of September. The Irish building materials…
November 19, 2015
Lafarge Cementos has opened the public offer to Heracles Cement's shareholders for acquiring Heracles’ common nominal voting shares for €1.23 (US$1.…
November 19, 2015
Jane Whittle, who has been working for Iveco (part of CNH Industrial) as operational marketing manager for the past two and half years has now joined…
November 18, 2015
Breedon has entered into a conditional agreement with Cortolina Investments to acquire Hope Construction Materials Limited for £336 million (€480…
November 17, 2015
Self-healing concrete is being trialled by a group of researchers from Bath, Cambridge and Cardiff universities in the UK. The Materials for Life…
November 17, 2015
A unit of Wijaya Karya Beton (Wika Beton) will be set up in Indonesia. Of the some IDR 528 billion (€35.97 million/US$38.74 million) capital…
November 17, 2015
The Kolo milliona-based (the Moscow region) LafargeHolcim plant has begun production of the new cement base for mortars under the Kelma brand. It is…
November 17, 2015
Algerian construction material imports have receded by 27.4% in value to US$1.9 billion (€1.77 billion) and by 4.8% in volume to 8.39 million tonnes…
November 17, 2015
According to Oficemen figures, cement consumption in Spain fell 2.4% to 1,025,120 tonnes during October 2015. Consumption in the first ten months of…
November 17, 2015
The Baselcement holding company's plants produced about 1.9 million tonnes of cement and clinker in January-September 2015, 12% down, compared with…
November 17, 2015
ARM Cement of Kenya is planning to raise up to US$105 million (€97.50 million) by selling five-year bonds to private investors, and it will use…
November 17, 2015
The Turkey-based consortium Dal Engineering Group and the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Company (MMC) has signed an agreement on construction of a…
November 17, 2015
The Ukraine-based companies Malo-Kokhnovsky Karier and Bekhovsky Granitny Karier have been licensed for crushed stone imports in Russia and have…
November 17, 2015
The Crimean government has recommended geologists to activate the crushed stone prospecting works on the territory of the republic. According to head…