September 2, 2015
The Lukyanovsky Mining and Processing Plant in Russia plans to up production to 200,000tonnes of quartz sand/year for the glass industry. In 2016,…
September 2, 2015
Mexican construction holding Grupo de Oro and cement company Holcim Lafarge Mexico have consolidated their strategic partnership with the launch of…
September 2, 2015
In the first half of 2015, Tunisia’s Carthage Cement posted turnover down nearly 11% to TND 90.66 million (€41.66 million/US$46.59 million). The…
September 2, 2015
The pre-tax profit of Vietnam Cement Industry (Vicem) increased year-on-year from VND 1 trillion (€39.24 million/US$44.02 million) to VND 1.34…
September 2, 2015
In the 2015 financial year, the net earnings of Pakistan-based Fauji Cement Company (FCCL) rose by 56.7% year-on-year to PKR 4.10 billion (€35.29…
September 2, 2015
Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV) of the Philippines and CRH of Ireland are reported to have widened their ties with Lafarge Republic (LRI) in a deal…
September 2, 2015
In January-July 2015, production of cement in China fell 5% year-on-year to 1.29 billion tonnes. Meanwhile, profit generated by cement sales…
September 2, 2015
Trimble has acquired Vianova Systems, a Norwegian company specialising in Building Information Modeling (BIM) software for infrastructure design…
September 2, 2015
HeidelbergCement has taken further important steps to strengthen its financing in completing the disposal of its lime business in Germany to the…
September 2, 2015
Doosan Portable Power has won an order for portable compressors worth well over £4 million (€5.45 million) from A-Plant, a leading UK plant, tools…
September 2, 2015
Cement production, quarrying and batching concrete don’t seem likely bed fellows with nature. But Cemex UK says it has created 660 hectares of…
September 2, 2015
Pakistan’s Lucky Cement is said to be close to winning a permit to extract limestone in Punjab province, allowing the country’s largest maker of the…
September 2, 2015
Much of the research to date to reduce the environmental impacts of concrete has focused on the partial replacement of cement with industrial by-…
September 2, 2015
Indonesia will host the 7th Asia CemenTrade Summit, on 20-21 October, 2015, in Bali. The summit offers an “up-to-date review of the infrastructure…
September 2, 2015
Sandvik Construction has appointed Fredheim Maskin as its new distributor for the firm’s full range of mobile crushing and screening equipment in…