July 2, 2014
Blackstone, Cinven and a Canadian pension fund are said by the UK’s Financial Times (FT) newspaper to be exploring a joint bid for €5 billion worth…
July 2, 2014
Blackstone, Cinven and a Canadian pension fund are said by the UK’s Financial Times (FT) newspaper to be exploring a joint bid for €5 billion worth…
July 1, 2014
Semen Indonesia will next year to set up a new €219.6 million cement plant in Vietnam, according to the Jakarta Post. The new plant will serve the…
July 1, 2014
The first in a series of NAM (Nature After Minerals)/RESTORE 2014 best-practice demonstration events for quarry restoration recently took place in…
July 1, 2014
Urbanisation is driving a rise in construction projects and the need for more Portland cement, according to a new Transparency Market Research (TMR)…
July 1, 2014
Dangote Cement is reportedly set to open its new Cameroon plant in August 2014. It was initially expected to enter service in January 2014, and then…
July 1, 2014
Lafarge, the French concrete and cement materials giant, and Germany-based construction chemicals producer BASF have agreed to set up a joint venture…
July 1, 2014
Long term growth in asphalt demand will be primarily driven by the continuously expanding highways across the world that are needed to accommodate…
June 30, 2014
Leading central England plant hire firm JoinPoint has bought 20 E-series ADTs from Bell Equipment to refresh and expand its fleet. Now in its 25th…
June 30, 2014
Highly efficient quarry and mining equipment operators can now gain the industry’s first ever gold standard accreditation. Launched last week at…
June 27, 2014
Ian Bagshawe of Cemex Dove Holes Quarry, County Derbyshire, England, has been awarded one of the first ever industry-wide gold standard accreditation…
June 27, 2014
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed the official launch of the Professional Recognition In Mineral Extraction (PRIME) project. The…
June 27, 2014
Holcim has released its 2013 Corporate Sustainability Report detailing the group’s ongoing activities in sustainable development and disclosing data…
June 27, 2014
Sublime Nature, a new book launched by CEMEX UK, is the first in the new Nature Series from global building materials supplier, CEMEX. This visually…
June 25, 2014
HeidelbergCement has started its Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) in order to continuously optimise the working processes in cement production.…