Guillermo Brusko to head LafargeHolcim Russia

LafargeHolcim plans to raise to raise €3.29 billion (3.5bn Swiss francs) next year selling cement assets around the world as the recently merged Franco-Swiss building-materials group adjusts to tough conditions in important markets like China and India, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The company announced the “portfolio review “ after missing third-quarter sales and earnings expectations as the stronger Swiss franc and lower prices weighed on its first results since its creation through the merger of F

Cement giant LafargeHolcim has published its first Sustainability Report since the merger of French firm Lafarge and Swiss company Holcim.

The Sustainability Report 2015 outlines the Group’s economic, environmental and social performance and presents LafargeHolcim’s ambitious objectives as part of its new sustainability strategy, The 2030 Plan.

The report claims that LafargeHolcim is leading the cement industry on a number of sustainability issues. It says the Group has the lowest CO2 emissions per to

The Moroccan national investment company SNI and cement group LarfageHolcim are strengthening their partnership.

They are reported to be setting up LafargeHolcim Maroc via the merging of Lafarge Ciments and Holcim Maroc, and by creating a subsidiary dubbed LH Maroc Afrique, which will operate in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa.

This project should come about in the third-quarter of 2016. It will turn the SNI into a pan-African long-term investment fund and hasten the development of LafargeHolcim on