Netherlands: EC approves takeover of Deli Building Supplies

The European Commission has given its approval for the takeover of Dutch company Deli Building Supplies by Dutch building materials company PontMeyer. Deli Building Supplies owns several providers of timber and building materials, including Astrimex, RET Bouwproducten and Jongeneel. The deal was examined using the normal merger procedure.

August 25, 2015 Read time: 1 min

The European Commission has given its approval for the takeover of Dutch company Deli Building Supplies by Dutch building materials company PontMeyer.

Deli Building Supplies owns several providers of timber and building materials, including Astrimex, RET Bouwproducten and Jongeneel.

The deal was examined using the normal merger procedure.

Quarry Products

European Commission probably approves merger of Holcim and Lafarge

According to insiders, the merger of Swiss cement group Holcim and French industrial company Lafarge will probably be approved by the European Commission.

However, it is reported that it could be possible that the companies will have to sell one or two parts.

Holcim and Lafarge have already put some divisions up for sale in different countries amounting to several millions of Euro.

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EC toughens explosive regulations

The European Commission has adopted new regulations to toughen up the control of explosives for civil use. Robert Camp looks at the implications for quarry operators Just days after the Madrid train bombings in 2004 in which 191 people were killed, the European Council published its Declaration on Combating Terrorism, which called for terrorist organisations and groups to be "starved of the components of their trade".