The first steps in relaxing South Africa's national coronavirus lockdown will allow critical supplies of cement and construction material to reach specified markets.
South Africa's construction sector urgently needs support and an enabling regulatory environment to help it survive the COVID-19 lockdown crisis, on top of the challenges it was already facing.
Information gathered from countries that staged successful early lockdowns is showing the way for surface mines in South Africa and elsewhere to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace and mitigate its effects during and after the pandemic.
European cement association CEMBUREAU has published its Carbon Neutrality Roadmap which sets out the industry's ambition to reach net-zero emissions along the cement and concrete value chain by 2050.
Ciments du Maroc has completed the acquisition of Morrocan building materials providers Atlantic Cement and Cimsud from the Anouar Invest Group following an agreement signed in July 2019.
San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has abandoned its plan to acquire a majority stake in cement maker Holcim Philippines after failing to gain regulatory clearance.
