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Irish global building materials group CRH has sold its DIY business, Benelux, and related assets in the Netherlands and Belgium for a total of €510mn.

The DIY business was sold to Intergamma, the Dutch organisation which has been operating it as a franchise. Certain property assets related to the DIY business were sold to US real estate investor WP Carey.

In separate CRH news, the company has announced that on 18th July it transferred 5,858 Ordinary Shares - priced between £12.22 (€13.69) and £24.51 (

Lafarge Malaysia’s RM270 million (US$68.8mn) contract with China Communications Construction for the supply of cement for the country’s East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) has been suspended following the suspension of the project. Domestic news outlets report that in a filing with Bursa Malaysia yesterday, Lafarge Malaysia said it received a letter from China Communications Construction (CCC) confirming the suspension of the cement supply contract with immediate effect until further notice. It is reported that

South African surface mining industry association Aspasa says its special task team is moving rapidly to formalise standards to benefit both sand and stone producers and their customers. Asapa says the standards could soon make disagreements over the quality of sand and stone delivered on site a thing of the past. Since the establishment of a special technical committee on quality management, the association adds that it has made progress in addressing quality issues internally among its members, as

The need for more a supportive national policy and investment environment for UK minerals was stressed yesterday at the sixth CBI Minerals Group and Mineral Products Association (MPA) ‘Living with Minerals 6’ (LWM6) ‘Securing Minerals for the Next Generation and the UK Minerals Strategy’ Conference at Church House, Westminster, London.

The conference celebrated the industry’s successes while underlining the need to better ‘make the link’ between mineral and mineral products and the economy and our qualit

Rapid International has recently supplied KwaMhlanga Group based in Gauteng province, South Africa, with a new Rapidmix 400CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant for production of road subbase. The previous production process deployed by KwaMhlanga Group, a large, diverse, civil engineering contracting group, which operates in the construction, slip form concrete, continuous mixing and paving, plant hire and property development sectors, had resulted in inaccurate blending of emulsions and cement into a

CEMEX has announced its participation in the expansion and optimisation of the ‘El Salitre’ Wastewater Treatment Plant, located on the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia.

The Mexican global sector giant expects to supply over 290,000 cubic meters of concrete for this project, which will contribute to the decontamination of the Bogotá River, the main river in the Andean Colombian savannah.

Since October 2017, CEMEX has provided building materials for the construction of the plant’s piles, slabs, tank walls

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published the 4th edition of its review of the UK mineral products industry. This review celebrates the diversity of the industry and highlights its essential role as an enabling industry for others to thrive on. The mineral products industry supplies the raw and manufactured materials for building our homes, as well as vital new and upgraded infrastructure to support future economic growth and our quality of life. The profile provides industry stakeholders with a

LafargeHolcim, the Franco-Swiss global building materials giant, has appointed Miljan Gutovic as head of its Middle East Africa region and member of the Group’s executive committee. He succeeds Saâd Sebbar who has decided to pursue external business opportunities.

Jan Jenisch, CEO of LafargeHolcim said: “Miljan is a very experienced and entrepreneurial manager to lead our business in the Region Middle East and Africa. In his previous roles, he has developed and executed successful growth strategies and b

LafargeHolcim has acquired Tarrant Concrete, a leading provider of ready-mixed concrete in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas. The move strengthens LafargeHolcim’s existing operations in one of the most attractive and biggest ready-mixed concrete and aggregates markets in the USA.
Jan Jenisch, CEO of LafargeHolcim, said: “The acquisition of Tarrant Concrete follows our Strategy 2022 – ‘Building for Growth’ by capturing growth opportunities in our most attractive markets. By being highly complementary to