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Costain and Tarmac are celebrating after winning a prestigious national award recognising the success of their long-term partnership in building best-practice collaboration across the UK supply chain. The companies scooped the Supply Chain award at the 2017 Institute for Collaborative Working Annual Collaboration Awards at a ceremony held at the House of Lords. The awards celebrate the importance of collaborative working as a key factor for UK industry. It was the first time that this category has been won

China-based Anhui Conch Cement Company has become a founding member of the World Cement Association (WCA). The major Asian cement producer joins China National Building Material Group and China United Cement Rizhao Gangzhong Company as Chinese founder members of WCA. Drawn from 35 nations, WCA members have a combined cement output capacity of above 1 billion tonnes/year.

LafargeHolcim has reached a major milestone in building the largest retail network for construction materials in Latin America with the recent opening of its 1,000th Disensa retail store in Costa Rica. Since expanding its Disensa network beyond Ecuador in April 2017 the company has added around 500 Disensa-branded stores in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and Nicaragua. LafargeHolcim plans to continue its network expansion in Latin America by opening its first store in Brazil in early

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed the ‘From waste to resource productivity’ report, which was published by former UK government chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport on 14th December 2017. Bringing together evidence on waste from a range of industry, academic and government sources, and co-authored by Professor Ian Boyd, the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the report explores how we can treat waste as a valuable resource and

HeidelbergCement has signed a new €3 billion syndicated credit facility to refinance the existing credit facility, which would have expired in February 2019. Taking into account two prolongation options of one-year each, HeidelbergCement was able to secure historically attractive refinancing conditions until 2025. The credit margin was reduced by 20 bps to 35 bps points depending on the leverage. The new multi-currency credit facility is intended as liquidity back-up and can be used for cash drawdowns as

The Tunisian State and Bina Corp, the controlling shareholders of Carthage Cement, have decided to proceed, through a public tender, to the sale of majority stake (50.52%) in the company to a strategic and/or a financial investor who is capable to ensure its management and development.
Carthage Cement, a public company, specialises in the production of cement, aggregates and concrete, and its 2.2 million tonne capacity plant is located south-east of Tunis at the bottom of Djebel Rsas, a Jurassic limestone

Metso's fourth-quarter 2017 sales are estimated to total €710 million, an increase of 5% from Q4/2016. However, profitability of the Minerals segment came in weaker than expected, due to a higher than estimated share of equipment sales compared to services sales and a weak margin of the services business. Metso's adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITA) is estimated at €64 million, corresponding to a margin of 9.1% (Q4/2016: €64 million and 9.4%). Metso's fourth-quarter

Aggregate Industries has appointed Pablo Libreros as managing director of its aggregates division. The company is a leading player in the construction and infrastructure industries and is headquartered in Bardon Hill, county Leicestershire, central England. Pablo Libreros, who has vast experience in the industry, joined Aggregate Industries in 2017 as director of growth and innovation from the LafargeHolcim Group, where he was previously CEO for the Costa Rica business. Prior to this he held various senior