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CEMEX expects to supply 21,500m³ of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) to pave all of the roads for the new terminal of ALA Transportes, a division of Grupo Transportes de Monterrey (GTM)—the largest trucking company in Mexico.

LafargeHolcim is reportedly spending around €100 million modernising the Martres-Tolosane cement plant in south-west France.

Aggregate Industries, part of the LafargeHolcim Group and one of the UK’s leading construction materials suppliers, has appointed Mike Pearce as the managing director of its Aggregates division.

Maxoptra’s dynamic route planning and scheduling software has been implemented by LafargeHolcim (Russia) for time-critical cement delivery operations.

Veronafiere, organisers of the 2017 edition of Marmomac, says that once again the event will feature The Italian Stone Theatre.

Heidelberg Cement’s US subsidiary Cadman Materials, a part of Lehigh Hanson, has finalised the acquisition of Cemex’s Pacific Northwest Materials Business consisting of aggregate, asphalt and ready mixed concrete operations in Oregon and Washington for a purchase price of about US$150 million (€.131.5 million).

HeidelbergCement, the German building materials product giant, and Aachen University of Applied Sciences (RWTH Aachen) have begun a three-year research project exploring the absorption of CO2 from flue gas by olivine and basalt. In future, the carbonised minerals could be used as a value-added additive in the production of building materials.