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LafargeHolcim and employee representatives in Europe have renewed their commitment to social dialogue by establishing the new European Works Council (EWC). The EWC will bring together representatives from some 19 countries with senior leaders from LafargeHolcim and constitutes an important forum for consultation and dialogue at a transnational level.

The EWC was officially established today based on an agreement signed by Eric Olsen, CEO of LafargeHolcim and Executive Committee members Caroline Luscombe,

British Precast, in conjunction with the Precast Flooring Federation (PFF), has published a third party-verified BS EN15804-compliant generic hollowcore flooring Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).

The EPD covers a generic 1m² of 150mm deep precast hollowcore flooring and incorporates data from members of the PFF. The EPD was verified and published on the 8 March, 2017 and is valid for 5 years. The publication of the EPD also signifies an important milestone in the wider British Precast EPD project.

The Nigerian federal government has officially confirmed that the country has attained self-sufficiency in the production of cement and is now an exporter of the commodity.

It ascribed the feat to Dangote Cement which is said to have spearheded spare headed the integration policy introduced by the government.

Onne Van der Weijde, group managing director of Dangote Cement, presenting the financial results of the company for 2016, said the company had started cement exports to Nigeria’s neighbouring cou

Aggregate Industries, through its Bennett’s Barges business, has secured the contract to move spoil away, by river, on the western section of the £4.2 billion (€4.81bn) Thames Tideway Tunnel project.

The Thames Tideway Tunnel, financed and delivered by Tideway, is a 25km tunnel that will tackle sewage discharges into the River Thames in Southeast England. Running from Acton in west London to Beckton in the east, the project has been divided into three construction sections (west, central and east), each

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has welcomed measures announced in the British Government’s recent Spring Budget. The measures include the freeze on the Aggregates Levy indexation for 2017-2018 and proposals for a new set of controls on energy policy costs to replace the Levy Control Framework, alongside other plans to encourage investment, promote trade, and secure the availability of skills.

Confirmation in the 8th March announced Spring Budget that the Aggregates Levy will be frozen at a rate

Construction materials supplier Hanson is planning to invest £12 million (€13.7 million) at its Victoria Deep Water Terminal on the River Thames at Greenwich, South East London to upgrade and improve the site. A planning application has been submitted to the Royal Borough of Greenwich along with a full environmental impact assessment.

The Victoria Deep Water Terminal on the north-west side of the Greenwich peninsular off Tunnel Avenue is an important strategic site which is safeguarded as an industrial

Despite an overall decline since the start of the century, the total volume of aggregates handled at rock wharves in Great Britain has gone up in the last year.

There has also been an increase in the number of operating rock wharves suggesting the sector is on the increase, reports BDS Marketing Research.

These are some of the findings of a new sector report, published for the first time by BDS, entitled Estimated landings of aggregates at rock wharves.

“In the last two years, companies operating r