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Lafarge Ready Mix Nigeria has formalised its partnership with Construction Kaiser at a signing ceremony at The Moor House Hotel, in Lagos, Nigeria.

The agreement records a mutual understanding of partnership, in which Lafarge Ready Mix Nigerian (LRMN) will supply all of Construction Kaiser’s (CK) ready-mixed concrete needs across the west African country.

A market leader in quality concrete solutions, LRMN began operations in September 2011. Leveraging on LafargeHolcim’s experience, the ready-mixed ar

China-based cement maker Conch International Holdings (HK) Ltd (Conch) plans to increase its shareholdings in fellow Chinese cement maker West China Cement Ltd (West Cement) through a US$592.21 million (HKD 4.59 billion) investment.

Once the deal is completed, Conch will need to conduct a mandatory takeover offer for the shares in West Cement it does not already own, as the stake it owns will rise to 51.57%. Currently, it owns a 21.17% equity holding in West Cement.

LafargeHolcim plans to raise to raise €3.29 billion (3.5bn Swiss francs) next year selling cement assets around the world as the recently merged Franco-Swiss building-materials group adjusts to tough conditions in important markets like China and India, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The company announced the “portfolio review “ after missing third-quarter sales and earnings expectations as the stronger Swiss franc and lower prices weighed on its first results since its creation through the merger of F

Rapid International’s latest innovation, Trakmix, is a track-mounted, mobile and self-contained, fully weighed high-volume concrete mixing plant. The company says the unit was designed in response to the growing demand for a mobile continuous mixing plant “that provides easy, cost-effective transportation and eliminates the need for special transport permits.”

The Trakmix’s patent-pending features include a controls system that weighs all materials, and a double hopper cement weighing system. Other featu

Asphalt is widely regarded as the most recycled material in the world. In the United States alone, 73 million tonnes of hot-mix asphalt is recycled every year; Across across the Atlantic Ocean in the UK, one major highways maintenance contractor is more than doing its bit to maintain asphalt’s world-leading recycled material status, as Guy Woodford discovers.

Delivering the road maintenance contracts for 17 of the London boroughs, as well as holding the North-West contract for Transport for London’s (TfL