Quarry Products

The takeover of Cemex USA's Gypsum Supply Division has been successfully completed by US LBM Holdings, as per the announcement on 9 October 2015. Rosen Materials, the arm it is now part of, will be able to widen its capacity to serve homebuilders and contractors in its region.

French building materials supplier Vicat has reorganised its performance concrete products into four distinct ranges, which vary according to use and where destined.

The BVperf range covers the most commonly used concretes made from local raw materials, so as to reduce the environmental impact.

The Defiperf range is a high performance concrete used in roads, civil engineering structures and buildings.

Cemex has introduced its inclusive social and business programme portfolio in the Dominican Republic in order to improve access to housing, employment, construction and assisted self-construction activities, among other initiatives.

Global inclusive business manager Dulce Alejandre Mora has informed that the business developed the social responsibility programme due to the fact that there are 70 million people in Latin America who live in deplorable conditions and 11% have no titles to the land on which

Net profit of Qassim Cement increased 4% to SAR 445 million (€104.47 million/US$118.66 million) in the first nine months of 2015 from SAR 429 million in the same period of 2014.

The cement producer also recorded a 6% rise in profit to SAR 115 million in the third-quarter of 2015 against SAR 109 million in the same quarter of the previous year.

Dangote Cement of Nigeria has commissioned its new cement plant in Mtwara in Tanzania. The 3 million tonnes/year plant is the biggest plant in the central and eastern Africa, according to Dr Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of Tanzania.

The Rudny Cement Plant of the Kostanay region, Kazakhstan, has postponed its launch until 2016.

The project costs KZT 14.8 billion(€47.45 million/US$53.9 million), and KZT 9.7 billion has already been spent.

Lafarge's Egypt arm intends to invest US$16.8 million (€14.95 million) in a recycling project thereby expanding the total investment in the local Egypt cement market to US$3.20 billion (€2.85 billion) by the end of 2015.

The project is anticipated to start within six months of the receipt of the land from the government.

The company intends to expand its market share, which is presently calculated at 14%.

Forterra is the new name of the UK and US-based brick producer Hanson Building Products.

It has changed its name following a recent divestment by HeidelbergCement, its former owner.

The rebranding will not affect the company's subsidiary, Structherm.