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Cemex says it has strengthened its position in the world leader of concrete paving by winning the prestigious innovation award at the National Ready-Mix Concrete Federation’s National Roads Competition in France.

The company was recognised for the redevelopment of the roads of the Gardanne town Centre in south-east France.

Cemex’s specialty concrete and aggregates provided the ideal solution for the ambitious aesthetic vision of renowned architect Philippe Ghezzi.

The CW Group’s twice-yearly cement demand, capacity production outlook published in the Global Cement Volume Forecast Report (GCVFR) predicts that global cement demand will pause in 2014 at 3.9% year-on-year, following a stronger-than-expected 2013.

In 2013, global cement demand expanded 6.6% to 3.99 billion tons on surging Chinese demand, but growth will moderate 3.7%/year on average through 2018.

Even though we believe ex-China growth remaining positive beyond 2014, the shape of the growth curve fl

China's cement output in 2013 rose by 9.57% year-on-year to 2.41 billion tonnes, up from 2.18 billion tonnes in 2012.

Only Shanghai, Liaoning and Hebei reported negative growth with Shanghai down by 5.65%.

The cement sector posted a total profit of CNY 76.60 billion (€9.15 billion/US$12.57 billion) in 2013, up 16.4% from CNY 65.7 billion in 2012 but still down from CNY 102 billion in 2011.

In 2014, Rrasnoyarskiy Cement (part of SibCement group) is going to spend RUB 257 million (€5.27 million) on repair of its equipment.

The plant's cement mills will undergo major repair one by one.

When one of the mills is repaired, performance of the others will be boosted so that the plant could retain its usual volume of production. The plant's three rotary kilns will also be repaired.

Cemex will provide concrete that will be used on renovation works at the Parliament building in Budapest.

The company will supply 17,000m³ of a special concrete for these works.

Holcim’s board of directors is proposing to the annual meeting on 29 April, 2014 the election of Wolfgang Reitzle as the new chairman to succeed Rolf Soiron who has been the chairman for the past 11 years and a member of the board of directors for 20 years.

Thanking Rolf Soiron for his many years of service to the group as well as all his efforts, which were instrumental to Holcim's success, the board also thanks Erich Hunziker and Andreas von Planta for their many contributions to the group. They are n

The PAN Institute of Fundamental Technological Research; NCBJ Institute of Ceramics and Building Materials and the Hydrobudowa-1 company are starting a 3.2 million PLN (€769,000) joint research project to modernise concrete radiation shields.

The project is welcomed by all companies that are likely to participate in development of the first nuclear power plant in Poland.

The objective of the project is to develop a new technology for producing concrete shielding with improved functionality. The techn

CRH is sounding an optimistic note as it presents its 2013 results for the year to 31 December.

“The review of our portfolio announced in November 2013 aims to re-set the group for growth. While this has resulted in significant non-cash impairment charges, we believe that dynamic allocation and reallocation of resources to optimise the portfolio, together with our traditional tight cost control and capital discipline and our relentless focus on returns, will be key to driving growth and to rebuilding ret