Quarry Products

The asphalt and concrete plant of the Kemerovo region (Siberia) has won a tender for quarrying sand at Bezmenovo quarry and rock at Stary Shalay quarry in the region.

The plant bought the licenses for RUB 176,750 (€3,677.04) and RUB 97,480 (€2,027.93). The nominal opening bids were RUB 135,960 and RUB 81,240, respectively. The plant's bid beat that of Kommunalnoe Snabzhenie Procurement Centre's.

The UK aggregates industry continues to be unable to replenish its output with new reserves. In sand and gravel, less than half of 2013’s production was replaced in terms of consents for new reserves during the year.

This is one of BDS Marketing’s conclusions from its analysis of planning applications and consents in the aggregates industry.

Commenting on its findings, director Julian Clapp said: “Only in the East Midlands did we find that companies were able to fully replace the amount of sand and g

FLSmidth, the Danish-based company, has reported its first full-year net loss for over ten year and saw cement orders fall by 26% despite a strong increase in the final quarter of 2013.

Reporting a net loss of DKK784 million (€105 million) for 2013 compared with a net profit of DKK1.3 billion (€174 million) in 2012. The company's overall order intake decreased 25% to DKK 20,911 million compared to DKK 27,727million the year before. The order backlog fell 24% to DKK 22,312 million) (end of 2012: DKK 29,45

The US Portland Cement Association (PCA) has named Mark J. Anderson as group vice president of public affairs where he will be the key PCA government affairs representative, responsible for the overall direction and execution of legislative and regulatory initiatives in support of the association’s advocacy and promotion.

“Mark will take the lead in shepherding the association’s legislative and regulatory efforts and in developing key policies and strategies,” says Gregory M. Scott, PCA president and C

The State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosstat) reports 28.418 millon m³ of ready-mix concrete produced in the country in 2013, which is 5.8% more than in 2012 and 14.8% more than in 2011.

The growth was spurred by the growing number of construction projects and the boost in cement production. The biggest growth of RMC production was reported in the Urals Federal District of Russia (27.9% up).

The State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosstat) reports 66.3 million tonnes of cement produced in 2013, which is 7.7% more than in 2012 and 17.9% more than in 2011.

The growth was spurred by the launch of new production plants with an overall production capacity of 7.3 million tonnes. For instance, BaselCement launched Serebryanskiy Cement Plant (1.8 million tonnes/year) in the Ryazan region (Central); Eurocement Group launched a cement plant (3 million tronnes/year) in the Voronezh region (Central), an

In a recent interview, the executive vice-president of finances and administration at Mexican cement company Cemex, Fernando Gonzalez, revealed that the company will invest US$645 million (€474.57 million) in fixed assets in 2014, $25 million above the investments made in 2013, including $505 million in maintenance and $140 million in strategic assets. Cemex put the cost for aggregates and cement up by 8% in January 2014, and it predicts sales of concrete, aggregates and cement will grow between 4%-6% in 20