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The first exports of 4,500tonnes of white clinker by cement company Cemex from the Spanish port of Sagunto will be shipped to Greece.

According to the company, white clinker exports account for 40% of the firm's total sales in Spain and it plans to export some 100,000tonnes of such product from Sagunto in the future.

Cemex's operations director in the region of Valencia, Carlos Moreno, pointed out the white clinker has become popular in certain parts of the world, especially in Africa, and the company

According to its new business plan, Italian cement and construction materials group Cementir expects its revenues to grow 5% a year on average in 2014-2016 to up to €1.15 billion, while its EBITDA should grow about 16% a year to up to approximately €240 million.

The company also expects to keep investing about €70 million-€75 million/year, as well as increasing its profitability and consolidating its activities, an operation that should enable the company to save €35 million.

Cementir is planning new

French construction materials group Lafarge has chosen Quintiq software to optimise its sales and operations planning as well as supply chain organisation in the global cement, aggregates and concrete industries.

The flexible solution can be adapted to meet the specific needs of each country. Real-time collaboration between planners will significantly improve the transparency and quality of the planning process.

The solution will enable Lafarge to cut production and transport costs while improving cus

In Poland CTL Logistics has signed an agreement under which its cooperation with Mota Engil Central Europe will be expanded by developing a plan to revitalise a railway siding at the Gorka mine in Gorka Sobocka, which eventually will be managed by CTL.

The siding is currently out of use, and this is said to force the company to transport the goods via road on an 8km section.

CTL Logistics has been cooperating with Mota Engil Central Europe since May 2013, and it is estimated that the cooperation will

Cemex Granulats Sud-Ouest (Cemex) has been granted authorisation to exploit an open air sand and gravel quarry in Saint-Cricq-du-Gave and Lahontan, France.

Cemex's extraction permit was initially annulled by the Appeals Court in Bordeaux in December 2010, but the case was taken to the Cassation Court before being approved by inter-prefectoral order, despite opposition from the Lahontan Council and L'Association de Défense et de Valorisation du Pays d'Abet.

Authorisation concerns 140hectares of existin

Despite recent economic uncertainties and governments’ efforts to reduce costs, road construction in Europe is still big business writes Patrick Smith.
While new road construction in certain countries may have been reduced, work is still being carried out as are repairs and upgrades.
Scheduled for completion in the summer of 2014 is a Norwegian project where contractor, Carl C Fon, has secured its largest-ever road construction contract to complete a 4.6km section of the E18 in the Mysen region.(The E18 E

Cement manufacturers are launching projects to install new cement works in Morocco despite poor market conditions.

The CEO of Ciments du Maroc, Mohamed Chaibi, believes that improvements in current demand are temporary, while Dominique Drouet, chairman of the board of directors at Holcim is reprted as anticipating a 12% drop in activity in the cement industry at the end of 2013 and expecting the decline to continue in 2014.

A cement works with a production capacity of 1 million tonnes costs an average

In Russia, Lipetskcement (part of Eurocement Group) produced 1.398 million tonnes of cement and 1.046 million tonnes of clinker in 2013 (23.3% and 2.6%, respectively, up on 2012).

A total of 178,000tonnes of packaged cement was produced (+19%). Cement CEM I 42.5N accounted for 644,500tonnes (+82.5%) and 1.41 million tonnes of cement was shipped to customers (+23.7%), including 896,000tonnes shipped by train (+37.3%).