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Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has signed a strategic partnership with Viavilla, a French-based high-end real estate company specialising in the construction of villas on the Atlantic coast.

Metso has inaugurated its new screening media factory in in the Mexican city of Irapuato.

Lafarge Canada has announced its combined effort with nidus3D in supplying its OneCem low-carbon cement in Canada’s largest 3D-printed housing project, aimed at addressing the acute housing challenges faced by the SikSika Nation.

UK building materials and solutions provider Tarmac is now digitising its rail freight performance in the UK, through a collaboration with France-based software company Everysens.

Brazilian construction materials company Votorantim Cimentos has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Atlas Renewable Energy to be supplied with 100 MW of solar energy for the next 15 years.

A big increase in quality aggregates production and lower operational costs have enabled the Indian crushing plant major LSC Infratech to boost profitability at one of its state-of-the-art plants. Partha Pratim Basistha reports

The ECOCycle circular technology from building materials provider Holcim has been named a “Circularity Lighthouse in the Built Environment”, in a joint initiative between McKinsey & Company and the World Economic Forum announced at this year’s annual meeting in Davos.

O.C.O. Technology has begun the new year with a restructuring programme that has seen the creation of two distinct businesses – one focusing on U.K. projects and one on the international market.

Low-flying aeroplanes will soon be visible to eastern and central Alabama residents, northwestern Florida, and western Georgia. The survey will begin this month and continue until spring 2024, weather permitting.

Cemex and HSBC Mexico have announced a new social programme that supports and enhances women-led businesses in the Cemex supply chain.

Vagner Rego has been appointed the new president and CEO of Atlas Copco.

Holcim has closed three bolt-on acquisitions in Europe, expanding its Solutions & Products portfolio for green growth.

Chevron Singapore Pte Ltd, Keppel, Pan-United Corporation, Surbana Jurong, Air Liquide Singapore, Osaka Gas Singapore, and Pavilion Energy (together Parties) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on lower carbon opportunities to support Singapore's aspiration of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

A BGS essay on groundwater and drought has been included in the Environment Agency’s review of the research and scientific understanding of drought.

Heidelberg Materials North America has redesigned the bags for its packaged cement products to reflect its recent rebranding to Heidelberg Materials.

Heidelberg Materials says it has completed the sale of its capital-intensive French cement transportation business, Tratel S.a.s., to regional transport specialists Groupe Garnier in the North-West and Île-de-France region, e-b-trans in the South-East and South-West, Groupe DESERT in the West, and T2GL in the East of France.

Metso is consolidating its strong position in delivering tailored solutions to mining and aggregate customers through the continued expansion of its Life Cycle Services (LCS) programme. In 2023, Metso secured more than 110 new LCS contracts with global and regional mining companies as well as with sizable quarries and aggregate contractors.

Cemex has reopened a concrete plant that forms a key part of its portfolio in the Czech Republic, following a comprehensive development programme. 

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