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Sandvik Construction has staged its first ever customer day in Georgia.

Elite Motors, Sandvik Construction’s authorised agent in Georgia, hosted the landmark event, attracting more than 60 representatives from the government, universities, local and international companies.

The Elite Motors-led customer day followed on from a series of similar events held in Turkey and other parts of Georgia’s neighbouring region. Attendees at the Elite Motors event learnt more about Sandvik Construction’s products, a

CNH Industrial, home to the Case Construction Equipment brand, is to transfer production of its grader product line from Berlin, Germany to Lecce, Italy. Part of the on-going CNH Industrial Efficiency Program, the transfer concerns European manufacturing of graders, and wheeled machines for levelling ground.

In January-September 2015, the concrete products output decreased by 16.4% to 16.90 million m³, compared with the similar period of 2014. The most of the products were produced by the Moscow and Moscow region-based plants: 1.13 million m³ and 1.08 million m³, respectively. The Dagestan Republic (North Caucasus) was the leader in the growth rates (+50,000m³).

Saudi Arabia's cement consumption in January-October 2015 grew 8% to 50.2 million tonnes, according to a report by Aljazira Capital.

Cement dispatches in October 2015 totalled 5.13 million tonnes, for a growth of 18.2% sequentially and 26.2% year-on-year.

Further modest growth is expected in the short term as the construction market picks up after a labour shortage in 2014 and with new housing projects and continued government spending on infrastructure.

However, profit margins will be squeezed d

As part of the merger of Lafarge and Holcim, Holcim France, of which the cement plant in Lumbres was a part, was divided into Eqiom, now owned by Irish group CRH, and Holcim Haut-Rhin, which remains part of Lafarge.

CRH will retain the existing logo but adopt the brand Eqiom for the Lumbres plant.

There are as yet no plans for change at the Lumbres plant, which employs 125 staff.

Norwegian government-owned carbon capture and storage company Gassnova, and Norwegian manufacturer of cement Norcem, have entered into an agreement concerning a study about carbon capture that will be undertaken at Norcem's facility in Brevik.

The study will use technology developed by Norwegian oil company Aker Solutions. Gassnova will finance the study.

The study will investigate how a carbon capture facility can be integrated with Norcem's existing factory and how carbon dioxide can be handled and

In the third quarter 2015, Moroccan cement company Ciments du Maroc (CIMAR), which is owned by Italcementi Group, reported a 1.8% increase in turnover to MAD 823mn (€76.5 million/US$82.38 million), compared with the same period a year earlier.

This performance can be attributed to a 39.4% increase in sales of ready-to-use concrete and a 21.1% increase in aggregates. Cement prices were also up.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Crimea has called for bids for the right to explore and mine minerals.

The auction will be held in Simferopol on 25 December 2015. The closing date for bids is 4 December 2015.

In Russia between January-September 2015, the volume of crushed stone supplies by railway exceeded 97.34 million tonnes (-21.8% in Q1-Q3 2014; -28.3% in Q1-Q3 2013).

The upward trend in consumption of crushed stone delivered by railway was registered only in far east of the country at 5% to 2.8 million tonnes. All other regions reduced the consumption. the Central Federal DIstrict by 29% to 27.8 million tonnes; the North-Western by 28% to 7.58 million tonnes; Urals by 21% to 11.9 million tonnes; Volga b

From 1 December 2015, the current general manager of Holcim Romania, Francois Petry, will become the CEO of Aggregates Industries, LafargeHolcim's British division.

Petry worked for the cement manufacturer since 2014 and has previously managed the company's division in France.

Holcim Romania owns two factories, has up to 800 members of staff, while in 2014 it reported sales of around €217 million and a profit of €16 million.

CRH says that sales from continuing operations rose 16% to €15.5 billion in the nine months to the end of September.

The Irish building materials group said in an interim statement, following its acquisition of Lafarge and Holcim assets (as part of the LafargeHolcim merger), that third-quarter sales were up 14% versus the same period a year earlier. This was boosted by a positive impact from the group’s Americas business, where sales rose 23% in the July-September period.

During the first nine months

Lafarge Cementos has opened the public offer to Heracles Cement's shareholders for acquiring Heracles’ common nominal voting shares for €1.23 (US$1.31) a share, in cash.

Heracles is a Greek cement, concrete and aggregates company.

The offer, which was submitted for approval on 30 July, 2015, has been cleared by the Greek Capital Market Commission.

The offer will be open until 11 December, 2015, following which Lafarge will call a general shareholders' meeting to approve the plan for delisting Hera

Jane Whittle, who has been working for Iveco (part of CNH Industrial) as operational marketing manager for the past two and half years has now joined the Case team.

Working alongside Rick Morris, network development UK & Eire, she will be based at the company’s new UK headquarters in Doncaster, County South Yorkshire, England, and will be responsible for further developing and supporting the company’s dealer network, which has experienced considerable expansion over the past 18 months.

During her tim

Breedon has entered into a conditional agreement with Cortolina Investments to acquire Hope Construction Materials Limited for £336 million (€480 million).
The combination of Breedon and Hope will create the UK’s leading independent producer of cement, concrete and aggregates and a vertically-integrated building materials group.
The acquisition is conditional upon the approval of the UK Competition and Markets Authority and is expected to complete in Q2 2016
The acquisition is consistent with Breedon’s

Self-healing concrete is being trialled by a group of researchers from Bath, Cambridge and Cardiff universities in the UK.

The Materials for Life project is investigating three self-healing technologies that could eventually be individually or collectively incorporated into concrete as it is made.

It is claimed that self-healing concrete could significantly reduce the annual bill for repairing concrete buildings and structures.

The trial is investigating three technologies: shape-memory polymers,

A unit of Wijaya Karya Beton (Wika Beton) will be set up in Indonesia.

Of the some IDR 528 billion (€35.97 million/US$38.74 million) capital expenditure by the company, part of it would be used by Wika Beton for the new unit’s capital.

According to Entus Asnawi Muhson, the company’s finance director, a decision on the new subsidiary islikely to be made in early 2016,

The unit, which aims to cater to a rise in demand for moulds and precast concretes, will be located in East Java.

During July to

The Kolo milliona-based (the Moscow region) LafargeHolcim plant has begun production of the new cement base for mortars under the Kelma brand.

It is said to be characterised by high strength, fine adhesion to surfaces, and a long retention of mobility that provides for the mortar's plasticity necessary for construction works without adding extra water.

The product is being sold in 50kg bags.

Algerian construction material imports have receded by 27.4% in value to US$1.9 billion (€1.77 billion) and by 4.8% in volume to 8.39 million tonnes in the first three-quarters of 2015 compared to the same 2014 period, thus suggesting that the decrease is more due to a fall in prices rather than a genuine drop in imports.

Cement imports have fallen by 21.41% in value to $352.32 million, while they have only dipped by 2.11% in volume to 4.8 million tonnes.

Similarly, iron and steel imports have shrunk

According to Oficemen figures, cement consumption in Spain fell 2.4% to 1,025,120 tonnes during October 2015.

Consumption in the first ten months of the year rose 4.3% to 9,564,783 tonnes.

The Baselcement holding company's plants produced about 1.9 million tonnes of cement and clinker in January-September 2015, 12% down, compared with the similar period of 2014.

Almost 1.2 million tonnes of cement (+26%) was produced at Serebryansky Cement Plant in nine months.

Achinsk Cement doubled its high-grade cement supplies (PC 500-D0 and CEM I 42.5B) to 120,000tonnes. The plant increased the commercial clinker supplies 3.5-fold.