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According to Reshenie company, the ready-mix concrete market of St Petersburg, Russia, and the Leningrad region grew to 6.1 million m³ in volume and to RUB 20 billion (€410.12million) in value in 2013 (5% up on 2012).

The largest manufacturers are LSR (captures 16% of the market), TSK Beton (7%), Beaton (6%), LenStroyDetal (5%), Betonika (5%), Leader Beton (5%), Prommonolit (5%) and Molodoi Udarnik (5%).

Intesco Research Group estimates exports of cement from Russia to have reduced 10% in 2013. In January to June 2013, 73,000tonnes of cement was exported, mostly to Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.

In 2012, exports of cement shrank by 770,000tonnes compared to 2010. Experts attribute the fall to Russia's having entered the World Trade Organisation.

Cement consumption in Spain started 2014 with a fall. In January, demand was down 13.6% at 764,011tonnes, with the sector failing to show signs of a recovery.

In 2013, cement consumption was down 20%, marking the sixth year in a row of double-digit falls. It has been forecast that in the whole of 2014 consumption will be down by 7% to 8%. It is thought that domestic demand will be around 10 million tonnes for the year, with consumption per capita being 220kg per inhabitant.

Dutch company ENCI is to be allowed to continue producing cement temporarily even though the Raad van State did not approve its permit.

The province of Limburg has given it a temporary permit to give it time to carry out a new study into the effects of its production on the nature surrounding it.

In 2013, Kuwait Portland Cement's total assets stood at KWD 74 million (€190.76 million) by the end of the year, with a net profit of KWD 7.85 million recorded for its operation in the year.

By comparison, its assets had been KWD 72.10 million in 2012, while net profit had been lower at KWD 7.28 million.

Indian engineering consulting firm, HOLTEC has received a contract from Palestinian Commercial Services Company (PCSC) to do feasibility study for a cement plant costing €218.01 millionio in Palestine.

The plant is expected to have daily output of 5,000tonnes at the first stage and 10,000tonnes after three years.

According to the Reshenie consulting company, 10.7 million m³ of sand and 13 million m³ of gravel are annually produced in the Leningrad region (North-West).

In value terms, the turnover of the regional non-metallic material market is RUB 24 billion (€492.14 million)/year.

The leading local sand producers are LSR-Bazovye (46% of production), Gepard (18%), Kampes (10%) and Vuoly-Eco (9%).

FLSmidth has received an order worth approximately €42 million (approximately DKK 310 million) from Indonesian cement producer PT Semen Gresik for a greenfield cement plant with a capacity of 8,000tonnes/day. The new plant will be located just outside the city of Rembang in the north-eastern part of Central Java, Indonesia.

The order comprises equipment for the main part of the production line, including a raw mill, coal mill, pre-heater, kiln, burner, clinker cooler and silo equipment as well as a compl

According to US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, the use of warm-mix asphalt (WMA) is expected to create US$3.6 billion (€2.7 billion) in energy cost savings by 2020.

This estimate follows news that almost 25% of mixtures used during the 2012 US construction season were said to incorporate WMA technologies.

This is revealed in a recent survey, conducted by the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) and contracted to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), to measure the use of recyc

A crew of constructors currently working on a huge new hotel and office complex in Los Angeles, USA, has set a new world record for the largest continuous concrete pour, a Guinness World Records adjudicator says.

A total of 21,200 cubic yards of cement (16,208.6m³) was used during the weekend pour as part of the foundations for the new Wilshire Grand Center.

The 73-storey hotel is being billed as the tallest building west of the Mississippi and is set to open to guests in 2017. It will soar 1,100feet

In the UK, Hope Construction Materials has joined forces with Miller Construction in a ground-breaking deal to supply 20,000m3 of concrete to a major redevelopment in the city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, north-east England.

Miller Construction, one of the UK’s largest national providers of end-to-end property solutions, has chosen Hope to supply the concrete for all the building schemes that will make up the expansive Stephenson Quarter, a three-year, £200 million (€145.5 million) project, which is s

CRH has co-opted Henk Rottinghuis to the board as as a non-executive director. A Dutch citizen, he has a background in distribution, wholesale and logistics, and was until 2010 chief executive officer at Pon Holdings, a large, privately held international company which is focused on the supply and distribution of passenger cars and trucks, and equipment for the construction and marine sectors.
He is currently chairman of the supervisory board of Stork Technical Services which provides asset management serv

Case Construction Equipment has appointed a new UK dealer,CBL, a company based in the south of England, that will provide sales, parts and service from its sites in Bristol, Newbury and Maidstone.

This latest addition follows the recent announcement of a new dealership in Scotland.

As part of its commitment to this new collaboration with Case, CBL has strengthened its existing sales team to seven, and they will be supported by the company’s existing team of engineers who operate from all three sites.

The UK Mineral Products Association (MPA) results for 2013 indicate a good improvement in sales volumes of aggregates, asphalt and ready-mixed concrete in the final quarter and for the year as a whole.

For 2013 sales volumes of aggregates increased by 6% with concrete sales up by 11% and asphalt 4% higher than in 2012. Following a poor first quarter industry volumes started picking up in April and fourth quarter sales remained positive.

The figures reflect the sharp improvement in housing starts follo

Lafarge’s results for 2013 show that sales were down by 4% to €15,198 million (up 2% like-for-like), while EBITDA was down 9% to €3,102 million (up 2% like-for-like).

The figures to 31 December, 2014, also show that current operating income is down 14% to €2,075 million but up 3% like-for-like

At the same time, the figures how that while the 2013 results were up like-for-like, they were impacted by adverse exchange rates.

HeidelbergCement has increased its share in logistics company Kerpen & Kerpen to 100%, paying €23.5 million in the form of 416,477 new shares that were issued as part of a capital increase in return for contributions in kind.

In 1999, HeidelbergCement acquired 30% of the company, entering into a management contract in 2003 that reached the end of its minimum term at the end of 2013.

Now, Kerpen & Kerpen will be fully integrated into HeidelbergCement's business in Germany, constituting the core of the

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

Metso and Guangxi Liugong Group have obtained all necessary approvals from the Chinese authorities and the 50%-50% joint venture between the two companies has been officially established.
Headquartered in Shanghai, Liugong Metso Construction Equipment (Shanghai), will combine Metso's know-how in track-mounted crushing and screening business and technology with LiuGong's extensive distribution resources (~900 customer service locations in China) and manufacturing capabilities in China.