Europe & CIS - 21 May 2014

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Estimates from Eurostat revealed that seasonally adjusted production in the construction sector fell by 0.6% in the euro area and by 0.5% in the EU28 in March 2014, compared with February 2014.

Eurocement has signed a number of contracts with the Sinoma, CNBM and Sinomach Groups for the supply of equipment to new cement plants in various regions of Russia.

Cemex UK won 13 awards at this year’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards.

The new dry process plant is located in the Kaluga region with good links to Moscow.

Hope Construction Materials is looking to appoint four new apprentices this year at its quarries in Dowlow and Holme Hall and its cement works in the Hope Valley.