The company will supply the Maulini group with its clinker-free low-carbon cement based on its H-UKR technology to enable it to undertake major construction work in Switzerland including the Chêne-Blanc project, a 6-villa real-estate set in Onex, just outside Geneva.
The UK’s concrete producers will be represented for the first time in one trade association to help accelerate the industry’s journey towards beyond net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The company will be supporting the planting of another 1800 trees in the Yorkshire Dales this year thanks to their ‘People and the Planet’ initiative.
The company has announced that it has filed its annual report for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2020 on Form 20-F with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
The company has announced that net sales are up 7.4% and Recurring EBIT is up 131%, continuing the strong growth momentum of the last quarters.
The company has announced that it is acquiring a new floating bucket chain dredger in its Rogätz quarry, about 100 km southwest of Berlin.
To mark World Creativity and Innovation Day, the GCCA is announcing the expansion of its innovation programme, ‘Innovandi’ to encompass a new Open Challenge innovation accelerator programme.
As rationale behind the rating upgrade, Moody’s particularly highlighted HeidelbergCement’s resilient performance throughout 2020 and its strong cash flow generation.
The companies signed an agreement for FLSmidth to deliver the necessary plant modifications for the carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at Norcem Brevik in Norway.
The company has announced the first pouring of concrete sheets manufactured with its H-UKR cement by GCC for the construction of a public establishment in Aizenay, Western France.
According to the CPA’s State of Trade Survey, the pick-up in construction activity has been led by private housing, infrastructure and the repair and maintenance sectors.
Eastern Europe’s construction industry is forecasted to grow by 3.6% in 2021, following a 1.6% contraction in 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown restrictions, according to GlobalData.
After the introduction of the sustainable ECOPact concretes at the beginning of 2020, Holcim is now placing the ECOPlanet CO2-reduced cements on the building materials market.
S&P Global Ratings raised HeidelbergCement’s long- and short-term issuer credit ratings to BBB/A-2 from BBB-/A-3 and the issue ratings on its debt to BBB from BBB-. The outlook is stable.
Tarmac has committed to a 25-year partnership with the Port of Tilbury, London’s fastest-growing port, to build the UK’s largest construction materials aggregates terminal.