Europe & CIS

Benjamin Sporton, current Chief Executive of the World Coal Association, has been appointed Chief Executive of the Global Cement and Concrete Association.

Eurocement’s Voronezh plant reported record monthly shipments in June, breaking the 0.2 million t mark for the first time.

LafargeHolcim’s UK subsidiary, Aggregate Industries, has been awarded a contract worth at least £500 million to deliver pavement solutions to Highways England.

Trade unions are being consulted on the transaction and its completion is expected over the summer.

Eurocement’s Nevyansky cement plant has completed an extensive maintenance programme, boosting productivity and improving the plant’s environment performance.

Lafarge SA has been placed under investigation by French authorities as part of the investigation into the operation of a cement plant in Syria.

UK building materials companies, Breedon Group and Tarmac, have completed an asset swap that sees Breedon acquire four quarries and an asphalt plant and Tarmac gain 23 ready-mixed concrete plants.

French solid recovered fuel manufacture Environnement 48 invested in a second UNTHA shredder to increase capacity to 10 000 tpy.

Joined by company employees, the management of Dyckerhoff Ukraine, partner companies, YUGcement customers and suppliers, and regional representatives from state authorities, Buzzi Unicem celebrated the 50th anniversary of the YUGcement plant.

The 2400 tpd Duna Drava Cement clinker line in Vác has been successfully re-commissioned and put into production in April 2018.

The first clinker was received on schedule at HeidelbergCement’s Burglengenfeld cement works in Germany in April 2018, after two years of construction.

Loesche is to continue development of processes to condition BOF steel slag for use as an alternative cementitious material, after winning a legal dispute over ownership of the technology.

Micromeritics Instrument Corp., a leading global manufacturer of products for advanced material characterisation, has announced the acquisition of Freeman Technology, a specialist in powder flow properties.

Hanson UK, a leading supplier of heavy building materials to the construction industry, has been awarded a £350 million contract for Cwmbran hospital in south Wales.

LafargeHolcim is supplying materials for the construction of the second Roche Tower in Basel, which will be Switzerland’s tallest.