Europe & CIS

CRH has been offered the opportunity to acquire Belarusian state-owned cement company, Krasnoselskstroymaterialy.

Loesche, a leading company in the designing, manufacturing, and servicing of vertical roller mills, has sold 400 clinker and slag mills worldwide.

LafargeHolcim, a leading building materials company, has aided Russia's construction and reconstruction of key infrastructure projects, including eight of the twelve stadiums that will be used for the football tournament.

The Making Concrete Change: Innovation in Low-carbon Cement and Concrete report argues that although the sector has made some progress reducing its emissions, any progress made has been more than matched by increasing demand.

HeidelbergCement will use digitalisation, improvements in core markets, and asset sales to boots its free cash flow generation.

Colacem has finalised the acquisition of the Maddaloni cement plant from Italcementi.

The first phase of modernisation works at LafargeHolcim’s Martres-Tolosane plant has been launched.

Eurocement Group company, Mordovcement, has implemented a mobile monitoring system.

Gebr. Pfeiffer hosted almost 50 customers at a recent technical seminar in Antalya, Turkey.

Aggregate Industires has pledged its commitment to cracking down on modern slavery and labour exploitation in partnership with the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA).

CRH will group its Europe Lightside, Europe Distribution and Americas Products divisions into one new Building Products division, as well as exploring the sale of its Europe Distribution business.

Greek building materials multinational, Titan Group, reported a fall in earnings in the first quarter, as adverse weather and a strong euro hit results.

Most markets in northern Europe are well placed to benefit from the current recovery in cement demand, according to a new report from Cement Business Research.

The Global Cement and Concrete Association has named Albert Manifold as its first President, supported by CEMEX’s Fernando A. González and CNBM’s Jianglin Cai.

An international panel of expects will discuss climate action for the cement industry at the World Cement Association Global Climate Change Forum.