Europe & CIS

The MPA has appointed Martin Riley as its new Chairman.

The Portland Cement Association has announced the winner of this year’s John P. Gleason Jr Leadership Awards.

Market recovery in Ireland, France, Finland, and Poland, and a stable UK market, provided positive news for CRH European cement volumes.

Margret Suckale, formerly of BASF, has been appointed to the Supervisory Board of HeidelbergCement AG

KHD has received an order for the engineering and equipment supply of SOMA Cimento’s new clinker production line.

Hanson Cement has made two senior appointments within its bulk division.

CRH has announced its interim results for 1H17.

Hanson UK has extended its supply of building materials to the Hinkley Point C nuclear project with additional contracts for road building and worker accommodation.

CRH has reached an agreement to sell its Americas Distribution business.

A group opposing the cofiring of alternative fuels at Irish Cement’s Mungret cement plant in Ireland should be rejected because of the company’s poor environmental record.

Hanson UK will transport a surplus vertical roller mill from Spain for installation at its Padeswood cement plant in north Wales.

The outlook for Malaysia’s construction industry is brightening, offering hope to the country’s cement producers, after a fall in demand in 2016.

The shipment of limestone on the Great Lakes between the US and Canada rose year-on-year in July, but remains down year to date.

Construction industry growth in the UK will gather pace in the second half of the year to bring annual growth down to 1.4% - but brighter times return in 2018.

Loesche is supplying four mills to AUNDE’s new cement plant.