Europe & CIS

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.

Martin Engineering, a bulk material handling solutions provider, is expanding its existing operations in the UK and Scandinavia.

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.