Europe & CIS

The Cement Sustainability Initiative will be moving from its WBCSD home to join the Global Cement and Concrete Association in London in January 2019.

The ORC will be installed at Cementi Rossi’s plant in Pederobba, Italy, and will recover exhaust heat from the clinker cooling plant.

InterCement expects to list its European and African cement operations next year in move it expects to raise €1.5 billion.

Lhoist Bukowa and Fives FCB have signed the acceptance certificate for a FCB TSV™ Classifier 1400 HF at a limestone grinding plant in Poland.

HeidebergCement reported a 4% rise in second quarter revenue as sales volumes grew across all product lines.

The strong euro has dented TITAN Group’s 1H18 results, weighing down turnover and earnings. Profits were higher, however, rising 11.1%.

LafargeHolcim has reported revenue growth of 6.2% in 2Q18, although higher costs weighed on earnings.

Hermann Trollius GmbH will increase capacity at its Lauterhofen lime plant with the support of Gebr. Pfeiffer.

HeidelbergCement Georgia has ceased production on one of its kiln lines, as domestic production is undercut by low-cost Iranian imports surge.

UK building materials company, Tarmac, a CRH company, is to restructure the distribution model for its cement business. The restructuring follows a strategic review of the company’s national model for bulk and packed cement distribution.

Swiss cement producer, Ciments, Vigier, has installed ABB’s digitalisation solution, ABB Ability Knowledge Manager, as its plant in western Switzerland.

Tarmac has lodged plans with the local council to upgrade its Dunbar cement plant in Scotland.

EUROCEMENT Group company, Kavkazcement, is to begin shipping its EUROCEMENT 400 SUPER cement in 50 kg bags, after the installation of a new bagging and palletising.

Irish building materials giant, CRH, has completed the sale of its DIY business in the Netherlands and Belgium, as the company continues to lower its exposure to the distribution market.

Opterra’s Karsdorf plant has begun a project to install a new SCR emissions control system in order to meet tightening German emissions regulations.