Europe & CIS

Cementir Holding reported a fall in like-for-like earnings in 1Q18, as the company outlines a three-year plan to 2020 concentrated on reducing debt.

CEMEX has announced that CEMEX Croatia is contributing building materials to Montenegro’s infrastructure boom.

Hallamshire Engineering Services has won a contract with Roltech Mechanical Ltd in Newcastle-under-Lyme to supply pulleys for conveyors on a new 2000 TPH ballast washing system.

German companies HAVER & BOECKER and WINDMÖLLER & HÖLSCHER plan the founding of a joint company specialising in filling and palletising.

Vicat reported rising sales volumes and revenues in 1Q18, despite the continued appreciation of the euro.

German company, DURAG, has completed the acquisition of AP2E, a developer and manufacturer of industrial gas analysis systems.

Year-on-year cement production jumped by almost 45% in January 2018, according to statistics from the Turkish Cement Manufacturers Association.

Former Executive Chairman of Hope Construction Materials, Amit Bhatia, has been appointed non-executive Deputy Chairman of Breedon Group.

Prolonged and severe winter weather hit CRH’s 1Q19 performance in both Europe and the Americas, as like-for-like sales fell 2% on the previous year.

Claudius Peters has comissioned a turnkey silo and discharge equipment solution for the Port of Klaipeda in Lithuania.

FLSmidth is restructuring around two industries – cement and mining – a new regionalised structure for sales and services, and a centralised digital organisation

Prices for traded portland cement and clinker in the Mediterranean Basin and Persion Gulf-Arabian Sea regions are up slightly in April.

Feliciano González Muñoz, LafargeHolcim’s current HR Director for Europe, has been appointed Head of HR.

EMS Brüel & Kjær and envea™ (the new trademark of Environnement S.A Group) have announced a partnership.

Opposition is growing against Irish Cement's €10 million development which gives the green light to burn alternative waste such as used tyres and industrial solvent waste.