Europe & CIS

Climate change and energy-related policy will substantially drive up costs for UK cement makers, threatening the viability of UK cement production.

A bid from two German cement makers for Cemex Croatia is facing a European Commission veto on competition concerns.

HeidelbergCement has priced a Eurobond under its EMTN programme.

LafargeHolcim and employee representatives have established a new European Works Council, bringing together company management with representatives from some 19 countries.

Caterpillar has confirmed its intention to close its site at Gosselies, Belgium.

LBO France has entered into negotiations with Cinven for the sale of CHRYSO.

A consortium led by Sacyr Industrial has won an EPC contract to construction an integrated cement plant in Potosí, Bolivia.

Fives FCB, part of the Fives Group, has signed a contract to revamp the kiln at a refractory chamotte plant in Cherkassy, Ukraine.

Local politicians have attached a decision to approve Irish Cement’s plant to switch from fossil fuels to refuse-derived fuels at its Mungret plant.

Dyckerhoff Basal has installed two mobile concrete production plants at the entrance to the port of Amsterdam.

Titan Group recorded a significant increase in net profit in 2016 on the back of growth in the US and a recovery in Egypt.

Cemex UK is working with Exeros to trial new road safety sensors on HGVs.

Vortex Global has announced its partnership with LM Bulk & Materialhantering.

HeidelbergCement hopes continuous improvement programmes will help to offset an expected rise in fuel, raw materials and personnel costs in 2017.

The consolidation of Italcementi following its takeover by HeidelbergCement proceeded faster that anticipated in 2016 with anticipated synergy savings now hitting €470 million.