Europe & CIS

The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including cement, ended unchanged at 354 points.

Nominations for the bauma Innovation Award 2016 have now been made.

The Ing. E. Mantovani construction company, Padua, chose Buzzi Unicem’s SOLIDUR for the reclamation of the Vallone Moranzani landfill.

Siemens’ growing partnership with Hanson is bringing the cement and aggregates specialist benefits in energy saving.

Russia's biggest lender Sberbank has announced that it has acquired a 6.12% stake in Swiss-French cement giant LafargeHolcim.

Telestack has announced the appointment of Martin Dummigan as its new Managing Director.

The negative indicators seen at the end of 2014 were not overcome in 2015.

BIMCO expects transported volumes to diminish as they traditionally do from the fourth quarter to the first.

Tarmac has announced a number of operation and management changes.

HAVER & BOECKER has founded the company HAVER Automation, located in Munster.

TerraSource Global has announced the addition of a new warehousing facility in Russia.

Airia Compressed Air Solutions has been appointed as an authorised premier distributor for Atlas Copco’s range.

Sandvik has been included in The Sustainability Yearbook for the seventh time.

The Eurocement Group confirmed plans to build production capacity of PJSC Mordovcement.

CRH Group has awarded FlSmidth a contract for process and quality optimisation of 17 cement plants.