Europe & CIS

Wärtsilä is supplying a 6-cylinder Wärtsilä 34DF main engine for a new cement carrier being built at the Scheepswerf Ferus Smit yard in the Netherlands.

Preparations for the 2018 FIFA World Cup are expected to help increase the value of Russia’s infrastructure construction market, although the current political situation could dampen growth estimates.

Cemex UK is working with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on a 3-year conservation project at Cemex quarries in central England.

Pakistan’s DG Khan posted net profit of Rs.5.96 billion for the year ended 30 June 2014, an 8% increase compared to the same period a year earlier.

ABB has appointed Dave Hawley as Local Business Unit Manager for Motors and Generators in the UK; Justin McMath will take up the role of Product Manager – Concrete Mechanical Anchoring and Calculation Software at ITW CCNA.

Oficemen has released the latest statistics from the Spanish cement sector, noting that domestic consumption fell by 2% y/y to 7.1 million t in the first eight months of 2014.

Buzzi’s Dyckerhoff has purchased the 1.1 million tpa wet process plant in Korkino for an enterprise value of €104 million.

Further to the decision at the beginning of this year that Lafarge must sell another of its UK cement plants, which was subsequently appealed by Lafarge, the Competition and Markets Authority has decided to wait and see how the Lafarge-Holcim merger pans out.

UK firms comment on the ONS statistics for output in the construction industry in July 2014 and new orders in 2Q14.

UK construction output remained flat in July 2014 compared with June 2014, but increased by 2.6% y/y, according to the latest ONS data.

Eurocement’s Lipetskcement participated in the environmental cleanup campaign Green Russia on 29 – 30 August 2014.

New data from Barbour ABI shows that over £7 billion of planned construction works could be in jeopardy if Scotland votes to leave the UK.

The major players in the UK construction industry are set to meet next week to further their discussion on resource efficiency in the built environment.

Cross-party consensus on how best to deliver new housing and infrastructure projects could result in up to 200 000 new jobs in the UK construction sector.

EU antitrust regulators have approved Cemex’s proposed purchase of Holcim’s assets in Spain.