Europe & CIS

The VDMA Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery Association is looking forward to a stronger 2014, with incoming orders currently up by 7%.

Invitation to participate in our annual plant-by-plant, country-by-country World Review.

In light of the recent flooding in the UK, Toolstation organised a number of fundraising activities to support the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s Flood Rescue Team.

Construction materials production in Azerbaijan saw a 7.8% increase y/y in January 2014, compared to the same period in 2013.

Titan Bulgaria is among the companies to have been granted a permit to explore for building materials.

In December 2013, seasonally adjusted construction output grew by 0.9% in the euro area (EA17) and by 1% in the EU28, compared to November 2013.

Hope Construction Materials will supply concrete for a major redevelopment project in Newcastle, UK.

The Profi 75 TI and Profi 100 TI hoists have been launched by J D Neuhaus, offering SWL capacities of 75 and 100 t, respectively.

European associations with a stake in waste management urge the European Commission to ensure SRF and RDF from waste remain under the control of waste legislation.

The ‘Zero Accident’ programme Cemex introduced in 2007 has reaped results, with no incidents recorded across the company’s 65 sites in Spain in 2013.

A €2 million investment project at the Toral cement plant in Spain has enabled Cementos Cosmos to reduce energy consumption and increase efficiency.

Around 764 011 t of cement was sold in Spain in January 2014, representing a y/y decline of 13.6%, almost double the contraction rate forecast for 2014.

Mr Henk Rottinghuis joins the board of the Irish cement producer as a non-executive Director.

Buzzi Unicem and Wietersdorfer have entered into a strategic agreement involving the transfer of one or two cement plants in exchange for share capital.

Lafarge’s cement sales volumes reached 34.9 million t in 4Q and 136.8 million t in 2013.