Europe & CIS

A new Gypsum Quality Protocol is set to raise market confidence in recycled gypsum and increase demand for waste plasterboard.

The tracks of Jurrasic dinosaurs found in a quarry in Oxfordshire, England, in 1997 are to receive official protection

Camargo’s recent proposal to merge with Cimpor has been rebuffed by the Portuguese stock market regulator, CMVM.

One of Brazil’s largest private diversified companies is looking to buy a minority stake in the Portuguese cement giant

Nehlsen International, Bremen, Germany and MVW Lechtenberg & Partner, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, have signed a joint venture agreement to build and operate alternative fuel production plants.

Footprints belonging to unknown 397-million-year-old tetrapods have been discovered in a disused quarry in Poland.

CRH has released its updated statement for trading in 2009

At the conclusion of the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, countries are now committing to new targets concerning CO2 emissions.

On 17 December, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development led a meeting between business leaders and ministers from developed and developing countries to discuss the contribution of business in the global fight against climate change.

In the UK’s Pre-Budget Report 2009 it was announced that the climate change levy discount rate has been reduced from 80% to 65%.

Due to the current economic crisis and the situation in progress in the construction industry, Spanish cement producers have been obliged to take several measures in order to notably reduce costs. In light of this situation, Proquicesa decided to focus its R&D efforts on the development of an innovative family of grinding aids, adapted to the new requirements of cement producers.

B&W Mechanical Handling Ltd has supplied Samson TM receiving units for Cemex UK’s Tilbury cement grinding plant in Essex.

Permission has been grated to extract from the large coal deposits in the North Sea via Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology.

Chinese cement companies have signed up to the Cement Sustainability Initiative; marking an important step towards global recognition of sustainable development within the industry.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending CZK2 billion (approximately €73 million) to the Municipality of Plzen (West Bohemia) to implement priority urban regeneration schemes identified in the city’s 2004 Development Plan.