Europe & CIS

The company has announced that it is acquiring a new floating bucket chain dredger in its Rogätz quarry, about 100 km southwest of Berlin.

To mark World Creativity and Innovation Day, the GCCA is announcing the expansion of its innovation programme, ‘Innovandi’ to encompass a new Open Challenge innovation accelerator programme.

As rationale behind the rating upgrade, Moody’s particularly highlighted HeidelbergCement’s resilient performance throughout 2020 and its strong cash flow generation.

The companies signed an agreement for FLSmidth to deliver the necessary plant modifications for the carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at Norcem Brevik in Norway.

The company has announced the first pouring of concrete sheets manufactured with its H-UKR cement by GCC for the construction of a public establishment in Aizenay, Western France.

According to the CPA’s State of Trade Survey, the pick-up in construction activity has been led by private housing, infrastructure and the repair and maintenance sectors.

Eastern Europe’s construction industry is forecasted to grow by 3.6% in 2021, following a 1.6% contraction in 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown restrictions, according to GlobalData.

After the introduction of the sustainable ECOPact concretes at the beginning of 2020, Holcim is now placing the ECOPlanet CO2-reduced cements on the building materials market.

S&P Global Ratings raised HeidelbergCement’s long- and short-term issuer credit ratings to BBB/A-2 from BBB-/A-3 and the issue ratings on its debt to BBB from BBB-. The outlook is stable.

Tarmac has committed to a 25-year partnership with the Port of Tilbury, London’s fastest-growing port, to build the UK’s largest construction materials aggregates terminal.

CEMEX's Corporate Venture Capital and open innovation unit has announced the launch of its 2021 Construction Startup Competition and its renewed alliance with Ferrovial, Hilti, VINCI Group’s Leonard and NOVA by Saint-Gobain.

The company has published its preliminary key figures for the first quarter of 2021. The company has stated that the preliminary Q1 financial figures deviate significantly from current capital market expectations.

The company has announced that it has been named US EPA ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for the third consecutive year, earning the 2021 Sustained Excellence Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Energy.

The company has announced that it will be joining a global initiative to develop OpenBuilt, a new platform designed to securely connect fragmented construction industry supply chains.

The company will take a step forward to complement its portfolio of products and services for sustainable urbanisation across the construction value chain.