Construction news

The company has announced that its Board of Directors approved a 4% increase in its quarterly cash dividend, raising it from US$0.55 per share to US$0.57 per share on the company’s outstanding common stock.

According to Libya’s state news agency LANA, the cement transport ship NS Spirit has arrived at its port, carrying 4 400 tons of bulk cement.

The cement producer in Argentina has announced results for the three-month and six-month period ended 30 June 2020.

Lafarge Infrastructure has been awarded the Main Street/Dollarton Highway Interchange contract – the final phase of the US$198 million Highway 1 Lower Lynn Improvement Project in Metro Vancouver.

World Cement Contributing Editor, Paul Maxwell-Cook, outlines the impact of the pandemic on a struggling region.

GlobalData Economist, Moustafa Ali, comments on INSEE data which states that there will be a fall in construction output in 2Q2020.

The foundation has awarded grants to more than 20 different non-profit organisations across California to support struggling communities.

The full impact of COVID-19 on the UK economy is expected to spell uncertainty for the construction industry according to the Construction Products Association’s (CPA) latest forecasting.

The project has received the go ahead from the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy. WESTKÜSTE100 will allow preparations to be made for an environmentally friendly (oxyfuel) combustion process for the Lägerdorf cement plant.

Within the first seven months of 2020, the enterprises of Eurocement group shipped abroad 329 000 t – a record volume of cement.