European cement news

CRH has reported a jump in pre-tax profits in 2016 on positive market trends and the integration of past acquisitions into its results.

Elkon has provided a compact concrete mixing plant to a Polish company.

Inform Software has been chosen as part as the German delegation for the GACC.

HeidelbergCement has appealed a decision by the European Commission to open an investigation into the purchase of Cemex Croatia by its subsidiary, Duna Dráva Cement.

Cressall Resistors rebuilt a three-section resistor for a limestone crusher as Ketton cement plant within a week, helping to maintain uninterrupted production at the plant.

Buzzi Unicem achieved growth in cement and clinker sales in Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in 2016, slightly offset by lower average selling prices.

Geocycle’s Spanish waste management plant saw production of alternative fuels for its parent company, LafargeHolcim, increase 25% in 2016.

Ireland-based cement producer, Quinn Cement, has opened a new export hub at Warrenpoint Harbour.

A €299.9 million impairment charge on FCC’s cement business, Cementos Portland Valderrivas, saw the Spanish group’s loss widen to €165.2 million.

Growth in the UK construction sector slowed in January 2017, according to the latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers Index, but sentiment remained positive.