UK cement news

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has expressed competition concerns over Breedon’s purchase of certain Cemex assets.

A team from Tarmac’s South East Contracting business has been able to give back to its local community by repairing a community playground in Burham, Kent.

Every construction sector in Great Britain has shown at least 33% growth in July, compared to June, with up to 98% growth in certain sectors.

Building materials supplier CEMEX has proposed redundancies of the cement logistics employees based at its South Ferriby Cement Plant.

The company has been given the Silver Employment Recognition Scheme (ERS) award by the Ministry of Defence.

Waste Knot Energy has secured funding from Gresham House’s British Strategic Investment Fund (BSIF) to build its first fuel pelleting plant in Middlesbrough.

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 latest statistics released by the Mineral Products Association (MPA) show that sales of heavy-side building materials saw unprecedented declines during the second quarter of the year.

A total of 39 deals worth US$2.73 billion were announced in Q2 2020, compared to the last four-quarter average of 65 deals.

The company has announced the completion on 31 July 2020 of its acquisition of certain assets and operations from CEMEX, as announced on 8 January 2020.