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LKAB Minerals is set to acquire Francis Flower

20 November 2018, Published under Cement News

LKAB Minerals of Sweden is working on a deal to complete the acquisition of Francis Flower by 3 December 2018. The Austrian Competition Authority gave clearance for the acquisition on 10 October. Francis Flower operates a 0.55Mta grinding unit for ground granulated blastfurnace slag (GGBS) cement in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, UK. The company also has five main storage locations and a network of remote storage silos, which provides an additional 15,000t of cement storage. Adrian Willmott, ch...

CMA welcomes recent sale of UK plants

07 August 2015, Published under Cement News

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has welcomed the sale of plants by Lafarge Tarmac and Hanson. In the Competition Commission’s (CC) market investigation report published in January 2014, the CC had ordered Lafarge Tarmac to sell one of two cement plants and Hanson to sell one of its ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) plants to enhance competition in the cement and GGBS markets in Great Britain. Lafarge Tarmac and Hope Construction Materials Ltd (Hope) both appealed...

Francis Flower acquires Hanson Cement's GGBS unit, UK

04 August 2015, Published under Cement News

Mineral resources company Francis Flower yesterday announced the acquisition of the ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) facility in Scunthorpe, UK, from Hanson Cement. The business is capable of producing more than half a million tonnes of GGBS every year and supplies customers in the Midlands and North of England. GGBS complements Francis Flower’s existing range of high quality powdered minerals, which originate as by-products from various industries reducing the need for mineral ...