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Oyak Group eyeing Lafarge and Holcim assets

Oyak Group, Turkey’s largest cement producer, has US$2bn in cash for acquisitions and may spend some of it on assets Holcim and Lafarge are looking to shed ahead of their planned merger. The head...
News - 14 November 2014

CRH's nine-month results show growth

In its autumn trading statement, CRH said that turnover improved by three per cent in Europe and by five per cent in the Americas, or four per cent overall. EBITDA should be ahead by around 10...
News - 11 November 2014

Building despite uncertainty

While economic growth in the CIS has slowed in recent years, partly due to a cooling Russian economy, many of its cement producers can look forward to an improving operating environment as the reg...
Articles - 24 October 2014

Industry majors reportedly teaming up for LH asset disposals

CRH is reportedly teaming up with Cemex to bid for all the assets that Lafarge SA and Holcim Ltd will have to sell to secure the approval of European competition authorities for their proposed mer...
News - 09 October 2014

CRH reportedly selling brick business

Irish building materials major CRH is selling its clay brickwork division for up to GBP600m, according to reports in The Sunday Times. The move comes as the company prepares to bid for a group of...
News - 06 October 2014

Turkey: CRH and Eren Holdings plan sale of JV

CRH and its Turkish partner Eren Holdings have applied to Turkey's competition regulator to sell their joint venture, Denizli Cimento, to army pension fund OYAK Group, according to a statement on ...
News - 03 October 2014

Summit Materials in line for cement IPO?

Summit Materials LLC, which is co-founded by Blackstone Group LP, is preparing an initial public offering (IPO) this year as concrete deals intensify, according to sources quoted by Bloomberg. ...
News - 01 October 2014

Cohrs elected chairman of CTLGroup Board of Directors

The CTLGroup Board of Directors elected Cary O. Cohrs as chairman during the organisation’s recent autumn board meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USA “Cary Cohrs brings a wealth of construction-rel...
News - 30 September 2014

UK: Votorantim interest in Tarmac

Votorantim is understood to be planning a bid for a package of businesses being offloaded by Holcim and  Lafarge, in an effort to seal a GBP32bn mega-merger that would include Tarmac, one of Brita...
News - 29 September 2014

Turkey's confident approach

Cement demand in Turkey expanded at nearly three times the rate of the national economy in 2013 and producers remain optimistic about the future. As Cemtech Conferences & Exhibitions heads to the ...
Articles - 29 September 2014