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Weather and currencies depress CRH

The Dublin-based building materials group CRH plc produced a 2.6 per cent increase in turnover to €11,079m, in spite of adverse exchange rate movements, particularly the US dollar followed by the ...
News - 03 March 2004

Group ’not supplying’ cement for West Bank barrier

CRH has firmly denied that Israeli group Mashav, in which it owns a 25 per cent shareholding, is supplying cement or concrete to the security barrier being built by Israel in the West Bank. The Pa...
News - 03 March 2004

Ireland – CRH benefits from CO2 emissions plan

Under the new draft allocation plan for carbon dioxide emissions, published by the Environmental Protection Agency, CRH will be allowed to emit nearly 2.4Mt of CO2 from its four cement works. ...
News - 24 February 2004

Amnesty asks CRH to explain

The human rights group, Amnesty International, has called on the Irish company, Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH), to state its position on Israel’s construction of a giant wall along the Israeli-oc...
News - 19 February 2004

CRH stays silent on Portugal expansion

CRH was not willing to comment yesterday on a Sunday Business Post report naming it as one of a number of parties considering an offer for a 41 per cent stake in Secil, Portugal’s second largest c...
News - 17 February 2004

Eco-cement to hit CRH profits

CRH stands to lose Euro10m a year as a result of new government measures to make up to 25 per cent of all cement used in state-funded projects more environmentally friendly.  Draft proposals being...
News - 26 January 2004

Feldschuh named head of Nesher

Yoel Feldschuh has been appointed CEO of the Nesher cement monopoly. The firm’s board of directors has approved the appointment, and Feldschuh will take over on February 2, replacing Herzl Ozer, wh...
News - 26 January 2004

Bidders For Portuguese Secil seek larger stake

Brazilian industrial conglomerate Votorantim, Italian diversified holding company Caltagirone and Irish industrial and trade group CRH which were shortlisted for the acquisition of the 41.6 per ce...
News - 26 January 2004

Ireland - €10m environment-friendly blow to CRH

New government measures to make up to 25 per cent of all cement used in public projects more environment-friendly could deliver a €10m blow to CRH. Draft proposals, which aim to push annual CO2 em...
News - 25 January 2004

Argentine Cerro Negro to invest

Argentine construction company Cerro Negro, owned by CRH, announced an investment plan, totalling US$10m aimed at expanding activity, it was reported on January 13, 2004.  With this initiative, the...
News - 15 January 2004