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HAZEMAG & EPR wins three new MEA cement contracts

Materials processing and crushing specialists HAZEMAG & EPR has received a trio of orders in the Middle East and Africa during the third quarter of this year. El Arish's new production line in E...
News - 17 October 2014

Maruxa Suarez is new Lafarge Villaluenga plant director

Maruxa Suarez has been appointed as the new plant director of Lafarge’s Villaluenga de la Sagra works in Toledo, Spain. She replaces Mariano Garcia Hoyos, who was appointed industrial director o...
News - 17 October 2014

Cemtech Europe 2014

The stunning city of Istanbul, Turkey, played host to Cemtech Europe 2014 over 29 September - 1 October, attracting an audience of 320 delegates from 35 countries. Supported by the Turkish Cement ...
Articles - 16 October 2014

Holcim and Lafarge to identify non-core assets in India for divestment

Holcim and Lafarge have begun an internal process in India to identify assets which have to be divested to adhere to the requirements of the country’s Competition Commission. Two sources famili...
News - 16 October 2014

UltraTech to bid for Lafarge Holcim assets?

UltraTech Cement is reportedly eyeing cement assets being put on the block by Holcim and Lafarge ahead of their planned merge Local press have speculated that the Aditya Birla group company is mo...
News - 15 October 2014

Lafarge and Holcim merger 'on track', set to request EU approval

Lafarge and Holcim are about to request approval from the European Commission for their planned merger, Lafarge Chief Executive Bruno Lafont told reporters on Thursday. "We are indeed very close ...
News - 10 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

SA watchdog puts condition on merger approval

The Competition Commission of South Africa has consented to the merger of  Holcim and Lafarge SA on condition that Holcim divests of the shareholding in Afrisam within three years of the approved ...
News - 09 October 2014

Powtech 2014 moves bulk solids forward

ICR visited Powtech 2014 in Nuremberg Messe, Germany, from 30 September to 2 October, to find out from some of the exhibitors that are focussed on the cement industry their news about the lat...
Articles - 07 October 2014

Lafarge Mahaweli to construct new Seychelles silo

Lafarge Mahaweli Cement has contracted Dynamic Technologies, a Sri Lankan contractor, to develop a 4000t cement silo in the Seychelles. Dynamic Technologies has enjoyed a long association with L...
News - 07 October 2014