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CRH reportedly selling brick businessIrish 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 |
Asset maintenanceEffective maintenance management plays a key role in operational excellence. Major cement producers such as Lafarge have gained their market position as an result of improving their operations thr...Articles - 06 October 2014 |
LafargeLafarge has agreed the sale of its wholly-owned Russian subsidiary Uralcement to Buzzi Unicem for EUR104m and the proceeds will be used to reduce Lafarge's net debt. In May, Lafarge commissioned i...Corporate - 03 October 2014 |
Buzzi UnicemBuzzi Unicem is to acquire, through its subsidiary Dyckerhoff, the 100 per cent interest in Uralsement from Lafarge for EUR104m in cash. The deal, which still requires regulatory approval, is e...Corporate - 03 October 2014 |
BillerudKorsnäs wins Product Development award at Lafarge Global Supplier Awards 2014Lafarge has recognised the work carried out in close partnership between its Lafarge Research Centre in Lyon and the BillerudKorsnäs Sack Lab Sweden for the development of a new packaging solution...News - 03 October 2014 |
Alain Bourguignon, Marc Soule join Holcim's asset sale committeeHolcim, which is set to merge with French peer Lafarge in 2015, has named Alain Bourguignon and Marc Soule members of the asset sale committee. Bourguignon was so far in charge of Canada, UK and...News - 02 October 2014 |
Sri Lanka: Lafarge Mahaweli concludes Health & Safety monthLafarge Mahaweli Cement concluded its annual Health & Safety month recently, with a number of activities held at their factory premises located within the Colombo port, Sri Lanka. The theme of ...News - 02 October 2014 |
Germany: cautious optimismAfter a slip in cement consumption in 2013, the first seven months of 2014 saw cement sales in Germany rebound 7.6 per cent as the housing sector in particular delivered a strong performance. The...Articles - 01 October 2014 |
Holcim changes in senior managementUrs Bleisch, Corporate Functional Manager and member of Senior Management of Holcim Ltd, has been nominated member of the Holcim Executive Committee. He will keep his current responsibilities for ...News - 30 September 2014 |
UK: Votorantim interest in TarmacVotorantim 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 |