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Lafarge one step closer to completing US refocus

Lafarge announces the sale of five aggregates quarries and related assets in Maryland (USA) to Bluegrass Materials for a total enterprise value of US$320m. With these divestments, the group has no...
News - 10 January 2014

CRH full-year development spend

CRH announced a total of seven acquisitions and investment initiatives in the second half of 2013, taking full-year development activity to EUR0.69bn. The company invested EUR0.22bn in the six mo...
News - 07 January 2014

TCC retains top six slot in China

Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC), one of Taiwan's top cement manufacturers, has retained its position as China’s sixth largest cement producer by capacity. Last year, Taiwan Cement had production capacit...
News - 07 January 2014

Hope Construction celebrates first anniversary

Hope Construction Materials, the UK’s newest cement and concrete supplier, today celebrates its first anniversary having opened for business in January 2013 following the purchase of over 150 form...
News - 06 January 2014

Dujiangyan Lafarge Cement stake to be acquired

Sichuan Shuangma Cement plans to issue 148m shares to Lafarge China Overseas Holding at CNY832m (US$137.4m) to acquire a 25 per cent of Dujiangyan Lafarge Cement. Lafarge China currently holds...
News - 03 January 2014

EAPCC in spat with CMA over Lafarge appointment

East African Portland Cement Company (EAPCC) has gone to court, seeking to lift the suspension of its annual general meeting resolutions by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), according to a repo...
News - 31 December 2013

Lafarge sells minority stake in gypsum operations

Lafarge is to sell its remaining 20 per cent minority stake in its European and South American gypsum operations to Belgian building materials group Etex for an immediate cash consideration of EUR...
News - 30 December 2013

CCI approves UltraTech acquisition of Jaypee’s Gujarat assets

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has given UltraTech Cement the green light to purchase Jaypee's cement facilities in Gujarat. The CCI order, released on Monday, said that the “proposed ...
News - 24 December 2013

Lafarge Republic to acquire property at Manila Harbour Centre, Philippines

Lafarge Republic is set to purchase a property it currently leases in Manila’s port area to improve the sale and distribution of its products. The cement producer will also purchase the cement si...
News - 23 December 2013

Bangladesh awaits more funds

Bangladesh’s has a fragmented cement sector with a multitude of independent grinding units, making it one of the most competitive markets in the world. It has no abundant, natural-lying domestic l...
Articles - 23 December 2013