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High court halts Lafarge plans to close Frangey site, France

13 March 2012, Published under Cement News

The French High Court has blocked Lafarge’s plan to close its plant in Frangey, northern France until 25 November 2012. SeeNews France reports that the court has also annulled the group’s restructuring plan, but said the economic reasons for halting activity at the site were valid. Lafarge management will propose to staff representatives to resume negotiations for a new restructuring plan starting from November 2012. The Frangey facility employs 74. The Lafarge group had said its decisio...

Vicat sees generally favourable environments

06 February 2012, Published under Cement News

Vicat’s turnover increased by 12.5% last year to €2265.5m, which represents an underlying improvement of 9.6%. The turnover in cement improved by 10.1% to €1137.6m and aggregates and concrete sales rose by 14.2% to €818.0m. Other activities increased turnover by 17.4% to €309.9m. Cement accounted for 52.1% of turnover, slightly lower than the 53.0% seen in 2010, but exactly the same as in 2009. Group cement deliveries advanced by 11.5% to 18.04Mt, helped by a full year’s consolidation of Bh...