Martin Marietta Materials boosted by Texas Industries
Martin Marietta Materials, including Texas Industries from mid-2014, saw turnover increase by 34.2 per cent in 2014 to US$2958m and the EBITDA of US$631.2m was 59.9 per cent hig...
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Holcim
Holcim completed the purchase of Cemex’ cement and aggregates assets in western Germany along with 59 batching plants in Germany and a further six in The Netherlands, while disp...
Concrete, air and aggregates Premium
The design of a good-quality concrete mix depends on a number of factors: the right balance between cement and water used, avoiding excessive air entrapment and the use of suita...
Breedon: from the ground up Premium
Breedon Aggregates has established itself as a successful player in the UK building materials market over a short period of time. It is the largest independent aggregates busine...
Vulcan expands through acquisitions, USA
Vulcan Materials Company, the biggest construction aggregates producer in the US, completed six acquisitions during its third quarter to expand its aggregate operations. These c...
Adelaide Brighton downstream acquisitions, Australia
Adelaide Brighton Ltd has acquired two integrated aggregates and readymix concrete businesses, one in South Australia and the second in Queensland, progressing its long-term ver...
Cemex quarries win European biodiversity awards
Two Cemex quarries, Rugeley in the UK and Soto Pajares in Spain, have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to biodiversity at the European Aggregates Association ...
The strength of recycling Premium
One of Latin America’s leading cement producers, Argos has been working on a pilot project for the collection, separation, classification and trituration of Construction and Dem...
Lafarge sells aggregate quarries in Georgia
Lafarge announces it has signed binding agreements for the sale of six aggregates quarries in Georgia (USA) for a total enterprise value of US$160m. These assets represent less ...
Martin Marietta violated confidentiality agreement, judge rules
Delaware Judge Leo Strine has ruled that Martin Marietta violated a nondisclosure agreement with Vulcan and used confidential information in forming its USD5.3bn bid and proxy f...