HeidelbergCement announces Quarry Life Award winners of 2016
On 8 December 2016, the winners of the International Quarry Life Award were presented in Brussels, Belgium. This was the third edition of this bi-annual competition established ...
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HeidelbergCement and BirdLife International renew partnership
HeidelbergCement and BirdLife International have signed an agreement to continue their partnership until 2017. The world’s largest aggregates producer and the NGO leader in natu...
MPA and Bumblebee Conservation Trust re-affirm commitment to work together
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) have re-affirmed their commitment to work together through renewing their Memorandum of Unders...
HeidelbergCement honours International Quarry Life Award winners
The winners of HeidelbergCement’s International Quarry Life Award were yesterday honoured at an award ceremony held in Prague, Czech Republic. The Quarry Life Award was establis...
New species of snail discovered in Lafarge Malaysia limestone quarry
A new, presumed narrowly endemic species of snail has been discovered in a limestone quarry in Malaysia run by Lafarge. The new species of snail, discovered by Fendie Marzuki an...
IUCN launches biodiversity guide
The International Union for Conservation (IUCN), in cooperation with CEMBUREAU and other cement and aggregates industry associations, has published a new guide to encourage comp...
Holcim launches its 2013 Corporate Sustainability Report
Holcim today released its 2013 Corporate Sustainability Report detailing the Group’s ongoing activities in sustainable development and disclosing data on a number of key sustain...
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 ...
HeidelbergCement announces winners International Quarry Life Award
On 13 December 2012, the awards were presented to the international recipients at a ceremony in Heidelberg. The guest speaker for the event was none other than primate researche...
MPA wins biodiversity award, UK
The Mineral Products Association, UK, has won a CBI Trade Association Forum (TAF) Environmental Initiative Special Award, for the work of the Association and its members on Biod...