Holcim acquires General Beton Romania
Holcim has acquired General Beton Romania, a leading player in the Romanian ready-mix concrete (RMC) market with estimated 2022 net sales of EUR45m. The move is designed to expa...
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Schwenk Latvija opens new grinding plant
Schwenk Latvija has opened what it calls “one of Europe’s most sustainable grinding plants”. The new works at Brocēni was commissioned in June 2022 and took just 20 months to co...
Schwenk Latvija reports 5% increase in turnover in 2021
Schwenk Latvija has reported a 4.9 per cent YoY increase in turnover in 2021. The company's turnover reached EUR96.455m, while profit came in at EUR16.118m, up 31.9 per cent YoY...
Holcim to acquire Izolbet of Poland
Holcim has entered an agreement to acquire Izolbet, one of the leading players in the specialty building solutions market in Poland. Izolbet has delivered double-digit growth in...
Cement Hranice sees 4% uptick in net profit in 2021
Czech cement producer Cement Hranice , owned by Dyckerhoff AG, increased its sales by 13.4 per cent to CZK2.037bn (US$89.8m) in 2021 when compared with sales posted in 2020. The...
Serbian cement industry faces fuel challenge
Serbia’s cement industry is being considerably impacted by the Russia-Ukraine war as the sector depends on high-calorie coal imports from both Russia and Ukraine for more than 5...
Polish cement sales forecast to decline
Cement sales in Poland are expected to decline to 19Mt in 2022 from 19.3Mt in 2021, according to the Polish cement association, SPC. However, the association predicts that sales...
Feeling the heat of mercury Premium
Cement kiln operators, particularly in cases of co-incineration, may feel the heat when considering upcoming government regulations regarding mercury emissions. Therefore, it is...
Rudnik Uglja to switch to cement production
Montenegro-based coal mining company Rudnik Uglja has said it will phase out its coal mining activities and switch to cement production. To achieve this change, which is in line...
Europe: invest, divest, assess Premium
ICR looks at how economies have fared across western, central and eastern Europe over 2020-21, and what action Europe’s leading cement producers are taking to not only recover f...