EU Climate Commissioner visits Ecocem flagship plant in Dunkirk
EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra visited Ecocem ’s flagship production facility in Dunkirk , France, to highlight the role of low-carbon cement technologies in Europea...
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French court convicts Lafarge executives over Syria plant payments
A Paris court has convicted former Lafarge executives over payments made to armed groups to maintain operations at its Jalabiya cement plant in northern Syria. The case rela...
French court to rule in Lafarge Syria case
A Paris court is due to deliver its verdict this week in the case involving former Lafarge operations in Syria, where the company is accused of making payments to armed groups ...
Lafarge Martres-Tolosane to recycle biomass ash
Lafarge France ’s Martres-Tolosane cement plant (Haute-Garonne) will deepen its CO 2 -reduction and circular-economy efforts in 2026 with the commissioning of a new Geocycle...
Saint-Gobain reports 2% uptick in local currency sales in 2025
IN 2025 EBITDA remained stable at EUR7203m, but up 3.4 per cent in local currencies, and a corresponding margin of 15.5 per cent, remaining level YoY despite the negative curre...
Vicat sees 6% increase in consolidated net income in 2025
While Vicat's reported consolidated sales declined by 0.8 per cent to EUR3854m in 2025 from EUR3884m in 2024, on a like-for-like (lfl) basis they increased 3.3 per cent YoY. Sa...
Vicat wins French government grant for carbon capture project
Vicat Group has been awarded a Grand Projets Industriels de Décarbonation (GPID) grant by the French government to advance its VAIA (Vicat Advanced Industrial Alliance) deca...
TITAN Group completes Vracs de L'Estuaire acquisition
TITAN Group has completed the acquisition of Vracs de l'Estuaire, which operates a 0.6Mta grinding unit at the port of Le Havre, northern France. The purchase strengthens T...
CRH appoints Romain Mille as MD France, Benelux and Spain
Romain Mille has been appointed by CRH as Managing Director for France, Benelux and Spain, effective 1 January 2026. Mr Mille will assume the chairmanship of Eqiom, Stradal a...
Holcim acquires Alkern
Founded in 1972, Alkern has 1000 employees and more than 50 production sites in France and Belgium. Its net sales in 2025 are estimated at around EUR250m. Alkern's product r...