HeidelbergCement
HeidelbergCement has sold, or agreed the sale of, a number of assets. These include a 50 per cent interest in Ciment Quėbec, land in the Cairo area that used to have a cement w...
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Lafarge under investigation over ISIS funding
Lafarge SA was charged on Thursday with crimes against humanity for funding Islamic State in Syria. The company was informed by magistrates that it had been placed under formal...
Former LafargeHolcim CEO placed under formal investigation
The former chief executive of Franco-Swiss cement group LafargeHolcim Ltd, Eric Olsen, was placed under formal investigation on Thursday as part of an inquiry into the group's ...
France to investigate LafargeHolcim Syrian activities
France has launched a judicial inquiry into the Syrian activities of cement and construction group LafargeHolcim, a judicial source told Reuters on Tuesday, investigating "the ...
LafargeHolcim admits making ‘unacceptable’ payments to Syrian armed groups
LafargeHolcim has released details of an internal investigation into the conduct of its employees running the Jalabiya cement works up to 2014. The investigation was launche...
Lafarge Algeria to export clinker from 2018
Lafarge Algeria is preparing to export grey clinker from its local plants from 2018. The group already exports white cement from its Oggaz plants in the Mascara wilaya. "It ...
Aleppo cement plant back under Syrian army control
The Syrian army succeeded in reclaiming a cement factory in the southern countryside of Aleppo city on Tuesday, and is now purging the terrorists from the surrounding areas of ...
Syria: Lafarge protected interests from ISIS
According to French newspaper Le Monde, Lafarge entered into deals with armed groups in Syria, including the Islamic State, to protect its staff and business interests in the c...
Syria: IS kidnaps 300 Al Badia cement workers
Some 300 employees and contractors of the Al-Badia Cement plant have been abducted by Islamic State (IS) militants in Dumeir, some 30km northeast of the Syrian capital, Damascu...
Lafarge's final full year turnover and EBITDA in decline
Lafarge's turnover eased by 1.9 per cent to EUR12,843m in 2014 and the EBITDA came off 2.6 per cent to EUR2721m, having fallen by 9.4 per cent in 2013. Including share of assoc...