
European Commission approves UK compensation for indirect costs of carbon price floor
The European Commission has okayed UK plans to compensate certain energy-intensive users from higher electricity costs triggered by a mandatory carbon price floor.
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The European Commission has okayed UK plans to compensate certain energy-intensive users from higher electricity costs triggered by a mandatory carbon price floor.

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Estimates from Eurostat revealed that seasonally adjusted production in the construction sector fell by 0.6% in the euro area and by 0.5% in the EU28 in March 2014, compared with February 2014.

Eurocement has signed a number of contracts with the Sinoma, CNBM and Sinomach Groups for the supply of equipment to new cement plants in various regions of Russia.

Cemex UK won 13 awards at this year’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards.

The new dry process plant is located in the Kaluga region with good links to Moscow.

Hope Construction Materials is looking to appoint four new apprentices this year at its quarries in Dowlow and Holme Hall and its cement works in the Hope Valley.

Drafted EN standard published; Updated CSI Protocol V3.1 available; First emission reports in EU ETS phase III delivered.

The Board of Directors of Ciments Français has rendered its reasoned opinion on the simplified tender offer to be filed by Italcementi and recommends to the shareholders to tender their shares to the offer.

The Sustainable Industry Low Carbon II (SILC II) initiative has a budget of €20 million and aims to help EU industry cope with the climate challenge.

Cement consumption continued to contract in the Spanish regions of Andalucía and Cataluña in April 2014, although export levels grew in the latter.

Bernerd Terver will succeed Onne van der Weijde at Holcim; Siemens Financial Services appoints Kent Karlsson as the Sales Manager for Industry in Sweden and Denmark.